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  2. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...

  3. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Department of Corrections ( VADOC) is the government agency responsible for community corrections and operating prisons and correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies ...

  4. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Caroline Correctional Unit Hanover: 137 Central Virginia Correctional Unit #13 Chesterfield: 250 Coffeewood Correctional Center: Mitchells: 1,193 Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 Greenville: 150 Culpeper Correctional Facility for Women Culpeper: Closed as of 2014: Deep Meadow Correctional Center Powhatan County: 840 Deerfield Correctional ...

  5. Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia

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    24279. Country. United States. Website. vadoc .virginia .gov /facilities /western /redonion /. Red Onion State Prison ( ROSP) is a supermax state prison located in unincorporated Wise County, Virginia, [4] near Pound. Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800 inmates. [3] The prison opened in August 1998.

  6. United States Disciplinary Barracks - Wikipedia

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    United States Disciplinary Barracks. /  39.37833°N 94.93528°W  / 39.37833; -94.93528. The United States Disciplinary Barracks ( USDB ), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility [2] located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas. It is one of two major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth ...

  7. List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and ...

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    In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [12] [13] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [9] the overall incarceration rate in the US was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [14] England and ...

  8. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. [1] Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods. [2] [3] [4] The industry underwent many transitions throughout the late 19th and early and mid 20th centuries.

  9. CoreCivic - Wikipedia

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    CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America ( CCA ), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto, it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority ...