POWHATAN – After more than a year of planning, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice was on target with the closing of Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County this month.

Three years earlier, she became the state's first Hispanic warden when she took over the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility at Ordway - also limited to male prisoners - and says she won the respect ...

A delayed decision from the state on whether to close two correctional facilities has county commissioners cautiously optimistic that more options are being considered.