Crisis in Correctional Care: The Series Begins
There are about 30,000 Virginians in state prisons, and Virginia spends more than $25,000 a year to house each of them, making the Department of Corrections the most expensive agency in Richmond, with...
View ArticleCrisis in Correctional Care: Inmates Allege Medical Neglect
The state of Virginia spends an average of $5,300 a year per inmate for medical care in prisons, and that cost has been rising 5-7 percent per year, but taxpayers may not be getting their money’s...
View ArticleCrisis in Correctional Care: Mental Illness
Fifty years ago, this country began closing mental hospitals where people with psychiatric disorders were often warehoused. The idea was to send patients back to their communities, where they would...
View ArticleCrisis in Correctional Care: Elderly Inmates
The United States has more people in prisons and jails than any other country in the world -- 2.2 million inmates -- a 500% increase over the past thirty years. We’re also a graying society, with...
View ArticleCrisis in Correctional Care: Pressing for Prison Reform
By the end of this year, California must release 9,600 prisoners from the nation’s largest correctional system, because the Supreme Court says overcrowding makes it impossible to provide adequate...
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