Inmates face violence and weeks of lockdown at Wallens Ridge

Inmates face violence and weeks of lockdown at Wallens Ridge

Virginia’s Maximum Security Prisons are nearly four hundred miles southwest of Richmond – in the mountains near the Tennessee border. We rarely hear what goes on there, but gang activity and drug use at one correctional center -- Wallens Ridge -- have led to lengthy lockdowns, with about 1,200 men confined to their cells for weeks. Now, Sandy Hausman reports that tensions are rising after two prisoners were killed.

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