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June 19, 2003
 CRIPA Investigation of Oakley & Columbia Training Schools in Raymond &
Columbia, Mississippi
This investigation found that conditions at Oakley and Columbia Training
Schools in Mississippi violate the constitutional and statutory rights of
juveniles as proscribed in the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons
Act (CRIPA). Youth confined at Oakley and Columbia were found to suffer
harm or the risk of harm from deficiencies in the facilities provision
of mental health and medical care lack protection from harm have
inadequate access to juvenile justice management be living in unsanitary
conditions lack adequate general education be forced to engage in
religious activities against their First Amendment rights.
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