Advocacy Groups Lose Bid to Fight Juvenile Detention Conditions

Three civil rights advocacy groups failed to convince a federal appeals court they have standing to challenge the conditions of South Carolina’s juvenile detention centers.

The detained youths, rather than the organizations, should be filing suit since they are the injured parties, a split panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decided Thursday in affirming the case’s dismissal.

The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights South Carolina, and Justice 360 sued the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and ...