Over five dozen children were left to sleep in the cold for over a week at the Baltimore Youth Detention Center, according to the Maryland office of the public defender.

Maryland Public Defender Natasha Dartigue said not only is the detention center overcrowded, but there is also no heat.

“For over a week, 63 children slept in dormitories where the indoor temperatures average between 55 and 60 degrees, and outside we know at night it was an average of 24 degrees.”

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The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services responded to the claims saying those at the youth detention center have not experienced any medical issues related to the temperatures and that staff are doing hourly temperature checks while the

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