Report: Oregon’s largest juvenile justice facility has system-wide failures

Oregon’s largest juvenile justice center is plagued by “cascading failures,” according to a Marion County grand jury report released on Monday.

The report scrutinizes the conditions at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.

Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson called for the grand jury inquiry into the conditions at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in June.

At the time, Clarkson said she had “grown increasingly concerned regarding the safety of youth placed at MacLaren.”…

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