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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
Appalachian Detention Center Honaker: 1066 Baskerville Correctional Center Baskerville: 488 Bland Correctional Center Bland: 621 Brunswick Work Center Lawrenceville: 708 Buckingham Correctional Center: Dillwyn: 1,100 Caroline Correctional Unit Hanover: 137 Central Virginia Correctional Unit #13 Chesterfield: 250 Coffeewood Correctional Center ...
The number of elderly prisoners has increased in Virginia's inmate population since the Commonwealth's abolition of parole in 1994. [2] It is a level-two security prison (medium). [3] The site is adjacent to Virginia's former Southampton Correctional Center, which was established in 1938 as an agricultural facility.
A new facility was built and operated continuously afterwards until it too was demolished in 1992. In 1896, a penal farm operation (James River Correctional Center) was established in Goochland County for "miscreants and the infirm." This facility closed April 1, 2011, but the James River Work Center continues to operate in that same location ...
Convicted for his role in the 2002 DC Sniper attacks and sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment in both Virginia and Maryland for the murders of ten victims. He was originally sent to Red Onion State Prison, following conviction, but was transferred to Keen Mountain Correctional Center in 2024. [17] [18] [19]
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.
The River North Correctional Center is a state prison for men located in Independence, Grayson County, Virginia, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. [ 1 ] The facility was opened in 2013 and has a working capacity of 1024 prisoners held at a medium security level.
Alexandria City Jail (formally William G. Truesdale - Alexandria Adult Detention Center) is a jail facility at 2001 Mill Road, Alexandria, Virginia, serving several courts and police agencies in Northern Virginia, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, commonly called the Alexandria federal court.