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  2. Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice - Wikipedia

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    All DJJ secure correctional facilities are in unincorporated areas.Facilities include: [4] Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center (Chesterfield County) - Chartered in 1906 by a private group and opened in Bon Air on a 206 acre [5] farm in 1910, the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls was transferred to the State of Virginia in 1914 [6] to enable care and training of "incorrigible white ...

  3. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Keen Mountain Correctional Center: Oakwood: 879 Lawrenceville Correctional Center: Lawrenceville: 1,555 Operated by GEO Group as Virginia's only private state prison, until Aug. 1, 2024. When the State takes it over. [4] Lunenburg Correctional Center: Victoria: 1,200 Marion Correctional Treatment Center Marion: 375 Mental health hospital

  4. List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

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    This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...

  5. 'Building a prison for children': Overcrowded youth detention ...

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    The state's other juvenile detention center, Green Hill School in Chehalis, surpassed its capacity months ago and has kept operating well above its stated maximum. This week, Green Hill's ...

  6. Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls - Wikipedia

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    Petersen renamed the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls as “Kilbourne Farm,“ the land’s original designation. [2] This girls reformatory evolved over time to become a co-ed, racially integrated state reformatory that is now known as the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center, operated by the Virginia Department of Juvenile ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The state stopped admitting new youth to Pahokee in August 1999, after the facility failed an annual audit. But once again, the state government did not cancel Slattery’s contract. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice instead allowed the company to withdraw from the contract eight months early.

  8. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The facility, which received its first prisoners in 1800 and was completed (with using prison labor) in 1804, (earlier than the current oldest state prison in America, the still standing Eastern State Penitentiary (1829-1971) in Philadelphia and seven years before the neighboring Maryland Penitentiary (now Metropolitan Transitional Center and ...

  9. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile detention facilities are often overcrowded and understaffed. [16] The most infamous example of this trend is Cheltenham center in Maryland, which at one point crowded 100 boys into cottages sanctioned for a maximum capacity of 24, with only 3–4 adults supervising. Young people in these environments are subject to brutal violence from ...