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  2. Lorton Reformatory - Wikipedia

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    The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for nonviolent offenders serving short sentences. The District established an adjacent ...

  3. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    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" and claims that "racism, excessive violence and ...

  4. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Marion Correctional Treatment Center Marion: 375 Mental health hospital Mecklenburg Correctional Center: Boydton: Closed 2012 Nottoway Correctional Center: Burkeville: 1,112 Patrick Henry Correctional Unit Ridgeway: 136 Pocahontas State Correctional Center: Pocahontas: 1,034 Powhatan Correctional Center Closed 2015 Red Onion State Prison: Pound ...

  5. Mecklenburg Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Mecklenburg Correctional Center. Coordinates: 36°39′39″N 78°21′49″W. 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 ...

  6. District of Columbia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The latter began as a workhouse for male prisoners in 1910, but later expanded to include eight prisons on 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land in Lorton, Fairfax County, Virginia. [1] In 1999 the DCDC was paying the Virginia Department of Corrections to house 69 prisoners at the Red Onion State Prison .

  7. List of jail and prison museums - Wikipedia

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    Jail. Part of the jail is incorporated into the King George Inn, which includes a museum and artifacts from its time as a working jail. [2] Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. Beloozero. Vologda Oblast. Russia. Prison. Kosciusko County Jail Museum.

  8. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent executions were carried out at Greensville Correctional Center.

  9. List of Massachusetts state correctional facilities - Wikipedia

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    Bridgewater. Medium. Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit. Boston. Medium. Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center at Plymouth. Plymouth. Minimum. Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Concord.