Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Halifax Correctional Unit South Boston: 248 Haynesville Correctional Center: Haynesville: 1,141 Haynesville Correctional Unit #17 Haynesville: Closed on July 1, 2024 [3] Indian Creek Correctional Center: Chesapeake: 1,002 James River Correctional Center: Goochland County: Closed April 1, 2011 Keen Mountain Correctional Center: Oakwood: 879
Halifax: Angela Felton Tim Kaine: 96 Brandon Wayne Hedrick: White 27 M July 20, 2006 Appomattox: Electrocution Lisa Yvonne Crider 97 Michael William Lenz: White 42 M July 27, 2006 Augusta: Lethal injection Inmate Brent H. Parker 98 John Yancey Schmitt: White 33 M November 9, 2006 Chesterfield: Earl Shelton Dunning 99 Kevin Green: Black 31 M May ...
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. [8]
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 ...
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 Virginia Department of Corrections has recently declined to answer questions from the AP about the prison, citing pending litigation over an inmate's death that has focused in part on ...
Halifax County was established in 1752 by English colonists from Lunenburg County. The county was named for George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax . Through the 1990 Census, South Boston was an independent city , but it became a town again and rejoined Halifax County in 1995.
The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were ...