“I’m tired, I can’t take no more,” says the prisoner repeatedly; he is in a near-catatonic state of glassy-eyed despair as his cellmates try to comfort him. The emotionally raw scene is part of a ...

The brick buildings look a bit ramshackle, a bit ghostlike. They are missing paint and the occasional shingle. But mostly, they are missing people. Thousands were once confined here, at one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was January 2022, and Rhian Allvin was in search of a space that could bring her vision to life. The early childhood leader had ...

LORTON, Va. — The footsteps still echo off the old brick walls lining the walkway; the big, steel door still creaks open, then clangs shut. Its empty, claustrophobic cells still give a viewer the ...

If those walls could talk, the bricks of the former Lorton Reformatory would likely express surprise. What was once an overcrowded, violent penitentiary for prisoners from the District is now a ...

Fairfax County officials are closing in on negotiations to transform a former prison into a neighborhood, but they still need millions of dollars to begin efforts stalled through much of the last ...

<p>The front-page article, "Prison site revitalization in the works" (May 19), continues a Washington, D.C.-area newspaper tradition: repeated references to the former Lorton prison. Here are some ...

LORTON, Va. — A screening of the documentary "Lorton: Prison of Terror" will be held at Prince George's Community College Saturday evening. Former inmate and At-Large Council Member for Prince ...

That's how she found herself, on that winter day, driving alongside a red-brick prison wall, past imposing watch towers, and onto the sprawling grounds that were once home to a notorious ...