The emotionally raw scene is part of a stage play from the ’70s, produced and performed by inmates of Lorton Reformatory, the notorious D.C.-area prison that closed in 2001. Preserved on an old ...

Sentenced in 1955 to spend five to 17 years in the District's Lorton prison for forgery, counterfeiting and other crimes, Farmer C. Thomas might have become just another anonymous inmate ...

It’s a guard tower. It turns out that this swath of suburbia was until recently one of the most violent and overcrowded prisons in the United States: Lorton Reformatory, where DC sent its inmates for ...

DC’s Lorton Reformatory complex closed in 2001 and is now an upscale ... Mowatt has acquired footage of a traveling theater program organized by inmates in the ’70s that will be part of the ...

After 91 years of housing D.C. inmates, before closing in 2001, and being returned to Fairfax County, Virginia, developers of Liberty are proudly heralding Lorton prison’s before and after ...

a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C. It is more widely known as the site where many suffragists were held after the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House in ...

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 George's County ...

A prison-turned-art space in Lorton, Virginia ... Initially built in 1910 as a progressive era work camp to rehabilitate inmates through hard labor and agriculture, it later became infamous ...

It’s been an issue for inmates convicted of felonies in D.C. since Lorton Reformatory closed its doors in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2001. Since D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, inmates ...

Indeed, the development, now called Liberty, had a former life as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison housing inmates from Washington, D.C. Built in 1910, it’s best known for the dozens of ...