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. WATCH HERE WATCH HERECommissioner Phyllis Hammond learned in April her uncle, Amos Hammond, was buried at 18 years old in the long-forgotten graveyard. The graveyard in Cheltenham is at the site of the former House of Reformation, a segregated, state-run facility for boys dating to the 1800s. Hammond's death certificate shows he died at the House of Reformation in 1921 of acute peritonitis, which can lead to a life-threatening infection. “And, you know, questionable, very questionable as to how these young men died.