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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.
Sharon Redfearn, 55, was convicted of possession with intent to sell and maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of distributing controlled substances in Mecklenburg County in 1993. She has since ...
Nathaniel Lipscomb (1929 – June 9, 1961), known as The Dawn Strangler, was an American serial killer responsible for three rape-murders in Baltimore, Maryland committed between 1958 and 1959, in addition to several sexual assaults and a possible previous murder committed in Charlotte, North Carolina. [1]
This was a decrease of twenty percent in the inmate population from just four years earlier when there were 29,347 inmates in the system. [7] A 2011 study showed among the 36 states that report felon recidivism — defined as re-imprisonment within three years of release — Virginia has the fourth lowest recidivism rate in the United States.
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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 ...
Perrella was arrested for alleged felony counts of death by vehicle and reckless driving, according to a Mecklenburg County Jail spokesman. Jail or Agency: Mecklenburg County; State: North Carolina; Date arrested or booked: 4/8/2014; Date of death: 5/10/2016; Age at death: 52; Sources: jail pio, death records, inmate records
A child in Mecklenburg County was diagnosed with measles, the first confirmed case in North Carolina since 2018, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday afternoon.