The girls who survived

By: Brittany Hailer, The Marshall Project

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: September 2, 2026

Words: 899

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook.

It was hard not to feel hopeless. Locked away from everyone and everything they knew, they spent their teenage years inside youth residential treatment centers, face to face with violence.

In the chaos, the children found …

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