The Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) is the government agency responsible for operating prisons and correctional facilities in the United States Commonwealth of Virginia. The agency is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association and is one of the oldest functioning correctional agencies in the United States. Its headquarters is located in Richmond.  From the time of the first settlement at Jamestown to the relocation of the state capital to Richmond in the late 18th century, Virginia relied upon corporal and capital punishment as its penal measures. Gradually, Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement.  After the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson began to urge Virginia to construct a "penitentiary house" as was being done in Europe. At that time, penitentiary houses were being used throughout Europe to confine and reform criminals. Unfortunately, for more than a decade, the Virginia General Assembly ignored Jefferson's ideas.  In 1796, a wave of reform swept the Virginia Legislature, and Benjamin Latrobe was engaged to design a penitentiary house for the newly formed Virginia Department of Welfare and Institutions. Latrobe's facility

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