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  • Virginia Conversations is a weekly, live, listener-call in talk show produced by WVTF Public Radio. Airing on several Virginia Public Radio stations, this…
  • 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…
  • Crisis in Correctional Care: Inmates Alledge 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…
  • Crisis 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…
  • Crisis 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…
  • Crisis 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…
  • A new church in southwestern Virginia is looking to local culture to inspire its congregation. It celebrates the Appalachian spirit of community and…