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VA: Measure to reduce cost of prison system dies in subcommittee

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Del. Todd Gilbert of Wood stock disregarded the 13,000-plus signature petitions presented by Lillie Branch Kennedy of RIHD ? Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged. Del. Gilbert stated that the petition signatures didn?t hold much weight for him because he felt that there was already enough incentive for prisoners to do better...." Measure to reduce cost of prison system dies in subcommittee Op-Ed by Keith William DeBlasio In a time when the fiscal crunch is always the topic and House Republicans claim to be fiscally responsible, a House subcommittee consisting of just four delegates refused to advance a bill that reduce the cost of corrections. Del. Dwight C. Jones of Richmond offered legislation, HB 906, that would have afforded Virginia prisoners 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).