JOHNSTOWN, N.Y., March 4 (UPI) -- The death of a 15-year-old at an upstate New York youth facility is focusing attention on the use of physical restraint in all of the state's youth centers.
The New York Times said Darryl Thompson died Nov. 18, 2006, at the Tryon Center in Johnstown.
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