Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – Patrick Morrisey, Governor of Western Virginia, promised Wednesday that his administration would improve transparency and politics in a state -prison system.
Morrisey, Republican, has announced changes after eight listening sessions across the country to determine the field of improvement and an overview of critical cases. Morrisey said he heard the participants in a session in Martinsburg, discussed by Broken System.
“It was difficult to hear that many questions could be avoided if the state interacted differently if the state removed a certain bureaucracy or had the necessary tool to better equip Children’s Security Services staff,” Morrisey said at a press conference at the State Capitol. “You all know that these issues have been very, very long. And unfortunately, children suffer. And we cannot tolerate it.
“Western Virginia cannot constantly kick the cans as it has been in the past. It is not a model of this administration.”
In essence, the opioid epidemic in a state with the highest number of deaths per capita, in Western Virginia, is the highest number of child care frequencies – currently more than 6,000 with about 1.8 million in the state.
Morrisey, who took office in January after three terms, as the Prosecutor General of the State, has a slightly accused of the administration of the two -term Republican Governor Jim Justice for often detaining public care information, including the Stone Stone Freedom Law.
After internal six deaths or almost deaths from 2021 to 2024. After reviewing Morrisey, the Human Services Department would implement a new policy obliging certain information, including research results, would reveal serious children’s welfare cases.
“You will not have to chase people in the hall” said Morrisey.
Among the amendments, Morrisey said that children’s welfare supervisors will now have to perform menstrual overviews of their cases, and a new care system will be implemented, allowing employees to contact persons rather than just rely on the file. He also said that the children’s welfare dashboard improvements were made to facilitate access to data.
“What I can promise today, we want to be honest, we want to be transparent and we will be responsible for what will happen,” Morrisey said.
For decades, Western Virginia has been a serious problem for children’s welfare.
2014 Salem closed a private boarding school for restless youth after suspicion of abuse. The court proceedings against the former founder of the Miracle Meadows School and its activities, who suspect the widespread sexual, physical and mental abuse, have been resolved by tens of millions of dollars.
The discovery of a 14-year-old girl’s body was published in 2023. In his home, it was encouraged to investigate whether law enforcement and child protection services could intervene in order to avoid death. The girl’s mother and two grandparents were accused of murdering in September last year.
In March, the couple received maximum prison sentences for abusing adopted children.
February The judge ordered the establishment of a monitor to oversee the state child protection services in hotels and camps on Friday after a 12 -year -old boy tried to commit suicide in a hotel room. The action came on the same day that the federal judge dismissed a long -term class action against the Western Virginia Welfare System on behalf of children for many years.