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Brunswick Correctional Center
Brunswick Correctional Center was a prison of the Virginia Department of Corrections in unincorporated area, unincorporated Brunswick County, Virginia, near Lawrenceville, Virginia, Lawrenceville. Closing The prison, which once had 700-800 employees, had about 328.5 employees in 2009. As a part of the budget cut program from Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine, it was scheduled to close on October 10, 2009, with the state believing it would per year save the state government $10,400,000. The state planned to end 164 full-time job positions. The closing harmed economic prospects of the people around the area as the community did not have many other jobs. Frank Ruff, a member of the Virginia Senate; the county administrator, Charlette T. Wooldridge; and the county sheriff both criticized the closure. The state offered the property for sale and decreased the price, from $30 million to $10 million by 2015, when potential owners failed to materialize. That year the Virginia General Assembly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Department Of Corrections
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is the government agency responsible for community corrections and operating prisons and correctional facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies in the United States. Its headquarters is located in the state capital of Richmond. History From the time of the first settlement at Jamestown to the relocation of the state capital to Richmond in the late 18th Century, Virginia relied upon corporal and capital punishment as its penal measures. Gradually, Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement. After the Revolutionary War, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson began to urge the state to construct a "penitentiary house." At that time, penitentiary houses were then beginning being used throughout Europe to confine and reform criminals. However, for more than a dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |