Download or read book Lorton written by Yoshie Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just miles from the Washington, D.C. beltway is the small community of Lorton, Virginia. By the time it was formally named Lorton in the late 1800s, the area had already seen much history in the making. At the turn of the century, Theodore Roosevelt scouted out the territory for the makings of a new detention center in answer to the prison problems in the District of Columbia. When the land reverted back to Fairfax County in the late 1900s, the Lorton prison facilities were closed, and the community began a rapid development from a poor rural area to one of high-end housing. Through the vintage and modern photos in this volume, walk the grounds of our founding fathers. See the home of George Mason, author of the Bill of Rights, and visit Pohick Church, designed by George Washington. Try to hear the laughter and conversation by the fire at the Fairfax Tavern, a favorite stopping place for anyone heading north. Witness the radical change from an agrarian Lorton to the subdivisions of today.

Download or read book Lorton Legends written by Eyone Williams and published by Dc Bookdiva Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lorton Correctional Complex was one of the most notorious prisons in U.S. history. It housed convicts from Washington, D.C. Known for violence and corruption, it shaped and molded every man, or woman, that experienced life on the inside. Sent to Lorton at age 17 for armed robbery, Ronald Mays is introduced to a world where only the strong survive. In prison he is forced to better himself as a man he learns to read, he drops his heroin habit, and becomes a father. Being a loyalist at heart, Ronald gets involved in a feud with older convicts that can cost him everything. A survivor by nature, Ronald makes it out of Lorton alive and returns to the streets of D.C. with his mind focused on doing bigger and better things with his life. He leaves all of his old ways alone and pursues his dreams of becoming a pro boxer if he succeeds he wins for all those close to him. No matter how hard he tries to avoid the drama of the D.C. streets, it comes his way hard and fast. Ronald finds himself fighting his yesterdays in order to attain his dreams of tomorrow. Like most real men that survived Lorton, Ronald is driven by his will to succeed and his demand for respect. Nothing will get in his way. An epic story of struggle, adversity, and accomplishment.

Download or read book HR 461 Closing of Lorton Correctional Complex written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Establish Commission to Consider Closing and Relocation of Lorton eliminate from D C Code Obsolete Reports to Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transfer of Lorton Reformatory to the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg written by Elizabeth Lynn Linton and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Lorton Prison Project written by Carolyn Williams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story captures the insight of a bright, intuitively smart young man who grew up in the low-income housing projects of Southeast Washington, DC, our nations capital city. His name was Jimmy Black Blango, better known as JB. He lived in the Barry Farms Housing projects at the height of a glorified drug market, in the midst of a culture of the celebrated thug life, gang violence, and mob-style crime. Aside from all that, it was a known fact that gangbangers pledged allegiance to serving time in jail. Even JB got caught up in a clean sweep operation on the streets of Washington, DC, and was sent down to Lorton to serve his time. From there, his status on the streets of Washington, DC, was upgraded to include street credits (i.e., the status of lieutenant) for serving a stench at what was once called the most notorious prison on the east coast, the Lorton Correctional Complex. Now that the prison was mandated by federal law to shut down, the criminal element on the outside decided to bring their drug enterprise on the inside. This was an effort to establish networks that reached beyond the district and extended to all points targeted south. Yet due to the pending closure of the Lorton Complex and the greed among thieves, backstabbing gangbangers, cold-blooded killers, malicious cutthroat staffers, and others caused the whole scam to blow up. At the end of the day, a nefarious culmination of unsavory conduct caused many elements of the Lorton Complex to suffer its unfortunate demise.

Download or read book Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg written by E. Lynn Linton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Download or read book The Lorton Prison Higher Education Project written by Ernesta P. Williams Ed.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Lorton Project is a cautionary tale of what can happen when social policies go awry.

Download or read book Better Management Needed for Tighter Security at Lorton Correctional Institutions District of Columbia Government written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sir Marmaduke Lorton Bart written by Albert Stratford George Canning and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Youngest Miss Lorton and Other Stories written by Nora Perry and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg A Novel written by afterwards LINTON LYNN (Elizabeth) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book District of Columbia issues related to the Youngstown Prison report and Lorton closure process written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ladies of Lorton Landing written by Marie Dunn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four strong women are drawn to an old plantation by a spell cast over a hundred and fifty years ago. Each one holds a key for the others as their lives intermingle with the past, and they discover gifts that give them the collective strength to solve a mystery and face their own challenges.

Download or read book The Mays of Lorton written by Mays and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lorton Prisons written by Alice Reagan and Kenena Hansen Spalding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workhouse, reformatory, and penitentiary buildings of the Lorton Correctional Complex were built on land purchased by the federal government in 1910 and leased to the District of Columbia Department of Corrections to establish prisons. The men's workhouse was built in 1910, and a women's annex was added in 1912. A reformatory to rehabilitate prisoners convicted of more serious crimes was built in 1916. All three were constructed dormitory style with no cells or walls. A brick wall enclosed the penitentiary built to house serious felons in the 1930s. When the Lorton prisons closed in 2001, the complex had grown to 3,200 acres. Its story reflects the history of the 20th century as it was impacted by and reacted to the ideas, events, and people outside its walls.