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  2. Prison commissary - Wikipedia

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    Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.

  3. Federal Correctional Institution, Petersburg - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Correctional Institution, Petersburg (FCI Petersburg) is a United States federal prison for low- and medium-security male inmates. It is part of the Petersburg Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Virginia and operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite ...

  4. Federal Prison Industries - Wikipedia

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    It was created in 1934 as a prison labor program within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Under US federal law, all physically abled inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work, either for UNICOR or at some other prison job. [4] [5] As of 2021, inmates earned between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour. [6]

  5. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    This was a decrease of twenty percent in the inmate population from just four years earlier when there were 29,347 inmates in the system. [7] A 2011 study showed among the 36 states that report felon recidivism — defined as re-imprisonment within three years of release — Virginia has the fourth lowest recidivism rate in the United States. [8]

  6. Lawmakers call for further inquiry into Virginia prison that ...

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    A raft of hypothermia hospitalizations and other questionable conditions at a Virginia prison uncovered in a recent report deserve further scrutiny, leading Democratic state lawmakers said this week.

  7. Indian Creek Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    On November 8, 2014, inmate Dai’Yaan Qamar Longmire, 19, committed suicide while in solitary confinement at Indian Creek Correctional Center. A lawsuit filed by Longmire's mother against the Virginia Department of Corrections and ICCC, states he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder , depression , ADHD and anxiety before his incarceration in ...

  8. Virginia prison officials won't divulge complaints about ...

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    The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public ...

  9. Death of intellectually disabled inmate at Virginia prison ...

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    The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed ...