A new council convened by Gov. Abigail Spanberger aims to help solve longstanding issues in Virginia’s prisons that residents ...
A Virginia woman who asked not to be identified describes the emotional and logistical toll of visiting her incarcerated ...
Editor’s note: This story includes references to self-harm. Tomeka Wallace didn’t know her son was being transferred from Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison until she got a call in February from a ...
The Virginia Department of Corrections is investigating three inmate deaths in the last three days, one week after Gov.
Eyeing Virginia’s prison system: wrongful convictions, confinement and deaths in custody. Activism, innocence and deaths in custody. The survivor of a wrongful conviction reclaims his innocence and ...
RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers advanced a bipartisan prison education reform bill, but Senate revisions altered its original scope. Del. Betsy B. Carr, D-Richmond, introduced House Bill 2158, which ...
The closures come even as Congress approved a major funding boost for the Bureau of Prisons with the One Big Beautiful Bill ...
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GREENSVILLE COUNTY, Va. — An inmate died by apparent suicide Friday at Greensville Correctional Center, the second apparent suicide at the facility this month and the fourth death in July, according ...