The lawsuit argues that prison officials failed to address known safety risks that preceded a deadly attack and continue to ...

Virginia lawmakers are preparing bills to restrict the use of attack-trained dogs in prisons. Virginia deployed dogs to attack prisoners 271 times in recent years, the most of any state. The attacks ...

An inmate at River North Correction Center in Virginia is facing an aggravated murder charge after officials said he killed a ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A lawsuit filed this month in U.S. District Court alleges chronic understaffing in Virginia’s correctional ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — 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 ...

Complaints of understaffing, ignored medical emergencies and other concerns at the Indian Creek Correctional Center state prison in Chesapeake are included in a recent federal lawsuit seeking ...

Virginia’s top investigatory body is turning its attention to Red Onion State Prison following alarming reports of self-harm and poor conditions at the supermax facility in Wise County. Andrea Sapone, ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- When Hassan Shabazz hears about a drug overdose inside a Virginia prison, his mind instantly takes him back inside his cell and the emotions serving time in prison brings up within a ...

Rebecca Eileen Frost, Janice Lee Shenk and Adam Gregory Swale have been charged in a grand jury's ongoing investigation into a $1.1 million drug smuggling attempt at the Virginia Correctional Center ...

A prison health-care company that has come under fire nationally for what some call shoddy medical care is under contract with the Virginia Department of Corrections and is stirring similar complaints ...