Fish tanks, salads and rec time among rewards of Virginia prison incentive program

Fish tanks, all-day recreation, an upgraded salad bar.

Those are some of the benefits allowed to well-behaved prisoners at Lawrenceville Correctional Center, where, for the past year, the Virginia Department of Corrections has experimented with a new accountability program intended to improve prison safety. In the wake of that program’s success, the program will spread to as many as six prisons by the end of the year, the agency said. Government-politics

Buckingham prisons get 'Virginia Model' makeovers

HAWES SPENCER The Daily Progress

The program, dubbed the “Virginia Model,” will now be offered at the Buckingham Correctional Center, Dillwyn Correctional Center and a housing unit in the Greensville Correctional Center. In a letter to the entire inmate population released in July,