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Virginia does a thorough job of inspecting local and regional jails and investigating deaths inside those facilities.But a state review finds better…
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It’s been a rough summer for residents of the state’s 18 prisons that lack air conditioning. Inmates say temperatures inside often exceed 100 degrees, and…
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People locked up in at least 17 prisons around the country are in the midst of a three-week strike – organizing sit-ins, refusing to work or eat. Virginia…
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Virginia has about thirty thousand people in its prisons, and for each one it spends $2.10 a day on food. Now, one inmate is suing, alleging the daily…
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There are now more than 30,000 people in Virginia prisons, costing taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year. A growing number are senior citizens with…
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In 1995, Virginia abolished parole -- a change that led to crowding of state prisons and longer stays behind bars. Now, small cracks have developed in the…
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As the Obama administration draws to a close, officials at the Justice Department are busy commuting sentences of people convicted for drug offenses,…
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Leaders in Arlington are settling a federal lawsuit against a jail for failing to offer services to a deaf inmate. As Michael Pope reports, the settlement…
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Virginia is already spending over a billion dollars a year on its department of corrections - a system responsible for more than 30,000 prisoners. To meet…
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Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe is fighting back against Republican criticism that his executive order restoring voting rights to former felons. The…