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Photo by VBTV Videos. Virginia Beach Sheriff Ken Stolle talks to the city council about the jail initiative. The Virginia Sheriffs' Association wants to take the program statewide.
Virginia Sheriffs Want To Expand A Virginia Beach Program That Helps Inmates Upon Release
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Published: 04 June 2021
City officials say a program to support newly released jail inmates keeps almost all participants from coming back into the system after they left.
The Virginia Sheriff's Association has taken note, and they want the program to go statewide.
It started seven years ago as a series of conversations between officials in the sheriff's office and the city's department of human services, according to Aileen Smith, Virginia Beach's director of human services.