VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Roughly 1.3 million meals each year are prepared in the Virginia Beach Correctional Center’s Inmate Kitchen, yet it has not been upgraded since it opened 20 years ago. That all changed last month.
Ottis Smith, who is serving time at the correctional center, is set to be released soon. He said the recent $457,000 kitchen modernization will go a long way toward improving lives, like his, moving forward.
“It’s been nothing but a growing experience,” Smith said…