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Family Members and Lawyers Describe Assaults of Teens in Prison

By Alyssa Abkowitz

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | August 13, 2004

Wayne Boatwright Sr. couldn't hold back tears as he told legislators about the death of his 18-year-old son, Wayne Boatwright Jr. He was strangled to death in February at Lee Arrendale State Prison, where children between the ages of 13 and 17 found guilty of one of seven violent felonies are sent. Once there, they often are preyed upon by the prison's older population, documents show.

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