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Virginia Downsizing Overbuilt Supermaxes

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News February, 2004, page 31
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders. Location: Virginia.
Critics have long claimed that Virginia grossly overestimated its need for supermaxesprisons that ostensibly house "the-worst of the worst." Early in 2003, Virginia undertook actions which reduced the number of beds classified as supermax from 2,400 to 550. This seems to confirm the criticism.


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