A 10-year-old dead of exhaustion. More than a dozen dead from pneumonia. About 100 youths succumbed to tuberculosis.
These are some of the main findings from a new Capital News Service analysis of death records for Black youths who died at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children in southern Prince George’s County.
The institution in Cheltenham has a history of abuse, neglect and labor exploitation since its start in 1873 as the first juvenile detention center for Black boys in the Southern United States…