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Send Virginia foreign prison inmates home
By augustafreepress.com- Douglas E Morris
Published: 05/21/2015

I’m fairly certain that it’s not news that Virginia prisons are seriously overcrowded and continue to face severe budget shortages. What most people probably do not know, however, is that while our prisons suffer under these conditions, they also continue to pay for the incarceration of foreign, non-U.S. citizen prisoners.

Maybe I missed a memo somewhere indicating that Virginia had started a financial aid program helping prisons in foreign countries by housing their inmates for them. Which then begs the question: What the heck are we doing paying for these foreigners to be housed in Virginia prisons? Call me cuckoo, but what we should be doing instead is sending these foreign law-breakers back to serve their time in prisons in their own countries. This would save Virginia quite a bit of money, and it would ease Virginia’s prison overcrowding as well. A win-win situation if ever there was one.

There are no exact numbers as to how many non-citizen prisoners are being held in the Virginia Department of Corrections, but according to the US Department of Justice, nationwide, a reported 95,977 non-citizens were held in state custody in 2010. Being one of fifty states, let’s assume that Virginia has one fiftieth of that number, which would mean that there are around 2,000 non-citizen inmates in Virginia prisons.

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