The Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly known as the Youth Detention Center, has been at the center of perhaps the largest juvenile justice abuse scandal in U.S. history. (Photo by Dave Cummings/New Hampshire Bulletin)
New Hampshire Associate Attorney General Christopher Bond said during Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting that the state Department of Justice is doing its own investigation into potential abuse and neglect at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester.
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