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A new report details lingering problems with Kentucky's juvenile justice system.

A report that was released yesterday by state auditor Alison Ball came out after lawmakers had asked for it last year.

It says the state's juvenile detention centers lack clear policies relating to the use of force, isolation techniques and training.

The report also details the department's significant staffing shortages.

Lawmakers discussed the report on the Senate floor this afternoon.

You can spend all the time you want reading it.

Basically, we have no strategic direction.

We have failure of procedure in process.

We have a culture that's broken in a facility that is handling some of the most damaged and challenging young people that we've ever known.

These are humans.

These are people.

These are these are Kentucky's most vulnerable youth.

I realize they've got to give them numbers.

They can't put names to them.

But these are not numbers.

These are young people who've had life challenges beyond what most of us would ever know and have responded in inappropriate ways.

But we're charging people to take care of them and try to help regard them.

That admit in an interview they really don't know the purpose they're showing up for work for.

Not only is the Department of Juvenile Justice broken, it is not even being fixed by this Beshear administration.

The indignation is expressed regarding what young people have been subjected to angers me as well.

The answer has to be that those things must be alleviated and are eliminated.

But there's something else.

I do understand that when you have deficiencies in a system, any system, but in this case the juvenile justice system, this is not something you fix with a snap of a finger.

Cannot happen.

Cannot happen.

In fact, you have to look at those root causes and then you have to apply best practices.

And then you have to fund you have to fund those changes that you think would be important to alleviate those deficiencies.

A Juvenile Justice working group has been working on the persistent issues plaguing the system.

Senator Danny Carroll, a Republican from Western Kentucky, says that legislation will be filed soon that could recommend building Dodge Centers and Fayette County and western Kentucky with a third center possible in eastern Kentucky.

If the data directs it.