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The VADOC is an agency of the Virginia Office of Public Safety. Virginia Secretary of Public Safety Terrance Cole oversees 12 government agencies, including the VADOC. The VADOC's department director Chadwick Dotson was appointed to the position by Governor Glenn Youngkin in September 2023 to succeed Harold Clarke, who had announced his ...
Chadwick Dotson [1] [2] [3] Keen Mountain Correctional Center is a level 4, maximum security correctional facility in Oakwood, Virginia. It opened in 1990 and houses up to 1200 adult male offenders.
Dotson's wife, not initially realizing the people outside her home were police, fired at the officers from the same doorway, allegedly with Dotson's handgun, but put the gun down after realizing they were in fact police officers. Dotson died at the scene. His wife and the police officers were not injured. [28] 2023-04-03 James Corey Donald (45 ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A K-9 was killed “heroically” protecting a correctional officer, who was responding to a violent attack involving apparent gang members, Virginia prison officials said.
A husband, aged 64, and his wife, 66, were both slain, according to the sheriff’s office. Their son, age 35, was wounded by gunfire and taken to an area hospital. The son made the 911 call ...
An attempt to secure public funds to hire an expert for a man accused in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Bolton High School student drew comments from the victim's mother.
Former VADOC director Ronald J. Angelone, during whose term (1994–2002) Red Onion was designed and opened, defended the supermax system as necessary to avoid violence, saying: "There is no Department of Corrections magic wand that makes them decent human beings while in prison.
In 2009, Dotson received a phone call from his brother, who told him his cousin, 33-year-old James Tyson, was shot and killed by two Syracuse Police Department detectives during a shootout after a ...