5 Security Officers hurt during brawl at DC juvenile detention facility
Washington DC October 31 2023 Five security officers were hurt during a violent brawl inside a secured youth detention facility in Northeast D.C. Sunday evening after two juveniles overpowered a security officer and stole an ID badge, allowing them to open cell doors and release more than 20 detainees, D.C.’s city administrator confirmed to News4.
Two detainees attacked a security officer at the Youth Services Center on Mount Olivet Road NE, according to a police report. While one of them restrained her, the other stole her badge, the report said.
They then used the badge to open cell doors and release other detainees, the report said.
“I understand it was both boys and girls involved in the melee,” D.C. City Administrator Kevin Donahue told News4.
Donahue said the juveniles apparently wanted to fight other detainees in a separate cell block.
“So we ultimately had about 20-21 young people involved in a fight. We had about five or six staff members who gained order to it with the help of MPD, gained order,” Donahue said.
No juveniles managed to escape the facility.
