Virginia’s Maximum Security Prisons are nearly four hundred miles southwest of Richmond – in the mountains near the Tennessee border. We rarely hear what goes on there, but gang activity and drug use at one correctional center Wallens Ridge have led to lengthy lockdowns, with about 1,200 men confined to their cells for weeks. Now, Sandy Hausman reports that tensions are rising after two prisoners were killed.
Many people will spend the holidays with their families, but for about 40 prisoners in Virginia that’s difficult or impossible. Sandy Hausman reports on those inmates from the islands.
An inmate serving time at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Wise County was slain Sunday by another inmate, the Virginia Department of Corrections said. The killing is the second at
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