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LAUREL, Md. (AP) — D.C. officials say a youth has escaped from a juvenile detention facility in Maryland after attacking a guard.

Police say the 17-year-old from southeast Washington escaped from the New Beginnings Youth Development Center in Laurel on Monday. Officials say the teen stole the guard’s keys, climbed a fence and used a nearby ladder to escape the facility in the guard’s car.

By late Monday D.C. police had located the car, but not the youth.

This is the third escape from the center since it opened in 2009. The $46 million campus was hailed as a model for youth detention and a place to rehabilitate young criminals. The  center is in Anne Arundel County, but is run by the District.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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  • bj in bmore

    rehabilitate who? this new climate of youth cannot be rehabilitated. why spend 46 million on a facility? just build a couple of concrete bunkers and drop them in.

    • PSST Off

      I agree bj. Why is the Detention Center in AA Co. and run by the District? Doesn’t the District want their vermin? An addition should be built onto the DC Detention Center and leave the District to their own problems.

  • ABruce

    williejoe be careful, one may take you to be a bigot. surely you must know that evil is not prejudice…it resides in people of all races.

  • Doug

    There is NO rehabilitation.
    You just house these animals.
    All they learn is more violence and thievery .
    Send them all off to the front line in Afghanistan

    • Elaine

      Seriously…..where do people like you come from? Throwing the first stone? I’m sure you are wonderful…..poor poor you!

      • PSST Off

        OMG! I guess Elaine is all for giving In-State Tuition to the illegals too!

      • Elaine

        Unless you are a native American your family are immigrants as well. Think, don’t judge. they pay taxes just like you and me.

  • Herman Glimsher

    REHAB IS A MYTH……….PRISON IS THE PLACE WHERE CRIMINALS GO TO LEARN HOW TO BE BETTER CRIMINALS FROM OTHER CRIMINALS…………ONCE THEY’VE BEEN “IN” FOR A COUPLE YEARS THEY SHOULD NOT BE LET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • twyatt

    there is one thing that you all have to remember and that is that sometimes, when kid do the illegal things that they do is because they see every day from their parents, relatives and soo on. They may not have had the upbringing that you had you know these kids may not have a family at home, noone to teach them right from wrong, to show them the way that people are supposed to behave. You cant just start blaming the kid… what about the parents.. what did they teach them? Ask yourself that before you start saying such things.

  • Doug

    Had the parents only practiced birth control 18 years ago,
    we wouldn’t be reading this.
    And would have saved society the burden

  • sillyman michaels

    GUESS THE GUARDS WERE SLEEPING JUST LIKE THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS..

    • PSST Off

      Maybe they were texting each other!

  • truthteller

    all black people charged with a crime should get a white judge and jury.all white people charged with a crime should get a black judge and jury.

  • Guenstige Fluege Nach London Lhr

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  • Elaine

    You are a racist ass! You make humans looks bad. Someone should send you to the mirror fool!

  • williejoe

    Elaine, STFU & SMD!…Baboon face.

  • williejunk

    Willie Joe is a pathetic Tool! Pathetic as they get.

  • Elaine

    You are disgusting! I will pray for you.

  • sheriff willie

    Elaine, Pray for your own barbecued brown a$$.

  • smooth

    Willie joe…..sounds pretty white trash to me.

  • Blueberry

    Go down to Piggstown and you will be singing a different story. You are just an ignorant ass! Violence exists primarily where there is poverty. Poverty knows no race.

  • ABruce

    williejoe – safest is the key word here. The fact the you don’t feel “totally” safe in either proves that the existence of evil can be seen in any neighborhood. Pay attention to the news, more and more, violent crimes are occurring in neighborhoods where you would have never expected. There’s a knew breed of person existing today, and a knew evil is consuming them…they (regardless of race) have no respect or regard for life.

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