In a six-page letter to Lingle, ACLU legal director Lois Perrin accused OYS and executive director Sharon Agnew of "excluding" the ACLU from discussions pertaining to reform at the facility.

In August 2003, the ACLU released a 34-page report, compiled with cooperation of state officials, that found that there was "a pattern of egregious conduct and conditions at HYCF that violate minimum professional and constitutional standards."

The report also alleged rape, brutality and crowding at the Windward facility. In response, Lingle reassigned the administrator and a corrections specialist at HYCF last August.

In reassigning Mel Ando from his job as the top official at the facility and Glenn Yoshimoto from his corrections specialist position, Lingle said the "report's conclusions are too serious to leave the current management in place."

The letter sent today to Lingle states that in the 10 months since the ACLU issued the scathing report about conditions at HYCF, the OYS and Agnew have refused to provide information about reform and improvements at the facility despite creating a document that lists specific actions taken in response to ACLU findings.

For months, the ACLU has been threatening litigation against the state if conditions at HYCF are not improved.

Perrin said she hopes the conditions at HYCF can be resolved.

"Unfortunately we're at a stalemate insofar as the ACLU has been excluded from all collaborative efforts at reform at HYCF and we would like to get that back on track," she said.

Agnew was out of town today and could not be reached for comment.