VADOC Director Chad Dotson announced Thursday that recent data shows there is a 17.6% three-year reincarceration rate for ...

Six Virginia Department of Corrections K9s will be receiving bullet and stab protective vests donated by Vested Interest in ...

Three Virginia corrections officers were injured in the coordinated attack by MS-13 gang member inmates, according to officials.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia sent a letter to the head of the state’s corrections department demanding that the agency apply a recent court decision ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The Virginia Department of Corrections says it’s closing four facilities, including three state prisons, in July to address safety concerns and staffing challenges.

RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is mourning the line-of-duty death of Rivan, a K-9 killed while heroically protecting its assigned Corrections Officer ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A now-former corrections officer was arrested and charged after smuggling drugs into a facility, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections. Twenty-nine-year-old Raekwon ...

The records revealed details about the last seconds of prisoners' lives and indicated the Virginia Department of Corrections may have tried to cover up one of the state's recent botched executions.

The Virginia Department of Corrections arrested one of its own for smuggling drugs into a state prison, it announced on Tuesday. The guard arrested is 29-year-old Raekwon Robins. The department ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections said Thursday that it has ended what it calls “restrictive housing” in prisons. The ACLU of Virginia and other advocates for prison inmates — who call ...

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. The current ...