The Virginia House Public Safety Committee voted 21-0 on Friday to advance a bill restricting private management of prisons ...

The Inmate Safety Agreement distributed at Red Onion State Prison offers fish fries and movies for prisoners who don’t harm ...

a group of state lawmakers and prison reform advocates. After he visited Red Onion on Dec. 30, Virginia Del. Michael Jones said that he saw an inmate with injuries from being attacked by a prison dog ...

And the consultants reported finding prisons where inmates were in a de facto state of restricted housing, which is the Virginia prison system’s name for what is commonly known as solitary ...

Inmates at the Bon Air Juvenile Correction Center attempted to take over one unit on Sunday afternoon, Crime Insider sources ...

Del. Holly Seiblold, D-Fairfax, speaks at a rally outside Virginia's Capitol on Jan. 8, 2025 in protest of allegations of mistreatment of inmates and prolonged use of solitary confinement at Red Onion ...

It’s been six months since the state resumed control of the Lawrenceville Correctional Center. It was the only privately ...

(WRIC) — A Virginia man was sentenced for ... and Michael Mao, an inmate at The Buckingham County Correctional Facility, to smuggle three controlled substances into the prison: MDMA ...

According to the board’s most recent report on jail deaths, Henrico Jail West had three deaths in 2022 and two deaths in 2023 ...

An interstate agreement on detainers refers to correspondence between prison systems to relocate an incarcerated inmate from one state to another. Carver's release also thanked Virginia State ...