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2. Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia

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   Opportunities for education and work are more limited than in most prisons due to the higher security level; however, Red Onion offers janitorial work, a GED program, and a literacy program. [16] The prison uses a video education system which allows the playing of prerecorded video files over 5" CCTV screens. [16] [17] [18]

3. Prison-to-college programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Inmates at Hillsborough County Juvenile Detention Centre in 2020. Prison-to-college programs exist around the world, providing opportunities for higher education to current and formerly incarcerated individuals in efforts to increase employment opportunities and reduce post-release recidivism rates. [1]

4. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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   Goochland County: Closed April 1, 2011 Keen Mountain Correctional Center: Oakwood: 879 Lawrenceville Correctional Center: Lawrenceville: 1,555 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 ...

5. Pocahontas State Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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   The Pocahontas State Correctional Center is a medium-security prison located on 35 acres (140,000 m 2) in Tazewell County, [1] just west of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia. The $68.6 million facility was completed in the summer of 2007, and opened in September, 2007.

6. Federal Correctional Complex, Petersburg - Wikipedia

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   His original residence was Suffolk, Virginia. [10] [13] Kareem Allen Shaw, age 46, was serving a sentence for a conviction in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a measurable quantity of heroin. His original residence was Harrisonburg, Virginia. [10] [14]

7. Prison education - Wikipedia

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   A study in 1994 of 34 countries found that half offered basic literacy programmes to inmates, and one-third a form of education higher than that. [158] In 2004, 27% of US inmates participated in an education course, [132] and in 2005, 35–42% of US prisons were offering

8. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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   Gradually, Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement. After the Revolutionary War, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson began to urge the state to construct a "penitentiary house." At that time, penitentiary houses were then beginning being used throughout Europe to confine and reform criminals.

9. Work release - Wikipedia

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   Also, inmates who participate in work release programs are able to acquire jobs nearly twice as fast when compared to inmates who do not participate. Studies have shown that inmates who took part in a work release program received higher pay in their jobs after being released.