Records allege children are punished in ‘tight, dark’ rooms at Charleston-area group home

The S.C. Department of Social Services has continued to assign dozens of children in state custody to a Summerville group home in recent months, even after agency officials were made aware that Pinelands Group Homes allegedly punishes children by boarding them up in small, dark rooms for long stretches of time, new federal court records show.

Pinelands CEO Joette Kizer denied the use of solitary confinement for children under the facility’s care. She said she didn’t know why court-appointed experts made such claims.

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