Audit paints troubling picture of WA’s overcrowded youth prison system

OLYMPIA [Jake Goldstein-Street] — Nearly half of front-line staff at Washington’s overcrowded juvenile detention facilities leave within a year. Many report feeling unsafe, unprepared and unsupported.  That’s according to a sobering, if not shocking, audit of the state’s youth prison system that has faced years of issues stemming from trying to fit too many young people into facilities […]