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Mecklenburg Correctional Center was a maximum security prison operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections in unincorporated Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States, [1] near Boydton. It was closed in 2012 due to a decrease in the number of inmates in the Virginia corrections system and expensive ongoing maintenance needs.
Mecklenburg Correctional Center: Boydton: Closed 2012 Nottoway Correctional Center: Burkeville: 1,112 Patrick Henry Correctional Unit Ridgeway: 136 Pocahontas State Correctional Center: Pocahontas: 1,034 Powhatan Correctional Center Closed 2015 Red Onion State Prison: Pound: 848 River North Correctional Center: Independence: 1,024 Rustburg ...
McDowell Correctional Center (consolidated w/ Marion CI) (July 1996) Mecklenburg Correctional Center (December 1998) Montgomery Correctional Center (consolidated w/ Southern CI) (1997) Moore Correctional Center (June 1995) Nash (minimum) Correctional Center (September 1999) North Piedmont Correctional Center for Women (August 2014)
Prior to August 3, 1998, the male death row was housed at Mecklenburg Correctional Center. [10] The execution chamber was located at the Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt. [11] [12] Through 1990, the male death row was located at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond, which began hosting executions on October 13, 1908.
A 25-year-old man died at the Mecklenburg County jail on Wednesday morning, the Sheriff’s Office said. It’s the fifth death at the uptown facility this year, and the eighth since May 2021.
Linwood and James Briley were the ringleaders in a six-inmate escape from Virginia's death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center on May 31, 1984. During the early moments of the escape, in which a coordinated effort resulted in inmates taking over the death row unit, both Brileys expressed strong interest in killing the captured guards by ...
Mecklenburg County employs more than 5,900 workers, from social service managers and planners to nurses and librarians. Nearly 400 workers earn more than $100,000 a year, according to county data.
The prison, a maximum security facility, opened in May 1998. [4] It serves as an intake facility. [5] It housed the state death row for men from the time it was moved from Mecklenburg Correctional Center in August, 1998 until the abolition of the death penalty in July, 2021. The actual execution chamber was at the Greensville Correctional ...