66 - Juvenile Penal Labor: The Killing of Gina Score

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On July 21st, 1999, the girls at the Plankinton juvenile detention boot camp in South Dakota were forced to do a 2.7 mile — or 4.3 kilometer — run. Fourteen-year-old Gina Score was having trouble. Gina had not even finished a week at the boot camp, and she almost immediately fell behind the other girls.

Gina was showing signs of heat stroke — the most severe form of heat illness. Gina had several serious indicators: she was barely moving, and gasping for breath. Gina was cooking like an egg in the hot sun. Her organs were shutting down.

She lay like that for more than three hours before staff called an ambulance, but it was too late; at only fourteen years old, Gina Score was declared dead en route to the hospital.

Gina was a victim not only of the cruel staff at Plankinton who literally worked her to death, but of a juvenile criminal “justice” system that doles out ruthless punishments to children under the guise of “alternatives to prison.” The very place that claimed it would help Gina by reforming her into a model citizen murdered her. And while Plankinton itself has been investigated and shut down, most of the ingredients of the deadly recipe that killed Gina Score continue to abuse and traumatize children around the country.

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