Richmond City Council chambers were filled to capacity the night of Feb. 12, requiring an overflow room to accommodate all the attendees. It was the third general Council meeting this year and the second since members of the Richmond community proposed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
A letter to the editor regarding overdoses and deaths at Greensville Correctional Center, with analysis on how drugs are entering the prison and how to remedy this.
Emily Winfree’s cottage, situated in 1866 in the town of Manchester on the south side of the James River, was saved from demolition in 2002 by being relocated to Shockoe Bottom. Since 2007, however, the small house has been sitting on steel I-beams next to the Lumpkin’s Jail Archaeology site, steadily deteriorating.
The master planning process for the 10-acre park has taken a year to process the history of the area, but also the history of the struggle to bring to fruition the place that should put Richmond on the contemporary map for historical truth-telling about slavery and our city’s role in it.
Jermaine Doss, a wrongfully convicted Norfolk man sentenced to life-plus-34 years, has been turned down for parole for the 4th time.
Editor’s note: On Feb. 16, The Virginia Defender received the following email from Team AFL-CIO, pertaining to the postal pension fund.
The following is an updated version of a Fact Sheet the Defenders have sent to the media and are sending to all 140 members of the 2024 Virginia General Assembly. We are asking that they – and you, our readers – contact VADOC Director Chadwick Dotson and express support for Rashid.
The Virginia Defender 