Northam: First-Person Accounts and Facility

northam: Democratic Gov, according to Vancouver Courier. Ralph Northam ordered the review in June, hours after the AP published first-person accounts by children as young as 14 who said they were handcuffed, shackled and beaten at the facility. Investigators concluded the current treatment of detainees at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center did not meet the state's legal threshold of abuse or neglect, according to a copy of the findings issued Monday by the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice and obtained by The Associated Press.article continues below Trending Stories Dear johns Vancouver restaurant in the running for Canada's Best Restroom Vancouver's construction community rallies behind business destroyed by fire Trinity Western University students no longer need to make pledge to heterosexual abstinence Air quality advisory back in effect as Vancouver blanketed by wildfire smoke But a top state regulator conceded in an interview that investigators did not attempt to determine whether serious allegations of past abuse at the locally run facility are true. They also described being stripped of their clothes and locked in solitary confinement, sometimes strapped to chairs with bags over their heads. The teens who made those initial complaints were subsequently transferred by federal authorities to other facilities or deported to their home countries. The incidents are described in sworn statements from six Latino teens included in a class-action lawsuit filed in November and are alleged to have occurred from 2015 to 2018, under both the Obama and Trump administrations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.