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VA Jails Sue State Prisons
Loaded on June 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1995, page 8
On 30 January 1995, the sheriffs of Arlington, Alexandria and Richmond filed a lawsuit to force the state to remove its prisoners from their jails. The suit was filed in circuit court in Richmond. It says the Virginia DOC is violating a state law that says people convicted of felonies …
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