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By an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1944, the VADOC was officially formed out of the former Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions, the Virginia Parole Board, and the Virginia Department of Probation and Parole Services. Today, the VADOC oversees all operations of the Commonwealth's corrections facilities.
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: Mitchells: 1,193 Cold Springs Correctional ...
Wallens Ridge State Prison is a level 5 state prison located in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, housing approximately 1,200 inmates. Since opening in April 1999, it has been a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections, and is identical to the Red Onion State Prison near Pound. [1] The prison was built for over $70 million.
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 ...
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. [5] [6]
Rivan, who was killed Tuesday, April 2, 2024, breaking up an inmate skirmish at Sussex I State Prison near Waverly, had been on the job since 2019, the Virginia Department of Corrections said.
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 May ...
Sussex I State Prison is a prison of the Virginia Department of Corrections located in unincorporated Sussex County, Virginia, [2] near Waverly. [3] It is adjacent to Sussex II State Prison, which lies to its northwest, just across Mussellwhite Drive. The prison, a maximum security facility, opened in May 1998. [4] It serves as an intake ...