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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, n...

Commonwealth looking to fix COVID-19 vax scheduling problem Shawna De La Rosa | Jan 20, 2021 Share this: There is still a scheduling gap when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Virginia. Daniel Carey, Virginia secretary of Health and Human Services, addressed this issue with the House of Delegates’ Health, Welfare and Institutions committee earlier this week as he broke down Gov. Larry Northam’s health care-related budget amendment proposals.     “In the technology around scheduling, there is a still a gap,” Carey told the committee. “That’s a deficit. T...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers are spearheading a push to...

By Hans Bader | January 15, 2021 | 4:04pm EST Featured is a gavel sculpture outside the Supreme Court of Ohio. (Photo credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Life sentences without parole may be abolished this year in Virginia, even for serial killers and those who once would have been sentenced to death. The powerful head of the state senate's Courts of Justice Committee, Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke), has just introduced a bill, SB 1370, to bring back parole, and retroactively make people eligible for parole even if they were sentenced at a time at which the...

Virginia is moving towards becoming a safe haven for those seeking an abortion and reproductive healthcare, but its citizens on Medicaid, state exchange insurance, and in prison lack critical access