From behind bars to in front of an audience
By Susan Nienow STAFF WRITER
     Paula Johnson knows about trying to be a parent from behind bars. Her first incarceration was a work release program so she saw her daughters, but the second jailing only allowed her to see them through glass. That one in 2004 was her wakeup call.
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About the DRC
     The Chesterfield/Colonial Heights Day Reporting Center provides an alternative to individuals recommended to the program by judges or corrections officials. Through treatment and educational resources, offenders are given the chance to become drug-free, employed and valued members of society. Or, th
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Hero-kindergartner and his teacher saluted
     Five-year-old Adam Dalton couldn't get his mom to wake up the morning of March 6.
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