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solve Virginia’s prison overcrowding crisis.
Benedetti offers shock incarceration, electronic surveillance, and prison privatization as alternatives to more prisons. j
Presenting himself as an avid environmentalist, Benedetti favors the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Act which gives the state control over local zoning laws and establishes guidelines for growth around the bay.
The senator criticized Terry’s handling of Avtex Fibers Inc., Virginia’s largest polluter, likening her approach to “kicking a horse when the horse is about to collapse.”
The rayon-manufacturing company faced a series of state violations and fines this year, forcing it to reduce its plant production output and nearly forcing it to close its doors.
“I would have kicked them earlier when they were healthy or I would have tried to find ways to work out the problem with them,” said Benedetti.
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