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Look out a window? You could be punished. Ask what time it is? You could be punished. Is your hand above your waist? Yup, punished.
Such is life for kids locked behind bars at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NORCOR), according to a new report from a Portland advocacy group.
Months after taking heat from civil rights advocates for keeping detainees of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in allegedly terrible conditions, The Dalles-based jail is under fire this week from Disability Rights Oregon (DRO)—a federally-appointed monitor for Oregonians with disabilities—for what DRO says is “inhumane” treatment of children and teens incarcerated at the facility.