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$3 million settlement reached against a former Pennsylvania juvenile justice facility

The Glen Mills Schools was the older reform school in the United States.
By The Associated Press

Shuttered reform school in Delaware County eyed as medical overflow facility

The Glen Mills School has medical and dental facilities, an air field, a generator and a more than 85,000 square-foot athletic facility.
By The Associated Press

More lawsuits filed against nation’s oldest reform school

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 13 lawsuits have been filed recently against now-shuttered Glen Mills Schools.

By The Associated Press

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Advocates sue Pa. officials, say they failed to catch major problems at nation’s oldest reform school

“If we as a state are going to take children...into our custody because they have done something wrong, we have an obligation to treat them, as if we were their parents.”
By Avi Wolfman-Arent/Keystone Crossroads