Oregon teen held in dirty isolation cell for 32 days, lawsuit claims

Oregon teen held in dirty isolation cell for 32 days, lawsuit claims

A 17-year-old at Oregon’s largest locked youth detention center was held for 32 days in a dirty isolation cell that reeked of urine and feces, a tactic that the Oregon Youth Authority used as punishment for the teen’s conduct, a new federal lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland by the Oregon Justice Resource Center, accuses the state of using solitary confinement as part of a harmful and illegal behavioral…