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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A group of families is suing Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) over its use of a disciplinary measure that called for locking children in a dark boiler room.

Three sets of parents filed a civil lawsuit Monday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. The families allege several staffers at Thurston Woods School either sent kids to the boiler room or threatened that's where a paraprofessional would take them.

The staffers referred to the boiler room as 'The Dungeon,' according to the lawsuit.

According to the legal complaint, one paraprofessional at the K4-8 elementary school specifically would take "the students to 'the dungeon' and lock them inside with the lights turned off."

The parents claimed the punishment happened in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years. Acco

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