RICHMOND, VA, Aug. 11 — A multiracial crowd of more than 150 people gathered today in front of Richmond City Hall to demand that city and state officials take a stronger stand against ICE operations in the city.
Virginia tiene dos centros de detención utilizados únicamente para retener a personas secuestradas por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés).
Virginia has two detention centers used solely to hold people kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At a public meeting held Dec. 10 at the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, the community was offered the first public progress report on the design of the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground memorial.
The next time you visit the Lumpkin’s Jail site, there will be archaeology happening.
Until Nov. 17, it had been 50 years since a Virginia prison guard had been killed by an inmate. According to VADOC, that changed when a corrections officer was severely injured by an inmate at the River North Correctional Center in Southwest Virginia. The guard later died of his injuries.
This year marked 23 years of honoring the memory and legacies of “Gabriel’s Rebellion” and the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground.
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