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David Carson
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David Carson is a photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Goals and affirmations written out on sheets of paper are posted above a bunk bed in a group dorm room at the Hogan Street Regional Youth Cent…
Scott Odum, left, director of the Missouri Division of Youth Services, and Robert J. Knodell, director of the Missouri Department of Social Se…
LaTonji Wilson, left, a new facility manager of the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center in St. Louis, watches as a person being held there lead…
The Hogan Street Regional Youth Center at 1839 Hogan Street in St. Louis as seen on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. There have been multiple escapes …
A teenager being held at the W. E. Sears Youth Center in Poplar Bluff leads a tour of the state facility on Thursday, May 25, 2023. He was sch…
Paula Shaw, regional administrator for the southeast region of the Missouri Division of Youth Services, talks with people being held at the W.…
People in custody of the Missouri Division of Youth Services play softball at the W. E. Sears Youth Center in Poplar Bluff on Thursday, May 25…
Russyl Royer worked as a youth specialist at the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center until he was severely beaten during an escape attempt in J…