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Indian Creek Correctional Center: Chesapeake: 1,002 James River Correctional Center: 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 took it over. [4 ...
A 1999 report by Human Rights Watch raised concerns over conditions at Red Onion State Prison. The report states that "the Virginia Department of Corrections has failed to embrace basic tenets of sound correctional practice and laws protecting inmates from abusive, degrading or cruel treatment" [15] and claims that "racism, excessive violence ...
Greensville Correctional Center is a prison facility located in unincorporated Greensville County, Virginia, [3] near Jarratt. The prison, on a 1,105-acre (447 ha) plot of land, is operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections . [ 4 ]
Wallens Ridge State Prison is a level 5 state prison located in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, housing approximately 1,200 inmates. Since opening in April 1999, it has been a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections, and is identical to the Red Onion State Prison near Pound. [1] The prison was built for over $70 million.
The number of elderly prisoners has increased in Virginia's inmate population since the Commonwealth's abolition of parole in 1994. [2] It is a level-two security prison (medium). [3] The site is adjacent to Virginia's former Southampton Correctional Center, which was established in 1938 as an agricultural facility.
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 ...
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.
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.