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  2. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Goochland County: Closed April 1, 2011 Keen Mountain Correctional Center: Oakwood: 879 Lawrenceville Correctional Center: Lawrenceville: 1,555 Operated by GEO Group as Virginia's only private state prison, until Aug. 1, 2024. When the State takes it over. [4] Lunenburg Correctional Center: Victoria: 1,200

  3. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Gradually, Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement. After the Revolutionary War, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson began to urge the state to construct a "penitentiary house." At that time, penitentiary houses were then beginning being used throughout Europe to confine and reform criminals.

  4. Franklin County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Franklin County is a county located in the Blue Ridge foothills of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,477. [1] Its county seat is Rocky Mount. [2] Franklin County is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located in the Roanoke Region of Virginia. [3]

  5. Franklin County jail inmate uses shank to stab fellow inmate ...

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    A Franklin County Jail inmate used an 8-inch shank to stab a fellow inmate accused of killing his brother in what court documents described as an attempt at revenge.

  6. Update | Franklin jail officer says he checked on inmate ...

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    Franklin was booked into the jail on Feb. 18 on warrants from Umatilla County, Ore., and was given a standard medical screening as part of the jail booking process, the sheriff’s office said.

  7. Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia

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    Red Onion State Prison (ROSP) is a supermax state prison located in unincorporated Wise County, Virginia, [4] near Pound. Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800 inmates. [3] The prison opened in August 1998.

  8. Law enforcement arrests man wanted in connection with ...

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    Law enforcement agencies in Franklin County, Va., started searching for Emmitt Southern, 55, of Princeton after a shooting was reported about 10:10 a.m. Monday at Cannaday's Store off the Virgil H

  9. 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.