Jefferson Trail Treatment Center for Children is going out of business, and the building is being demolished, CBS-19 reports. You might remember Jefferson Trail under any of its prior names, which it kept changing every time they were found to have beaten or raped their young patients: Millmont Center, Brown Schools, or Whisper Ridge. They changed their name three years ago after the director of operations pleaded guilty to attempting to have sex with one of the children in her care. (For more on how terribly that kids were treated at the facility, see examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.) But I’ll say this for Jefferson Trail: there’s no evidence that they ever abused their patients while they operated under that name. So, uh…good job?
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
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In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
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Also a big student apt. complex is going up across Arlington Blvd., if I have my geography right: http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2012/01/barracks-area-apartments.html
My suspicion on this place has always been that it shows what happens when we allow the gov’t to outsource x to private contractors. (In this case you could call x either teen mental health or teen detention facility, since the teens were ordered into custody by Juvenile courts, as I understand it.) We end up paying as much for the privatized service, with less accountability, and more of the money going to owners, shareholders and executives, and less to front-line workers, who also lose job security. So we end up with a population of economically insecure workers. These jobs used to be a step up into the middle class. An unfortunately similar example was when the city contracted out garbage pickup, the archetypical step-up job.
I knew two teachers at the former version of Milmont. They were given no training by the local managers, who spent their time sitting around joking about the teens.
Only because the scandal was uncovered in place dense with journalism did it (presumably) stop.
One more thing. The x order by the Juvenile courts I’m sure allowed parents with more money to send their teens to better facilities.
colfer – I think the new apartments are going up on the site of the Jefferson Trail building not across the street. It looks like the new development will also take the old Recording for the Blind building, and the office building between RFB and Shops a Milmont.
I’m disappointed to read a suggestion from Rosensweig to reduce planned parking. Inadequate parking doesn’t reduce use of cars, it just makes residents drive around creating pollution looking for on-street parking. The idea that the city will reduce student cars by reducing the ability to park them will just push more student residences to the county.