# Juvenile Home: Confining Teenage Girls to Isolation Cells for Months at a Time

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**Created:** [July 22, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juvenile-home-confining-teenage-girls-to-isolation-cells-for-months-at-a-time/664153 "2013-07-22T01:14:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juvenile-home-confining-teenage-girls-to-isolation-cells-for-months-at-a-time/664153/1 "2013-07-22T01:14:44Z")

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“The state-run Iowa Juvenile Home has confined teenage girls to small isolation cells for months at a time — in one case, reportedly, for almost a full year.”  
[http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130721/NEWS/307210045/1016/SPORTS05/?odyssey=nav|head](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130721/NEWS/307210045/1016/SPORTS05/?odyssey=nav%7Chead)  
See also:  
[http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130721/NEWS/130720026/1001/](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130721/NEWS/130720026/1001/)

Does this happen in other states?

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/juvenile-home-confining-teenage-girls-to-isolation-cells-for-months-at-a-time/664153/2 "2013-07-22T01:45:39Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> Does this happen in other states?

Will you even read the responses if we tell you?