As part of their sentence, criminals are often asked to pay restitution to their victims. But in Virginia the money often goes uncollected and unpaid.
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One of the highlight compromises this legislative session is a deal to raise the felony larceny threshold.
The flipside of that deal is a crackdown on restitution. That’s the out of pocket costs criminals are often ordered to pay to their victims.
And Mallory Noe-Payne reports it often goes uncollected and unpaid in Virginia.
Virginia Public Radio 