A new report finds that problems at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation didn’t improve much in 2008, despite the center’s having moved to its new $62 million facility in Nottoway County. The program is the maximum-security home for 130 of the most dangerous sex offenders in Virginia. They are being held indefinitely—at $131,000 apiece each year—under civil-court orders for treatment after their prison sentences ended.

A state oversight committee will hear a plan to transfer a mentally ill patient who has been held in seclusion for 15 years to another facility. The state Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services must present its plan to the State Human Rights Committee to transfer 58-year-old Cesar Chumil from Western State Hospital. The committee, which meets today in Williamsburg, has recommended Chumil be moved because the Hispanic man had not received mental health treatment in his native language of Spanish and has been held in a three-room seclusion suite for almost 20 years, among other reasons. The hospital has argued that Chumil is so violent that it was safer for staff and other patients to keep him in seclusion. Chumil, a native of Guatemala, has been involved in hundreds of assaults on staff and patients and has been housed alone for years in a so-called limited containment suite that allows him limited access to staff and patients.