A multi-billion dollar federal program pays hardened adult criminals and runaway teens to live together in dormitory-like environments run by companies with lucrative contracts, leading to thousands of young people being hurt in recent years.
The Department of Labor’s Job Corps operates 131 facilities where low-income people ages 16 to 24 can live while being paid to gain a high school diploma and certification in trades like plumbing. Created in the 1960s, it has transformed into something between a prison and a college, gathering people from the margins of society and housing them in cinderblock dormitories where they fight, rape, and sell drugs to each other, data exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
More than 500 sexual assaults have been reported at Job Corps facilities in the last three years, including a male student climbing through a female student’s window and…
