Lawrenceville Correctional Center
building in Virginia, United States
The Lawrenceville Correctional Center is a medium-security state prison for men located in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia. From 2003 to 2024, GEO Group operated the prison under contract with the Virginia Department of Corrections. On August 1, 2024, the state took over the prison. It houses 1555 inmates.
When the facility was first completed in 1998 as the first private prison in Virginia, it was managed by Corrections Corporation of America.
“Lawrenceville Correctional Center” enters the record as building in Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lawrenceville, Correctional and Center can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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