Colorado Justice System Locking Up Untried Youths, Depriving Them Of Education

DENVER- Juvenile suspects awaiting trial as adults in Colorado jails languish without education, sometimes held in solitary confinement while they wait for their day in court. The harsh conditions come partly as a fact of the state's more generally overcrowded prison facilities, where the young people are held in adult prisons, shunted into solitary confinement in order simply to keep them segregated from the adult population. State Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, told the Colorado Independent that young people held in these conditions have committed suicide.

"Kids are in a jail cell all day long for months and months and months," she said. "They're entitled to receive an education but no one has worked out how to provide that education."

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