Talib Muwahhid has a knack for woodworking, and over the years, he’s tinkered with a variety of different projects. “I was making things like little chess sets and storage boxes and stuff out of ...

Twenty-one percent of full-time jobs with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) are open. Through public records ...

Editor’s note: This story includes references to self-harm. Tomeka Wallace didn’t know her son was being transferred from Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison until she got a call in February from a ...

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The Virginia Department of Corrections dismissed more than 10% of its hourly community corrections employees between December ...

RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers advanced a bipartisan prison education reform bill, but Senate revisions altered its original scope. Del. Betsy B. Carr, D-Richmond, introduced House Bill 2158, which ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A lawsuit filed this month in U.S. District Court alleges chronic understaffing in Virginia’s correctional institutions has led to at least two deaths, including at least one of an ...

An inmate killed a corrections officer at a prison in Virginia, the state corrections department said Monday. Corrections officer Jeremy Lewis Hall, 40, was killed in what the Virginia Department of ...

Last year, 31 visitors were caught bringing drugs into prisons, and drugs were found in the mail 12 times. Other states have tried similar methods to stop smuggling. The American Civil Liberties Union ...

My father attended segregated schools in Williamsburg in the 1950s and ’60s and did not finish high school. Education has always been a cornerstone of opportunity in America, though access to it has ...