By Ned Oliver (VM) – State prison officials estimate that more than 14,000 inmates in…
Category: Crime and courts
‘Threat to health care and civil rights’ Barrett confirmed
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA) – Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge with a stated…
COVID outbreak widens at Baskerville prison
By Susan Kyte (SoVaNow) – A renewed virus outbreak at Baskerville Correctional Center has driven…
VADOC, VDH, CDC work to manage COVID-19 outbreak at Deerfield
Weekly testing of infirmary and assisted living staff began in response to a recently added VDH testing requirement for nursing homes.
Collapsing inmates, cold hot dogs and one nurse: quarantine in a Virginia prison
By Ned Oliver (VM) -It was early July and Virginia prison officials thought they had…
VADOC expands medication assisted treatment program
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is expanding its drug reentry treatment program “in order…
Judge orders Kanye West removed from Virginia ballot
Entertainer Kanye West has been removed from Virginia’s ballot for November’s election following a temporary…
Girl who hired hitmen to kill her abusive parents has been sentenced to life in prison.
By Dani Hendrix Jennifer Pan grew up in a horribly controlling household. She was a…
Driver who caused 3 traffic deaths is arrested
With the assistance of the United States Marshal Service, police arrested Travis Benjamin Vigil, this…
In Va., records detailing police misconduct and use of force are effectively secret
By Ned Oliver (VM) – The White state trooper leaned into the Black driver’s car….
