An attack by a prisoner at Greensville Correctional Center on Friday left a correctional officer in need of medical treatment, the agency announced in a Monday afternoon press release.
09-10-1968 (cutline): Inmates in the auto license tag shop prepare to hang newly stamped-out license plates to run through paint machine at State Penitentiary.
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09-10-1968 (cutline): Prisoners who've returned to work have recreation privileges on Penitentiary yard.
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An aerial view of Virginia State Penitentiary is seen on Dec. 12, 1973.
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01-24-1960 (cutline): Store where inmates, using scrip, buy personal effects at the State Penitentiary.
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10-18-1962 (cutline): A. E. Slayton (center), rehabilitation supervisor at the State Penitentiary and Carroll R. Proctor, superintendent of prison industries, check progress of man in the woodworking department.
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12-07-1966: Virginia State Penitentiary
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03-01-1966 (cutline): Wilson I. Trayer (right) teaches barbering at the the State Penitentiary.
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09-09-1968 (cutline): Virginia State Penitentiary commissary.
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07-27-1962 (cutline): Inmates of the Virginia State Penitentiary have a graduation ceremony. Seventeen inmates received General Educational Development Certificates.