Across the country, 116 youths at juvenile facilities have tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Sentencing Project.
“These numbers are untenable,” Levick said. “The public health crisis is something that has sent all of us home hunkered down, and yet here we are, allowing children and other incarcerated individuals living in group-living situations where the risk of spreading the contagion is just extreme.”
Other family members, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid drawing attention to their relatives’ cases, said they have received little information from officials about how their loved ones are doing. “I think that just makes them sad. It makes my son sad. He’s sad, he’s isolated, he’s anxious,” she said. “These boys have had some kind of trauma in their life. ... When my child says to me, ‘Mom, I don’t know how to stay well anymore,’ it breaks your heart because that should never happen to any child. We’re failing, and it is extremely upsetting to me as a parent.”
“The kids developmentally are in this sort of malleable state. They’re growing their identity, rehabilitating,” said Amy Walters, an attorney at the Legal Aid Justice Center. “If you’re in this psychologically traumatic experience where your health is compromised, that’s going to have ramification for the rest of their lives.”
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