FROM THE ARCHIVE
Suit filed for youth inmates
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TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2002

A lawsuit was filed against the state of Montana by 21 former inmates of a youth detention facility.

The suit alleges mistreatment by corrections officers. The inmates say they were pepper-sprayed excessively and were given alcohol and other illicit substances in exchange for sex.

The suit also claims discrimination because a a disproportionate number of the inmates are Native.

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Former Pine Hills inmates sue, make sex allegations (The Great Falls Tribune 4/23)