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  • 1. Workhouse Arts Center Lorton
    The Lorton Reformatory, also known as the Lorton Correctional Complex, is a former prison complex in Lorton, Virginia, established in 1910 for the District of Columbia, United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for non-violent offenders serving short sentences. The District established an adjacent Reformatory in 1914, and then a 10-acre walled penitentiary constructed by inmates from 1931 through 1938, as a division of the Reformatory with heightened security. The complex came under the administration of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections when it was formed in 1946. After further expansions, a peak size of 3,500-acre , and 92 years of service, the facility was closed by law in the late 1990s. The final prisoners were transferred out in ...
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