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Migrant kids were stripped, drugged, locked away. So much for compassion.
WHEN ACCOUNTS of abuse emerged in June from a detention center for migrant minors in Virginia — children as young as 14 stripped naked, shackled, strapped to chairs, their heads encased in bags, left for days or longer in solitary confinement, and in some cases beaten and…
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- The Washington Post
This institution, the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center, near Staunton, couldn’t possibly be in America.
And if it was, it had to be an extreme outlier — a place that, while overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, simply…