Prison Reform In The Commonwealth And Those We Vote For In 2023

We posed a number of questions directly and individually to all of the candidates running for Virginia's General Assembly in 2023 seeking our votes. The questions,(which we present here), dealt with The Virginia Department Of Corrections. Our intent and purpose is to demystify the realities of imprisonment in the Commonwealth and to elevate focus on Virginia's prisons and imprisonment scheme separate from the same old narrative that is nothing short of governmental schizophrenia and crime victims, families of prisoners and Virginia's Social Contract require more than the stale, tough on crime refrain that historically has only been opportunity to deflect, as such as voters we can see for ourselves who among those asking for our votes at least understands that the same ole same ole politics of hypocrisy and scapegoating is fetid.

Questions

1. Do you commit to a comprehensive review of VADOC and the philosophy of its Dir. Harold Clarke #OnTheRecordVA
2. Why should taxpayers vote for you, when you don't know what to do about VADOC? #OnTheRecordVA
3.  A practical way to bring accountability to VADOC is establishing office of prisoner grievance independent of VADOC, will you work for this? #OnTheRecordVA

Here is what some of the potential candidates said in response to the questions of those who answered.

Delegate Cia Price

Jade Harris

Victoria Luevanos

Monica Gary

Dave LaRock

The rest didn't respond as such their silence is a response and the voter should reach their own conclusions.

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