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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported:

Alexander Youth Services Center

  Trouble inside

  At Mac Cottage at the Alexander Youth Services Center,
  boys reported being beaten with sticks and fists and lined
  up to be slapped.

 

 

 

  Group session
  Boys rest their hands on their knees during a group meeting in their
  unit at the Alexander Youth Services Center. It was at such a meeting
  at Mac Cottage last year that an employee warned boys in the group
  that if they got out of line, he would strangle them as they slept and
  dump their bodies in a pond behind the cottage -- and no one would
  ask questions. (Click here for more).

 

 A brush with danger
  Division of Youth Services worker Faye Higgins helps a youth with a needle-
  craft project. This spring, Higgins and another woman found themselves
  locked inside a unit at the Alexander Youth Services Center while some
  of the state's most violent boys rioted around them. "I was afraid I was
  going to die. After it was over, I was a nervous wreck."


  Given a line

  A boy fishes in an Alexander Youth Services Center campus pond. Eight boys living
  in the Mac Cottage said a staff worker threatened to kill them and throw them into
  the pond if they reported his alleged abuse to authorities.

 

 

 


 Kickball conflict
 Youth services workers wrestle with a girl at the Alexander Youth Services
 Center's START unit for violent girls after the youth burst out of the gymnasium
 kicking and screaming in an apparent argument over kickball scoring. The workers
 handled this incident by the book.

 

 


  Aftermath of a rampage
  Boys in the Goldstar unit at the Alexander Youth Services
  Center toppled a washing machine, a dryer, a table and
  some bookshelves during a riot this spring. After police
  arrived, the boys used the washing machine to block a door.

  Courtesy the state Human Services Department

 

 

 

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