Gladiator School: Stories from Inside YTS (Ep 8)
<p><em>Editor’s note: This is Part 8 of “Gladiator School: Stories from Inside YTS” — an oral history of life inside California’s most notorious juvenile prison. Youth Training School (known formally as Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility) had a reputation for mayhem, violence and murder that earned it the name Gladiator School. It closed in 2010. Children were hardened for survival at YTS, only to be returned to the streets.</em></p>
<p><em>Since publishing the story </em><a href="https://medium.com/vantage/photo-essay-the-closing-of-californias-most-violent-juvenile-prison-cc83cd9eaf42" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Closing of California’s Most Violent Juvenile Prison</a><em>, survivors of YTS have come forward to tell stories of daily life inside. This series relays and respects their stories: Juvie told by those who were there.</em></p>
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