The FOX 8 I-Team has found a local detention center manager fired in the midst of an investigation into explicit photos on an electronic device at the juvenile lock-up. This comes to light after the I-Team found the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department is investigating photos of an “underage, unidentified female.” Records released by Cuyahoga County …
Investigation Ongoing After Detention Center Manager Fired Read More »
The FOX 8 I-Team has found a worker fired at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center after being accused of staging fights between inmates. This comes after the I-Team has revealed multiple large outbreaks of violence there in recent months. Records provided by juvenile court show detention officer Trent Dunning was fired last month. His …
Forced Fights, Explicit Photos: More Detention Center Trouble Read More »
The FOX 8 I-Team has uncovered exclusive video of yet another riot breaking out inside the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center. The latest incident is one of many, with the I-Team exposing big trouble there again and again. Security video shows, in the new case, a teacher walk through a door into a room and …
Absolute Havoc: Another Riot At Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center Read More »
A pay raise short — a staffing crisis too late. When Cuyahoga Juvenile Court Administrative Judge Thomas O’Malley asked the county officials to match raises for Juvenile Detention Center employees so they’d be on the same pay scale as downtown correction officers, they responded with a pay hike that was a little over half as …
It was as early as April 2020 that COVID-19 began affecting employees at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center. On April 2, 2020, The Plain Dealer reported that a Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center officer and a juvenile court employee were ordered to quarantine due to concerns related to the Coronavirus. The Plain Dealer reported: …
Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center Struggles with Staffing Crisis During Pandemic Read More »
For any parent, the video obtained by the FOX 8 I-Team last Dec. 17 is hard to watch. It’s easy to imagine your own child under the pummel of fists and bodies. Listening to the mother of a locked up teen being told about the chaotic fight for the first time is absolutely gut wrenching. …
Heartbreaking video shows the violence teens face at detention center Read More »
In a Letter to the Editor, published in The Plain Dealer on Oct. 13, Laborers Local 860 Field Representative Colin Sikon lays blame where it belongs: at the feet of Cuyahoga County Juvenile administrators who abandoned the workers’ Union. “Today, recruitment does not keep up with staff attrition in the detention facility,” he wrote. “This …
Juvenile Court has itself to blame for detention center violence Read More »
Save pennies or teeth, your dentist says. In the long run, which approach will stretch a family budget? Cuyahoga County administration officials face a similar decision when it comes to staffing at the juvenile detention center. They pay workers poorly, which leads to a staffing crisis. Then a lack of trained staff at the center …
Low staffing at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center leads to $20,000 riot Read More »
Being treated like animals, feeling scared for their lives, longing to see and hear from family — that’s how one youth resident described life at the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center. Our kids deserve better. In an Oct. 6 guest editorial in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland attorney Leah Winsberg describes the cramped conditions young residents …
Hunger, soiled underwear, isolation: living conditions at the juvenile detention center Read More »
Simply not hiring people is the Cuyahoga County administration’s approach to balancing the county budget. It’s as shortsighted as a family household assuming they can afford the rent if they skip groceries for the month. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley criticized County Executive Armond Budish’s plan to trim personnel costs by omitting unfilled positions from …
