First Amendment attorney says the public has 'an interest and perhaps an obligation to understand what's going on in jails and prisons' ...

Virginia should end a program that allows prison inmates to reduce their time behind bars for good behavior, because too many ...

Two dogs will receive protective vests in memory of a fallen dog who died protecting his handler, officials said.Dogs Pablo ...

Virginia’s private prison population size is just over 5% of overall incarcerated people in the state. Capital News Service is a program of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Robertson School ...

After failing for years, Virginia lawmakers and advocates pushing for more transparency in the state's prison system got a bill signed into law creating an independent oversight office.

The population of Virginia’s state prisons experienced the largest decline across the United States between 2021 and 2022, according to new data released by the Department of Justice.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Thursday signed an executive order instructing state police and prison officers to ...

A former Virginia Department of Corrections employee pleaded guilty to a charge related to the smuggling of a cell phone to a Haynesville Correctional Center inmate. Erica Shaie Morrow, 32 ...

Virginia, one of 44 states that use solitary confinement, has 1,800 people in isolation, a sizable share of the estimated 25,000 people in solitary in the nation’s state and federal prisons.

Five guards were injured in an apparent "premeditated" attack by inmates affiliated with the MS-13 and Sureño 13 gangs at a Virginia prison, state corrections officials said.

Lawrenceville is the state’s only privately operated prison. The medium-security facility opened in 1998 and was billed as a way for the state to save money. The GEO Group, based in Florida, has ...

The population of Virginia's state prisons experienced the largest decline across the United States between 2021 and 2022, according to new data released by the Department of Justice.