Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
I remember around when this whole child detention thing started. In Virginia there were wild reports that children were regularly beaten, stripped naked, and strapped to chairs with bags on their head for full days. The government sent someone in to investigate these wild claims and found...they were basically true. But none of that legally constituted abuse *cough*bullshit*cough*, so it was allowed to continue. The Venn diagram overlap between the children we're legally torturing and those that actually die in out custody is completely academic in my eyes, so I stick by my analogy.
Do you have any links? Because the news items I found don't confirm that the worst allegations are true.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shenand...ped-to-chairs/

Initial stories in July suggested the main problem was that kids had mental health problems that were not dealt with adequately.

Many of the children were sent there after U.S. immigration authorities accused them of belonging to violent gangs, including MS-13. President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited gang activity as justification for his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Mr. Trump said Wednesday that "our Border Patrol agents and our ICE agents have done one great job" cracking down on MS-13 gang members. "We're throwing them out by the thousands," he said.

But a top manager at the Shenandoah center said during a recent congressional hearing that the children did not appear to be gang members and were suffering from mental health issues resulting from trauma that happened in their home countries -- problems the detention facility is ill-equipped to treat.
The state review, ordered by a Democratic Governor, dealt with the use of restraints, and rejected the more outrageous claims.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...se-claims.html