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Why the Blueprint Commission on Juvenile Justice was created…
2003 Omar Paisley, 17, collapsed and dies at Miami-Dade JDC of a ruptured appendix without ever seeing a doctor after complaining for 3 days of stomach pain and suffering from vomiting and diarrhea.

2004, grand jury responded to years of complaints abut conditions at the Fla. Institute for Girls by documenting 150 allegations of criminal mismanagement, including excessive force, sexual misconduct, and inadequate supervision.  In 2005 the facility, Florida’s first all-girls
prison was closed.

in 2006, Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died of suffocation at a Bay County boot camp after guards beat him when he was unable to finish running laps.  Security cameras captured the beating on tape.