A former social worker at East Mesa Juvenile Detention Center reported rampant drug use, excessive force by guards, and inappropriate relationships.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The drugs were stuffed inside a burrito, which a guard from the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Center had brought into the facility and dispersed to the youth inside.
When a facility social worker, Juliana Gonzales, entered the unit minutes later, she saw pandemonium.
"It was complete chaos. A couple of the youth were taken to the hospital after experiencing negative reactions to the drugs," Gonzales told CBS 8.
The drug-filled burrito was just one of numerous drug-related incidents that Gonzales says she saw during her time as a counselor inside the East Mesa Detention Center, the county's 290-bed juvenile center, which houses minors who committed serious offenses.
Many of those instances resulted in the youth needing hospital treatment.
But that is not all Gonzales saw.
"These kids are being subjected to trauma, and the trauma that's coming from the way that they're treated, the way that they're punished, and the drugs that are being brought into the facility," Gonzalez told CBS 8. "That creates substance use issues for these youth, and it's really the last thing that they need."
Gonzales says she witnessed guards beating some minors, leaving them with broken eye sockets, broken arms, their teeth getting knocked out by other inmates as well as by guards.
Gonzales says she reported many of the issues...
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