An attorney said the men who were transferred were not violent, and the transfers canceled education and mentoring programs.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Thurston County Judge Anne Egeler ruled that 43 offenders sent from a juvenile detention facility to adult prisons must be returned to the state’s juvenile detention center in Lewis County.
Dan Judge, the assistant attorney general representing the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families, argued the state needed to move the offenders, all men in their early 20s, to alleviate the crowding at Green Hill School.
Judge said the state reached a “tipping point” earlier this year when overcrowding caused an
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