WASHINGTON DC: (WSVA) -Virginia’s prison population fell faster than anywhere else in the nation in recent years.
New data from the U-S Department of Justice analyzed incarceration rates across the country from 2021-22.
The research found that over that year, the number of inmates in Virginia state prisons dropped by 10-and-a-half percent.
That’s more than twice as much as second-place Oregon, which saw a five-point-two percent drop in prisoners.
According to D-O-J, most states actually saw an increase in prison population – none more than Mississippi, which incarcerated over 14 percent more people in 2022 than the year prior.