
Prison closing jeopardizes future of Virginia town Washington Post Boydton, population 480, has relied on revenue from the Mecklenburg Correctional Center, which employs 300 people and accounts for 20 percent of the city's annual budget. Shirley Bowen, Boydton's town clerk, notary and treasurer, holds a 1977 US News ... |
![]() The Atlantic Cities | Are America's Prison Towns Doomed? The Atlantic Cities Other towns such as Walsenburg, Colorado, McFarland, California, Baldwin, Michigan, and Boydton, Virginia, have suffered similar fates. Without prisoners, they're left with empty, foreboding complexes that cost the town millions to build only a few ... |
Boydton celebrates 200 years South Hill Enterprise Historic Boydton's Renaissance (HBR) has been instrumental in marketing the town and last year, under the guidance and leadership of Sandra Tanner of the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC), developed a long term tourism plan HBR hopes will bring more ... |
Lockup: Why waste people? Charleston Gazette Virginia alone has closed 11 since 2009." The article described the southern Virginia town of Boydton, which depended on its state prison for hundreds of jobs and economic survival. The facility mostly held excess Pennsylvania prisoners being kept ... |
![]() Daily Yonder | Monday Roundup: 'Daddy Stopped Talking' Daily Yonder Many of these prisons were built in rural areas. They were sold to communities as steady sources of employment. Now towns and counties are finding that this steady source of jobs is wobbly. The Washington Post visits Boydton, Virginia, where a prison ... |
Salary grades, ranges OK'd for regional jail Brunswick Times Gazette 2 at 2 pm at Southside Virginia Community College for its regularly scheduled meeting to continue discussing the benefit package to be offered. The Meherrin River Regional Jail is being built in Alberta on Boydton Plank Road in Brunswick County to ... |
Written by Staff Reports Go Blue Ridge Holli Crickenberger (Boydton, Va.) followed with a four-hit shutout against Shaw, as Oakes took the circle against West Liberty and allowed one run in seven innings, surrendering three hits and striking out 11. Oakes led the way for Lees-McRae with a ... |
Hopes rise for Boydton Medical Center patients South Hill Enterprise Patients and staff of Boydotn Medical Center and residents of Boydton have expressed concerns in recent weeks about the future of the center following the recent announcement that the pharmacy will have to close for the second time since 2004. |
Southside cooperative expands to attract money, jobs GoDanRiver.com None of that would exist today without federal grants and Virginia Tobacco Commission money. As of Dec. 31, MBC had received $73.4 million in grants. Of that, $48.3 million came from the Tobacco Commission. Grant funding is expected to reach more than ... |
Chase City needs a good beer Warren Record One local resident said "Chase City and Virginia didn't do enough to get them here." I'd already seen the news item and was a little disappointed but I wasn't really surprised. Getting Sierra Nevada Brewing to come to Chase City was, at best, ... |

