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Children held in lockdown for weeks at a time, defecating in their cells, having their medicine withheld, being put in illegal restraint holds as staffers falsified incident reports to hide the suffering. These are the claims made in a lawsuit against the Adair County Youth Detention facility. 

The suit claims the teen’s cell was not cleaned and became an ongoing joke for staffers, including one who made a comment on her Facebook page under a meme saying, “bro, until you can walk past door 26, you don’t get to laugh.”