Delegate Holly Seibold

Back in Richmond this week for meetings with the Virginia Commission on Youth and the Virginia Commission on Healthy Youth.

We discussed a wide range of issues impacting children, teens, and families across the Commonwealth — including mental health, abuse, public health, and juvenile justice. I also appreciated the opportunity to discuss my bill, HB 91, which focuses on improving standards and increasing out-of-cell time for youth in Virginia’s juvenile correctional facilities.

Every young person deserves safety, dignity, support, and a real opportunity for rehabilitation and success. Grateful to continue working on these important issues on behalf of Virginia’s youth.

“Keeping people in such conditions longer than needed, the plaintiffs as well as lawmakers like Jones and Seibold have argued, damages their mental health and prevents them from accessing rehabilitative programs that can set them up for successful re-entry when their sentences end.”

Bill to bar out-of-state transfers to Red Onion vetoed, lawsuit on living conditions set for trial - The Leavenworth Echo Red Onion State Prison, a Southwest Virginia correctional facility, has come under scrutiny in recent years for inmates’ allegations of racism, retaliation and abuse, claims partially supported by a state probe earlier this year. Gov. Abigail Spanberger vetoed on Tuesday a bill that aimed to solve...