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Virginia Sets Guidelines for Terminally-Ill Prisoners
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 8
Virginia Sets Guidelines For Terminally-Ill Prisoners The state of Virginia has released a policy to handle requests by terminally-ill prisoners for early release. The policy was developed in response to a request by Alex Velazquez, a prisoner at Powhatan Correctional Center, to be allowed to go home to Brooklyn, N.Y., …
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