Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair

Report: Virginia's Justice System Is Expensive, Ineffective, Unfair

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But, the urban street peddlers are usually Blacks who are arrested at a high rate and are retained longer in the system. The JPI report said Virginia has the 8th highest jail incarceration rate in the United States with 1 in 214 adults in Virginia … Read more on Thenewjournalandguide

Americans are serving life in prison – for this?

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At a time when the United States has been slashing preschool programs, we have also been spending vast sums to incarcerate thousands of nonviolent offenders in life sentences without the possibility of parole. These cases … Here's what Judge James R … Read more on TheNewsTribune.com

Even with changes, US prisons might stay overcrowded: report

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The United States incarcerated 2.2 million people in state and federal institutions in 2011, the most recent year for which the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has published data. That tops prison populations in all other countries, according to data … Read more on Reuters