At 16, Alyssa Beck was locked in solitary confinement in an adult jail in Florida.
Most of her day was spent in a gray cell no larger than a parking space. School was a struggle. Every week, a teacher slid worksheets under her cell door — middle school assignments for a high school student, Beck said. If she had questions, she would crouch to talk through a flap in the cell door.
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