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  2. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The report states that "the Virginia Department of Corrections has failed to embrace basic tenets of sound correctional practice and laws protecting inmates from abusive, degrading or cruel treatment" [15] and claims that "racism, excessive violence and inhumane conditions reign inside." [16]

  3. 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 ...

  4. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...

  5. Coffeewood Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    The Coffeewood Correctional Center is a state prison for men located in Mitchells, Culpeper County, Virginia, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was opened in 1994 and has a working capacity of 1,193 prisoners held at a level 2 (medium) security level.

  6. Safe-haven law - Wikipedia

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    Sign at San Francisco Fire Station 14 designating it as a Safe Surrender Site. Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so that the child becomes a ward of the state.

  7. Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    A-1 is for the special needs kids. A-2 is for the new intakes. B-3 is the segregation unit which houses short-term and long-term (Behavioral Modification Unit) B-4 is currently closed pending transition into high risk offenders. C Complex is strictly for sex offenders until they complete their program, then are released into "general population"

  8. Baby Driver - Wikipedia

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    In Atlanta, Miles, self-named "Baby", is a young getaway driver who lost his parents in a car crash that left him with tinnitus, and finds catharsis in music. He ferries crews of robbers assembled by kingpin Doc to pay off a debt as recompense for theft of a car containing Doc's illicit goods.

  9. The Boxcar Children - Wikipedia

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    The series is aimed at readers in grades 2–6. [ 3 ] Originally published in 1924 by Rand McNally (as The Box-Car Children ) and reissued in a shorter revised form in 1942 by Albert Whitman & Company, [ 4 ] The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden.