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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  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. Category:Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Virginia v. John Brown. Categories: Capital punishment in the United States by state. Virginia law. Penal system in Virginia. Death in Virginia. Murder in Virginia.

  6. Virginia State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Virginia State Penitentiary was a prison in Richmond, Virginia. Towards the end of its life it was a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections . Early 1900s. First opening in 1800, the prison was completed in 1804; it was built due to a reform movement preceding its construction. [1] Thomas Jefferson initiated these reforms and submitted ...

  7. 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.

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.