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Amended bill to limit solitary confinement heads to Senate floor

Amended bill to limit solitary confinement heads to Senate floor (Observer file photo) By Noah Fleischman | February 3, 2021 at 5:03 PM EST - Updated February 3 at 7:20 PM RICHMOND, Va. - David Smith remembers dancing to music in his head and having conversations with television shows during 16 months in solitary confinement at Norfolk City Jail. “Your mind plays tricks on you,” Smith said. “There was a slow disconnect with reality. I didn’t recognize the pain that was happening in me, nor did I have the emotional strength to fight back, institutionally.” Smith is no longer an inmate, but his goal is to end the torture that he said Virginia inmates have endured while sitting in solitary confinement. Smith served a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to 10 counts of possession of child pornography in 2013. Now Smith works with the Virginia Coalition on Solitary Confinement to lead the charge for legislative change.

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Amended solitary confinement bill heads to Virginia Senate

Amended solitary confinement bill heads to Virginia Senate Follow Us Question of the Day By NOAH FLEISCHMAN of Capital News Service - Associated Press - Wednesday, February 3, 2021 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - David Smith remembers dancing to music in his head and having conversations with television shows during 16 months in solitary confinement at Norfolk City Jail. “Your mind plays tricks on you,” Smith said. “There was a slow disconnect with reality. I didn’t recognize the pain that was happening in me, nor did I have the emotional strength to fight back, institutionally.” Smith is no longer an inmate, but his goal is to end the torture that he said Virginia inmates have endured while sitting in solitary confinement. Smith served a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to 10 counts of possession of child poronography in 2013. Now Smith works with the Virginia Coalition on Solitary

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Committee advances bill to end death penalty to Virginia Senate floor

Committee advances bill to end death penalty to Virginia Senate floor by Tyler Arnold, The Center Square | January 27, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article A Virginia Senate committee voted Tuesday to advance legislation that would abolish the death penalty in the commonwealth. Senate Bill 1165, sponsored by Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Mount Vernon, would eliminate the use of the death penalty in Virginia, including for those who are on death row. Four people are on death row in Virginia, and the state’s last execution was in 2017. Since 2010, eight people have been executed in the state. Other recent efforts to abolish the death penalty in the commonwealth have failed to move through the committee process.

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Northam, Grimm participate in town hall on Va transgender students

Northam, Grimm participate in town hall on Va transgender students
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Republicans accuse Northam of trying to pack Virginia courts

Republicans accuse Northam of trying to pack Virginia courts
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