Officials with the Virginia Department of Corrections on Wednesday said a department K-9 was killed by inmates affiliated with the MS-13 gang as the dog defended a corrections officer, staff and inmates at Sussex I State Prison on Tuesday.
Rivan was killed Tuesday by MS-13 gang members as he intervened in an inmate assault at Sussex I State Prison, officials said.
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From the Archives: The old Virginia State Penitentiary
July 1990: Cells in the death row section of the State Penitentiary.
July 1990: Life in the Pen- Inmate artwork adorns an empty cell in A-Building, which was emptied of prisoners in April.
11-09-1990 (cutline): Inmates miss organized sports on the athletic field inside the walled prison.
11-01-1990 (cutline): Cells that houses 1,200 prisoners last January are now home to fewer than 600.
11-01-1990 (cutline): Trash bags hang outside cells where inmates spend 22 1/2 hours of every day.
The southeast side of B section where the inmate population is at its maximum and inmates still live. B-Building faces Belvidere Street.
11-01-1956 (cutline): Convict goes into world as prison gate shuts. At 43 years old, he had just spent 21 years in jail.
06-11-1991: Virginia State Penitentiary
09-19-1958: Virginia State Penitentiary chapel
July 1990: A steel cell, without bunk, in the now-empty A-Building.
Cells in original penitentiary, razed in 1928, were cold and damp.
January 1960: Inmates prepare food for 1,600 others in the big kitchen on ground floor. They also learn a trade that helps them get jobs after discharge.
Cell original to State Penitentiary built in 1800 and razed in 1928.
August 1991: Archaeologists found an old key while excavating the old State Penitentiary. Ethyl Labs funded the dig. The original building was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, who also drew plans for the U.S. Capitol.
November 1990: Cell
10-01-1948: Aerial view of Virginia State Penitentiary
07-17-1955 (cutline): Truck (center) in which prisoners escaped was parked between two prison buses.
01-17-1955: Virginia State Penitentiary
09-30-1958 (cutline): Wall where prisoners escaped--Howard Lang, a State Penitentiary guard, points to spot where two prisoners dropped off the prison wall yesterday. Lang was guarding the men in a work detail atop the wall. Arrow shows guard box where he was when it occured.
07-17-1936 (cutline): Where one was killed, six wounded in prison break--This is a staff artist's conception of the prison break late yesterday afternoon at the State Penitentiary. Eight prisoners seized two guards, a trusty and a truck in the prison yard and drove at the gateway in an attempt to batter their way to freedom. Guard C.H. Smith (arrow) halted them with gunfire from above.
February 1975: Paintings by members of the Academy Art Club of the State Penitentiary were to go on display today at the offices of the State Commission of the Arts and Humanities for a three-month period. The commission, located on the 12th floor of the Old State Office Building in Capitol Square, recently made a $1,000 grant to the club which is made up of prison inmates.
July 1974: Director Ron Greenfield, right, works on 'Zoo Story' script with Robert Hettinger and Ray Woodhouse. They are a part of the prison's theater program.
February 1973: Making license plates if one of prisoners' jobs.
July 1990: A female guard at her post.
