The Youth Development Center

Author: NHPR

New Hampshire has sent its most troubled kids to the same juvenile detention center for more than a century. It's a place that was supposed to nurture them, that instead hurt them in some of the worst ways imaginable. It's now at the center of one of the biggest youth detention scandals in American history. How did this happen and how did it finally come to light?
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