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Update from Virginia

Good bills coming up tomorrow afternoon.

WHAT INCARCERATION COSTS TAXPAYERS

IN FISCAL YEAR 2010, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) had $712.4 million in prison expenditures. However, the state also had $36.2 million in prison-related costs outside the department’s budget. The total cost of Virginia’s prisons—to incarcerate an average daily population of 29,792—was therefore $748.6 million, of which 4.8 percent were costs outside the corrections budget.

Community Restoration Campaign - On the Move

Last week we walked the halls and met with our individual district state legislators and/or legislative aides, expressing our support for the Thousandkites.org Community Restoration Campaign's criminal justice and prison reform focus legislation. You all were great in expressing your concerns, support and opposition to your legislators. A lot of great flip cam footage with many of your legislators.