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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.
On November 8, 2014, inmate Dai’Yaan Qamar Longmire, 19, committed suicide while in solitary confinement at Indian Creek Correctional Center. A lawsuit filed by Longmire's mother against the Virginia Department of Corrections and ICCC, states he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder , depression , ADHD and anxiety before his incarceration in ...
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 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 ...
Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800 inmates. [3] The prison opened in August 1998. It was the model for and is practically identical to Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap , the state's second supermax facility, which opened in 1999.
Inmate Name Register Number Status Details Christopher Bryan Speight 1471716 Serving 5 life sentences without parole. [5] Perpetrator of the 2010 Appomattox shootings in which he murdered 8 people, including his sister, and her family. [6] [7] [8] George Wesley Huguely 1458946 Serving a 23-year sentence. [9] [10]
A woman in her 30s who was visiting an inmate at the Theo Lacy Facility jail in Orange County was forgotten and left overnight in the visitor's area of the lockup.
Nottoway Correctional Center is an all-male state prison in Burkeville, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA.A low-security work center is on the same site. [1]Nottoway, as a Level 3 security facility, has inmates serving long term sentences, including single, multiple, and life sentences.