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 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.

FILE - Virginia Lt. Gov. John Hager gets a tour April 9, 1999, of the new Wallens Ridge State Prison from Department of Corrections Director Ron Angelone in Big Stone Gap, Va. (Tan Van Le/Bristol ...

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 ...