Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.
Flags need to be flying upside down because we seem to be a country in distress.
“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 facility when he was 15 years old. “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.”
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Let me be clear about something, speaking for myself and I hope everyone on here. I don’t care which administration this falls under. This is torture. According to the documents, this thing has been going on for quite some time...Trump has made it acceptable but I wouldn’t care if JFK was allowing this……..IT IS TORTURE AND IT IS WRONG. ICE HAS TO GO !