In June 2015, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves ruled in the Walnut Grove lawsuit that the Mississippi Department of Corrections was violating the Eighth Amendment by failing to protect prisoners from violence by “gangs run amok.” At that time, the prison held adults; it had been a youth facility until 2012. The removal of all juveniles from the prison had been ordered by Judge Reeves, who called Walnut Grove “a picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world.”