Virginia houses 113 MS-13 inmates, according to statistics shared by the state Department of Corrections as of June 13.

AFOI and VADOC collaborate to reduce the cost of video visitation to 12 cents-per-minute, enhancing support for families impacted by incarceration. Visit for more information.

It’s summer, and that means trouble for some of the state’s oldest prisons. Some still lack air conditioning, and even those ...

The ACLU of Virginia sent the state’s corrections department a letter demanding the agency to apply a recent court decision ordering a man’s release from prison to others in similar positions ...

The only privately-operated state prison has now changed hands and is in the control of the Virginia Department of Corrections. Lawrenceville Correctional Center opened in 1998.

“At the end of the day, the federal dollars are there for a reason. And if we have facilities that can go to work, we should make them available,” Governor Glenn Youngkin said when asked if the four ...

RICHMOND — The head of Virginia’s prison system, Harold Clarke, told lawmakers Wednesday that his department is short 1,500 correctional officers, leaving essential posts unmanned and forcing ...

A nonprofit organization, Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., will donate bullet and stab protective vests to 11 K9s of the Virginia Department of Corrections.