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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
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
But not all mug shots get such positive attention. 58-year-old Kevin Gibson made news for his unusual mugshot in which he was featured with a full, white beard on the left side of his face while ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Fredericksburg's daily newspaper is The Free Lance–Star. The Free Lance was first published in 1885, and competed with two twice-weekly papers in the city during the late 19th century, the Fredericksburg News and The Virginia Star. While the News folded in 1884, the Star moved to daily publication in 1893. In 1900, the two companies merged ...
Melvin David Rees (1928 – October 26, 1995) was an American serial killer who committed five murders in Virginia and Maryland between 1957 and 1959. [1] He murdered and sexually assaulted (in that order) Margaret Harold, the girlfriend of US Army soldier Sgt. Roy D. Hudson, [2] during a highway encounter near Annapolis.
Her remains were located in February 2020 after her adoptive father confessed to her murder. He was previously charged with the 1980 murder of a woman in Virginia. [58] Sue Ann Huskey: c. September 1989 17 Williamson County, Texas Unsolved, identified Victim remained unidentified until January 2020. [59] Jacob Wetterling: c. October 22, 1989 11