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Louisiana moves juveniles from adult penitentiary but continues to fight court order to do so

By KEVIN McGILL
Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana officials say they have moved juvenile detainees from a former death row building at the state’s sprawling adult penitentiary. The state’s Office of Juvenile Justice says the youths were transferred Friday morning to a juvenile facility in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana. The office’s news release says the state will continue to fight a federal judge’s order that required the move. That order had been paused by a federal appeals court pending further proceedings. The state says Jackson Parish recently opened a juvenile facility that can hold the youths until a new state facility is completed.

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