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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
Bedford is an incorporated town and former independent city located within Bedford County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It serves as the county seat of Bedford County. As of the 2020 census , the population was 6,657.
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom (born April 15, 1964 [1] [better source needed] in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia [2]) is a Canadian citizen who, along with her then boyfriend, Jens Söring, was convicted of orchestrating the 1985 double murder of her parents Derek and Nancy Haysom in Bedford County, Virginia.
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.
In 1796, a wave of reform swept the General Assembly of Virginia, and the famous British-American architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, (1764-1820), (later Architect of the Capitol) was hired to design a penitentiary house for the newly formed Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions.
Virginia State Trooper Jerry Hines [h] 52 Danny Lee King: White 47 M July 23, 1998 Roanoke: Carolyn Horton Rogers 53 Lance Antonio Chandler Jr. Black 25 M August 20, 1998 Halifax: Billy Dix 54 Johnile L. DuBois: Black 31 M August 31, 1998 Portsmouth: Philip Council 55 Kenneth Manuel Stewart Jr. White 44 M September 23, 1998 Bedford: Electrocution
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.
Bedford County was established by the Virginia General Assembly on December 13, 1753, from parts of Lunenburg County. [4] Later in 1756, a portion of Albemarle County lying south of the James River was added.