A Republican and a Democrat in the House of Delegates took a field trip together to a prison. Now they've teamed up to seek a ban on solitary confinement.
by Yale Law School found that while the use of solitary confinement has declined in American prisons, as many as 48,000 people were held in isolation in U.S. prison cells as of July 2021. Only three states reported no inmates in such conditions, the study found.
When Davis called, Scott suggested they travel to a prison together to see conditions firsthand. He quickly arranged a visit to Sussex 1, a facility near the town of Waverly that housed death row until Virginia eliminated capital punishment in 2021.The two lawmakers met at the prison. They spent an hour talking with corrections officials, then toured the facility and met with inmates to talk about conditions.
The stakeholders were crucial, Scott said. “We got a full viewpoint. And so from that came, how do we codify this? Nobody should be in a cell without coming out every day for some time. And that’s what we did.
“We may disagree on a lot, but we also agree on a lot. And the great thing is we’re also kind of, you know, detail nerds. So we know that this is the art of the possible,” Davis said.
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