Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged (RIHD), an advocacy group of prisoners and their families working on issues related to incarceration, holds a Mobile Justice Tour each year, during which they hold public meetings at different stops around the state.
Meetings this year will follow this basic agenda:
1. Criminal Discovery Reform (presented by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)
2. Fishback & Sentencing Guideline Reform (presented by RIHD)
3. Reinstating Parole - What it would look like? (presented by RIHD)
4. Introduction of Virginia chapters of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls (NCIFIWG VA) (presented by Lillie Branch-Kennedy)
5. Geratric Parole/Releases (presented by VA-RAPP, Virginia Release Aging People in Prison)
Volunteers will be present at each meeting to provide attendees with Restoration of Rights applications, and to help people look up assistance. All meetings are free and open to the public.
Here's the schedule of meetings:
Thursday, July 20th, 6-8pm, Gethsemane Community Fellowship (1317 Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk VA 23503).
Saturday, July 22, 3-6pm, the Church of the Incarnation (292 North Liberty Street, Harrisonburg VA 22802).
Tuesday, July 25th, 5:30-8pm, Sandston Public Library (23 East Williamsburg Road, Sandston VA 23150).
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