[South Carolina] Complaint in U.S. v. South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice 

On April 14, 2022, the DOJ filed a complaint against the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice for depriving youth confined in the Broad River Road Complex facility of their constitutional rights. The complaint highlights Fourteenth Amendment violations, namely that the Department of Juvenile Justice “(i) failed to reasonably protect children from youth-on-youth violence; and (ii) seriously harms children by using prolonged isolation for punitive purposes.” The complaint also outlines that the Department “failed to keep the children in its custody reasonably safe from excessive force by staff.”