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Deaths in Custody
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Virginia sees more than a dozen homicides in state-run prisons.
Prisoner rights advocates are vocal in their opposition to solitary confinement, which Virginia says doesn’t exist at its facilities. Instead, the restorative housing program is the subject of two, new reports. And the way those reports came to be, as well as deaths in state prisons, calls up the question of whether there is adequate outside oversight
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Deaths in Custody
Clip: Season 1 Episode 19 | 9m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Prisoner rights advocates are vocal in their opposition to solitary confinement, which Virginia says doesn’t exist at its facilities. Instead, the restorative housing program is the subject of two, new reports. And the way those reports came to be, as well as deaths in state prisons, calls up the question of whether there is adequate outside oversight
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