A new class-action lawsuit alleges that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) knowingly allowed hundreds of children to be wrongfully incarcerated in juvenile jail. According to the suit, the agency failed to find appropriate placements for the children, leaving them incarcerated for as long as 240 days after a judge ordered their release.
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," Janiah Caine, an 18-year-old class representative in the lawsuit who was wrongly incarcerated for 166 days, told CBS. "It's a lot of emotions and feelings that you feel—because nobody wants to be in a horrible place like that, where you're fighting girls."
