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, which can exacerbate their likelihood of contracting COVID-19 and having more serious complications.
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, each facility had its own method of treating sick kids. At Rogue Valley, a kid who feels ill will visit one of the nurses on site, who will assess them. “Our practice in the past has always been if a youth has a fever or has signs and symptoms of being sick, we typically can isolate them from the other youth in a smaller room,” Jerin said. “We just kind of stepped up that process with the COVID-19 going around, that we're much stricter about that.
But activists argue that putting a kid in isolation will only deter them from seeking help if they fall ill. “Solitary confinement is a form of torture,” Rovner told MTV News. “People need to be around other human beings [and] interact with them. And there's every reason to believe that solitary confinement only exacerbates many of the issues that young people have. It is as traumatic an experience as incarceration itself.
“The conditions under which [juvenile justice facilities] might have to implement social distancing — like suspending classes, programming, or therapy — looks like a lot more isolation and that butts up against other laws, like,” Soung said. “The ability to provide any sort of ‘rehabilitation’ to youth under these conditions and in this crisis is not possible within the custodial setting.”
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