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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.
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]
JPay is a privately held information technology and financial services provider focused on serving the United States prison system.With headquarters in Miramar, Florida, the company contracts with state, county, and federal prisons and jails to provide technologies and services including money transfer, email, video visitation and parole and probation payments to approximately 1.5 million ...
VIRGINIA BEACH — An inmate at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center died Monday morning after a medical emergency, according to the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office. Kevin Lorenzo Jones, 36 ...
VDSS was established in 1982 when the Virginia General Assembly renamed the Department of Welfare to the Department of Social Services. [6] The Department of Welfare was an active agency of the Department of Institutions from 1974 until 1982. [7]
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
It thus contributed an increase in capacity to the Virginia Corrections system that allowed the state to contractually accept inmates from outside the state. [9] In 1999, the District of Columbia Department of Corrections was paying the Virginia Department of Corrections to house 69 prisoners at the Red Onion State Prison. [ 5 ]
Member of the Virginia jihad network; convicted in 2007 of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to FBI agents and a grand jury investigating a training camp run by Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaeda. [27] Juelz Santana: 71438-050 Served a 27 month prison sentence, released February 21, 2021