Prisons are the number one growth industry in Virginia.
Twenty prisons were built in the last 20 years, totaling 43 in Virginia. Despite our politicians' efforts to 'clean up our streets', most of the cells remain empty in Virginia's two recently built 'Super Max' prisons. To make the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge mega-prisons profitable, Virginia has had to import prisoners from other states to fill the cells and provide corporations with cheap prison labor. Virginia Republicans will tell you with pride that our death penalty is the most efficient in the country. Governor Killmore's' old-fashioned Virginia justice has got to go.