Charles Kane

Review of Virginia Beach Sheriff's Offic...

I'm very disappointed in the Sherrifs Office, the ...

I'm very disappointed in the Sherrifs Office, the City of Virginia Beach and the State of Virginia for the abuses it allows of the friends and family of inmates. Why do you make friends and family have to pay for basic living conditions?

The services offered by the Sherrifs department are poor, but the fact that they hold friends and family hostage over the conditions offered to inmates is criminal. All of the communications, food, clothing and miscellaneous services offered are thru outsourced companies that pay kickbacks to the city and charge ridiculous fees to friends and family. The websites are terrible, always have glitches, and often aren't functioning. There is no mechanism for registering a problem or making a complaint. The delivery process is 50+ years out of date. What is the justification for punishing friends and family of inmates? They are often victims too!

City officials should be ashamed and should be brought up on criminals charges themselves.

It's even worse for the people without friends and family for the city to blackmail. These people suffer suffer thru very poor conditions with no help.