June 22, 2018

Immigrant children claim they were beaten in detention center

Daily Beast - Immigrant children as young as 14 say they were beaten while handcuffed, locked up in solitary confinement, and left naked in concrete cells at a juvenile detention center in Virginia. “Whenever they used to restrain me and put me in the chair, they would handcuff me,” said a Honduran immigrant who was sent to the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center when he was just 15.

“Strapped me down all the way, from your feet all the way to your chest, you couldn’t really move... They have total control over you. They also put a bag over your head. It has little holes; you can see through it. But you feel suffocated with the bag on.” Many of the kids were reportedly sent to the facility after immigration authorities accused them of belonging to gangs. .... The detention facility denied all allegations of physical abuse.

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