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(The Center Square) - Victims’ services providers daily see the toll that violent crime takes on the survivors who walk through their doors. In Lancaster, they joined the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to give support for the Victim Compensation Assistance Program, or VCAP, which they say plays an essential role in mitigating the […]

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