RICHMOND — One delegate is a Republican businessman spearheading efforts to pass a conservative public school agenda for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R).
The other is the outspoken leader of the House Democrats, a barb-tongued defense lawyer who regularly gets under Youngkin’s skin with partisan attacks.
But Del. Glenn R. Davis Jr. (R-Virginia Beach) and House Minority Leader Don L. Scott Jr. (D-Portsmouth) have united across the aisle to seek a major policy change: ending the use of solitary confinement in Virginia’s prisons. All because the two took an unlikely field trip together last month to one of the state’s most notorious maximum-security facilities.
On Friday, the House of Delegates passed their bill — HB 2487 — unanimously, 99-0. It’ll next go to the state Senate, where a similar bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph D. Morrissey (D-Richmond) advanced out of committee Thursday and is headed to a floor vote next week. Read more>>
