Children in need of mental health care are being locked up in detention facilities across the country, even when they have not been charged with a crime, according to a new report from Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s office.
The report is the result of a nearly year-long investigation, which found that one of the contributing issues is a lack of places for children to get proper mental health care in the community.
Some children in juvenile detention facilities are reportedly placed there to receive treatment, or kept there months after they could have been released because the care they needed was not yet available on the outside.
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