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By an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1944, the VADOC was officially formed out of the former Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions, the Virginia Parole Board, and the Virginia Department of Probation and Parole Services. Today, the VADOC oversees all operations of the Commonwealth's corrections facilities.
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
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The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public ...
St. Brides Correctional Center is a state prison occupying 180 acres (0.73 km 2) in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, first opened in 1973 and re-built in 2007.. The facility is a medium-security prison for men, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections.
The River North Correctional Center is a state prison for men located in Independence, Grayson County, Virginia, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was opened in 2013 and has a working capacity of 1024 prisoners held at a medium security level.
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.
The Haynesville Correctional Center is a medium security state prison for men located in Haynesville, Richmond County, Virginia, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was opened in 1993 and has a daily working population of 1,141 inmates, held at a range of security levels.