Youth charged as adults have no spot in local jail; attorneys plea for return to juvenile detention

Antoine Bowie waited in limbo. For days, the 16-year-old sat in what was supposed to be a short-term holding cell in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison's central booking area, the often busy and loud gateway into the jail. 

Bowie, however, was not waiting to be checked in or waiting for his first court appearance; there was simply no other place for him at the parish's adult jail. The dorm to house him and other similarly situated juveniles is a more than a three-hour drive north.