Some other folks got into a room in the courtyard where they store the weights. He told us that most often, the juveniles obtained knives from the adult inmates. Sure, we're supposed to be separated from the adults. But we go to court with adults, we see them in the bullpens, they're in the yards, they're in the infirmary, we see them on the way to school, we see them in the visiting room. Juveniles may arrange for workers to deliver knives or other contraband.
Somebody putsit on a lunchtray.
212 Several youths recounted their first-hand experiences with shanks. He wouldn't cooperate. 213 Others readily admitted to owning or using knives. 214 From July 1998 to March 1999, the detention center reported that seventy-two detainee assaults on other detainees involved the use of weapons. In March 1999, the jail confiscated 108 weapons during searches of the facility.