Category: Crime and courts

By now the widely shared video of a Black woman security officer defending herself after she was hit by one of the angry pro-Trump extremists on Jan.

By Ned Oliver VM - Members of the Virginia Crime Commission voted overwhelmingly this week to endorse legislation stripping all mandatory minimum s

CNS - Prisons are divided into “zones” to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Inmates have been given personal protective equipment. Visitation is c

By Ned Oliver (VM) - Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, said it wasn’t just a pungent odor that struck him during a recent visit to the city’s newly opene

By Ned Oliver (VM) - A circuit court judge in Fairfax appears to be the first in Virginia to rule that keeping an indigent defendant in jail in lie

By Ned Oliver (VM) - State prison officials estimate that more than 14,000 inmates in Virginia could see their release dates moved up under legis

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA) - Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge with a stated opposition to the Affordable Care Act and many Civil Rights laws,

By Susan Kyte (SoVaNow) - A renewed virus outbreak at Baskerville Correctional Center has driven up Mecklenburg County’s COVID-19 caseload and plac

Following the deaths of 10 inmates, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has taken "major steps" to manage the COVID-19 outbreak at Deerfiel