Teen Dies Hours After Arriving at Youth Detention Center

A lawsuit has been filed alleging that a 16-year-old girl died from a methamphetamine overdose in a Georgia youth detention center while staff members watched without intervening. The teenager, Alexis Marie Sluder, was arrested and detained at the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center in Dalton, Georgia, in 2022. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Georgia on Tuesday. The lawsuit accuses five employees of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, including an …

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