Monitors with Disability Rights NC were so alarmed by what they found at a juvenile detention center in Madison County in December 2024 that they immediately called state officials.
Youth were being tased, pepper-sprayed — sometimes for no apparent reason — and were put on “lockdown” in cells for days or months at a time, according to the Disability Rights report.
After a separate investigation by a local child welfare agency, youth were removed from the Madison detention center the following month…