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Mary Gay Scanlon: Since coming to Congress, just in the last two years, I have seen two juvenile detention centers in my district close…

On the recordMarch 25, 2021
Since coming to Congress, just in the last two years, I have seen two juvenile detention centers in my district close after widespread abuse of the children who had been housed there.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon highlights the closure of abusive juvenile detention centers in her district.

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