By: Snapper Tams, L’18 In June of 2017, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) closed Powhatan County’s Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center, one of the final vestiges of a decades long transition toward more punitive juvenile punishments.[1] All children housed at Beaumont were transferred to Chesterfield County’s Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center, the only remaining statewide facility for youths in the Commonwealth.[2] Prior to 2005, … Continue reading Virginia Shifts to Treatment-Focused Approach in Juvenile Justice