RCAP investigating adding domestic violence support

Despite a preponderance of statistical evidence that domestic violence is increasing at an alarming rate Powhatan County does not have an active government program. A U.S. Department of Justice report in 1996 noted approximately two and a quarter million cases of domestic violence in the United States. This figure rose to approximately three million just two years later. The American Institute on Domestic Violence reports that that figure is now over 5.3 million reported incidences per year....Powhatan Today - News: RCAP investigating adding domestic violence support