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Virginia Rescinds Death Row Video Visitation Policy

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report via the Richmond Times-Dispatch.  It's written by Dena Potter.  LINKThe Virginia Department of Corrections dropped plans to end face-to-face visits between death-row inmates and their families yesterday, saying prison officials determined the policy wasn't necessary.The department had planned to require all death-row visits be done via video beginning Sept. 1. Virginia would have been only the second death-penalty state to cut out face-to-face visits.Inmates' families and prisoner advocates condemned the planned policy change, calling it "cruel and unnecessary."The policy change had been advanced by Sussex I State Prison, which houses 11 male inmates on Virginia's death row, Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 30, 2010 (boomark / email).