You can see those makeshift weapons at Lorton’s newest attraction, the Lucy Burns Museum, which occupies “the hole,” the cells where prisoners went when they got in trouble. But the history of the ...

The film outlines Lorton’s strange journey from utopian prison farm to reviled penal colony. Located on a hilly site in Virginia near the Occoquan River, Lorton was first developed in the early ...

The maximum security facility at Lorton Reformatory closed in 2001, and the rows of jail cells will soon undergo the renovation and rehabilitation that have turned other buildings at the site into… ...

At Lorton, the Arts Transform a Prison. February 26, 2003. By Bob Levey. The brick buildings look a bit ramshackle, a bit ghostlike. They are missing paint and the occasional shingle.

Lorton Prison Transformed Into Liberty $190 million project of 352 residential units being built on 80 acres at the former Lorton Prison complex. A photo of the Quad at Liberty Crest Apartments.

From 1910 to 2001, the Liberty Crest Apartments were known as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C. It is more widely known as the site ...

A prison-turned-art space in Lorton, Virginia. Discover the fascinating history of the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. Initially built in 1910 as a progressive era work camp to ...

The former prison in Lorton is now a playhouse! Now, robust theater productions are center stage at The Workhouse Arts Center! The first production "Clyde's,” is about former prisoners turned ...

One of the most requested books at the DC Jail’s library is something it doesn’t even carry. The jail’s full-time librarian, Danielle Zoller, is asked about it every week—up there even with other ...

'A Lorton Prison Project' follows four friends that were arrested for a crime of robbery and encounters the Lorton Complex, as they embark upon journeys that extend far beyond what they could ever ...