‘Still grieving': Inquiry begins into graves at former site of juvenile detention

A commission formed to study how hundreds of Black youth died at a former state-run juvenile detention facility in Prince George’s County held its first meeting this week. The Maryland General Assembly passed legislation this year creating the House of Reformation Commission to study how boys who were in state care died and were buried in unmarked graves at the former Boys Village site in Cheltenham. Commissioner Phyllis Hammond learned in April her uncle, Amos Hammond, was buried at...