Keyris Manzanares
Multimedia Journalist at VPM
2x Emmy award-winning, journalist @myvpm covering Richmond. Story ideas? [email protected] Hablo español 🇸🇻
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1 week ago |
vpm.org | Keyris Manzanares
VPM News wants to know more about how federal immigration policy is affecting Virginians. Your experience and insights can help bring important stories to light. Have recent federal or local immigration policy changes impacted your life or those around you? Are there challenges or successes in your community related to immigration that need more attention? Do you have a story or tip that could help shed light on how these policies are shaping Virginians’ lives?
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2 weeks ago |
whro.org | Keyris Manzanares
This story was reported and written by VPM News. Lockdowns, increased restrictions on out-of-cell time, a lack of rehabilitative services and critically low staffing levels have recently drawn attention to Virginia’s only youth prison: Bon Air Juvenile Justice Center.
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2 weeks ago |
vpm.org | Keyris Manzanares
Lockdowns, increased restrictions on out-of-cell time, a lack of rehabilitative services and critically low staffing levels have recently drawn attention to Virginia’s only youth prison: Bon Air Juvenile Justice Center. Recent public hearings have resulted in officials calling for investigations into the Chesterfield County facility — a potential first step in preventing dangerous conditions from becoming commonplace in the face of chronic understaffing.
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3 weeks ago |
vpm.org | Keyris Manzanares
The moment she heard her son’s voice over the phone, she knew his time inside the state-run Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center was taking a toll. Her teenage son has been at the facility in Chesterfield County, the only state-run juvenile correctional center, for less than a year. When he called on March 24, he said he’d been on lockdown for four days. “He said, ‘Mom, this place is not good.
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3 weeks ago |
vpm.org | Keyris Manzanares
This story references suicide. As Virginians navigated the first few weeks of 2025 and considered their hopes for the new year, a boy incarcerated at the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Chesterfield County wrote a letter to his mother. “I am being treated like a caged animal!” he wrote on a Sunday early in January from the only state-run juvenile correctional center.
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