
8 Days at Ware | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 803 | 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.
Suicides at a juvenile detention center in Louisiana raise troubling questions about the facility and the agencies tasked with overseeing it. Thirteen-year-old Solan Peterson had only been at Ware Youth Center for eight days when he took his life while in isolation. ‘8 Days at Ware’ examines Solan’s last days – exposing the system that failed him and a legacy of abuse going back decades.
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8 Days at Ware | Official Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 803 | 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Suicides at a juvenile detention center in Louisiana raise troubling questions about the facility and the agencies tasked with overseeing it. Thirteen-year-old Solan Peterson had only been at Ware Youth Center for eight days when he took his life while in isolation. ‘8 Days at Ware’ examines Solan’s last days – exposing the system that failed him and a legacy of abuse going back decades.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Bridget] Hi, mom.
Hi, dad.
- I'll have to do this.
- [Bridget] I don't trust people like I once did.
- I made it!
- [Bridget] Oh, your boy's gonna be safe there.
You believe things like that.
- Clearly, things went wrong.
- [Gabryell] I call it solitary confinement, they might not, but when you get one hour a day, that's solitary confinement.
- I don't know if I would ever let go of him.
♪ [ambient music]
Former Ware detention facility employee speaks out
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Clip: S8 Ep803 | 2m 41s | Former Ware employee and detainee speak out on the conditions there. (2m 41s)
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