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This year, Congress approved a series of reforms to the criminal justice system – changes that should reduce the number of people in federal prisons. In…
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Virginia’s Department of Corrections spends over a billion dollars a year to operate 41 prisons where it holds about 30,000 inmates. Another 7,000 are…
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Officials have designated this “Second Chance Month” for about 37,000 state prisoners. Those who committed their crimes before 1995 are eligible for…
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Since Virginia abolished parole in 1995 there’s been just one way for most inmates to win an early release from state prisons – asking for a pardon from…