The candidates offer competing visions of jail programming and community outreach.
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The standards — ordered by the governor — are more than seven months overdue.
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The prison is facing claims of deteriorating conditions, including prolonged lockdowns.
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Two teachers were injured a day after the state’s top inspector announced an audit.
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Experts say solving the staffing crisis is just the start.
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NPR first reported on the case of Charles Givens, a disabled inmate at Marion Correctional Treatment Center, in 2023.
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Issues playing out at the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center are part of a national trend.
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Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center located in Chesterfield is Virginia's last youth prison. A recent report recommends that the center is shutdown and smaller treatment facilities are created around the state.
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Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County is the last maximum security youth prison Virginia.
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A state agency has narrowed a list of potential sites for a new central Virginia youth prison to five, but some of the properties have already met pushback from local officials.