Lawrenceville Correctional Center
Location1607 Planters Road
Lawrenceville, Virginia
Statusopen
Security classmedium
Capacity1555
Opened1998 (1998)
Managed byGEO Group

The Lawrenceville Correctional Center is a privately operated, medium-security state prison for men located in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. Since 2003 GEO Group has operated the prison under contract with the Virginia Department of Corrections.[1] It houses 1555 inmates.[2]

When the facility was first completed in 1998 as the first private prison in Virginia, it was managed by Corrections Corporation of America. [3]

References

  1. Richmond, Virginia Department of Corrections. "VADOC — Facilities & Offices". www.vadoc.virginia.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. "Lawrenceville Correctional Center". GEO Group Inc. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  3. Finn, Peter (18 January 1998). "With Lawrenceville Facility, Va. Enters World of Privately Run Prisons". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2016.

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