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Operated by GEO Group as Virginia's only private state prison, until Aug. 1, 2024, when the State took it over. [4] Lunenburg Correctional Center: Victoria: 1,200 Marion Correctional Treatment Center Marion: 375 Mental health hospital Mecklenburg Correctional Center: Boydton: Closed 2012 Nottoway Correctional Center: Burkeville: 1,112
On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. [3] The Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989. The regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails. [4]
Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800 inmates. [3] The prison opened in August 1998. It was the model for and is practically identical to Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap , the state's second supermax facility, which opened in 1999.
Jail or Agency: Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority - Amherst County Adult Detention Center; State: Virginia; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/26/2016; Age at death: 23; Sources: Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, wset.com, www.newsadvance.com
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 ...
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]
Northern Regional Jail: In use (2007) Moundsville, West Virginia: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE 14 (2007) Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Home (NOVA) In use (2008) Alexandria, Virginia: Prison - juvenile detention Secure DHS/ ICE 2 (2007 Northwest Detention Center (Tacoma Contract Detention Facility) In use (2009) Tacoma, Washington
With the division of West Virginia from Virginia during the American Civil War, the Western District of Virginia became the District of West Virginia, and those parts of the Western District that were not part of West Virginia were combined with the Eastern District to form again a single District of Virginia on June 11, 1864, by 13 Stat. 124. [2]