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Chad Livengood

Michigan resumes monitoring troubled Wayne County juvenile jail

The Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility is again operating under state supervision less than a month after a public emergency order was lifted following the alleged sexual assault of a child and months of overcrowding and understaffing in the troubled facility.

On June 20, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reinstated its monitoring of the Hamtramck facility where juvenile offenders are housed following an unspecified "incident," Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Bob Wheaton said Sunday.

"The department is investigating the incident and is unable to release details at this time," Wheaton said Sunday in an email.

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