Some people are still kept there even decades after becoming adults.
Special fuck-you to state rep Jeffrey Sanchez
Massachusetts state Representative Jeffrey Sanchez, whose nephew, Brandon, has been detained at the JRC since 1992, is a major proponent of the JRC and their practices. Sanchez has repeatedly blocked the passage of legislation that would threaten the center.
This is unfortunately perfectly in line with a big chunk of the US. There’s a whole branch of theology in the James Dobson vein that dominates the US, which holds that disobedience is a sin and that the only “loving” response is physical punishment until the disobedience stops in order to save their soul