14 fights, 8 arrests, 4 positive drug tests in recent days at DCs secure Youth Services Center NBC4 Washington [Video]

According to police reports, dispatch records and government sources familiar with the situation, it has been a violent and dangerous month inside D.C.’s juvenile detention center. D.C. police and paramedics have been called repeatedly to the long-troubled facility.

Oversight reports show the start of this year showed improvement when it came to violence inside the facility, but the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) told News4 Monday there were 14 assaults in the prior 10 days inside the facility, suggesting that improving trend has hit a roadblock.

At 6:30 p.m. Friday, D.C. police and EMS were called for a fight inside D.C.’s Youth Services Center in Northeast D.C. It was so severe multiple ambulances and police units were sent to calm things down and treat injured young people in what is supposed to be a secure detention facility, according to those government sources.

Dispatch calls make clear there were …