Justice Reform

Thousands are eligible for federal tuition grants, but fewer can attend.

18 people have died while incarcerated at the Prince George facility.

Medical providers expressed concern about temperatures at the Marion Correctional Treatment Facility where inmates have been hospitalized at least 13 times for hypothermia over the last three years.

Caroline Ouko, Irvo Otieno's mother, said, “We shouldn’t have to wait for justice.”

On the Home Cooked podcast, Olivia Weeks explores the drug’s trajectory during the past 50 years.

Eastern Mennonite University, located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, began the nation’s first graduate level program related to restorative justice. Now students come from around the world to study big ideas about reform on this small college campus.

Restorative justice is a practice that originated in the 1970s. But how does it work, and why is it being used? Many agencies turn to it as a practice in an effort to reduce punitive measures.

The first veterans treatment docket in Virginia was established in Fairfax in 2015, and since that time, there are eight additional courts. Fairfax also has drug and mental health treatment dockets—all meant to provide mentors and special services so that individuals can avoid jail and cure the issues that led to their issues with law enforcement.

A local jail is combating recidivism with a program that aims to rehabilitate inmates.

House of Bread offers skills training to women in the Roanoke area who were previously incarcerated, under-resourced.