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2. Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia

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   Many of the corrections officers arrived at Red Onion after being laid off from jobs in nearby coalfields. [8] Red Onion is one of six new prisons built in Virginia between 1995 and 2000. It thus contributed an increase in capacity to the Virginia Corrections system that allowed the state to contractually accept inmates from outside the state. [9]

3. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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   "Community Corrections" philosophy and policy officially began being used in the Commonwealth of Virginia on October 1, 1942, designated as the Probation and Parole Services Agency, with the employees of the division referred to as Probation and Parole Officers. By an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1944, the VADOC was officially formed ...

4. Prison officer - Wikipedia

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   A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property as well as other ...

5. List of Virginia state prisons - Wikipedia

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   Buckingham Correctional Center: Dillwyn: 1,100 Caroline Correctional Unit Hanover: 137 Central Virginia Correctional Unit #13 Chesterfield: 250 Coffeewood Correctional Center: Mitchells: 1,193 Cold Springs Correctional Unit #10 Greenville: 150 Culpeper Correctional Facility for Women Culpeper: Closed as of 2014 [2] Deep Meadow Correctional ...

6. Greensville Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

7. Georgia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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   Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta. [2] [3] In 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that the agency planned to move its headquarters to Tift College by 2009. [4] [5] The state estimated that the relocation would bring around 400 jobs to Forsyth ...