Ben Hitchcock

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Under scrutiny

The nation is up in arms. After the murder of George Floyd, protesters filled the streets of Charlottesville,...

Hey, hey, hey, goodbye

  The six-story-tall equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee has towered over Richmond’s Monument Avenue since 1890. Soon,...

Zero crimes, zero cases

  As the pandemic took hold in mid-March, Charlottesville and Albemarle’s criminal justice decision-makers started...

‘A total disaster’

  “When we found out he had it, we was pretty sure he was going to die,” says a sibling of a man incarcerated in...

‘We got a lot of history in th

  A crane looms over a huge glass rectangle. The shiny office block, just completed, sits behind Preston Avenue’s old...

Primary roundup

  Three Marines and a doctor walk into a bar… Cards on the table: It’s going to be difficult for a Democrat to win...

COVID cases soar in Buckingham state prisons;...

Correctional facilities, where inmates live in tight quarters, have proven (entirely predictably) to be hotbeds for...

Stop and smell the roses

  Just about everything has changed in the last month—and as our habits have shifted, so has our relationship with...

A Ramadan like none before

  Coping with coronavirus is hard even when you’re surrounded by all your favorite creature comforts. And observing...

Furloughed future

  Local newspapers faced an uncertain future even before coronavirus ground life as we know it to a halt. Now, with...