Status mixed Capacity 1,069 | Phone +1 434-658-4368 Opened 1994 | |
Location 21360 Deerfield Road
Capron, Virginia Managed by Virginia Department of Corrections Address 21360 Deerfield Rd, Capron, VA 23829, USA Similar Rivers Correctio Institute, Tillery Prison, Southam County Jail Farm, Southam Correctio Center, Southam County Sheriff's | ||
The Deerfield Correctional Center is a state prison for men located in Capron, Southampton County, Virginia, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections. The facility was opened in 1994 and has a working capacity of 1069 prisoners.
It houses a special population of "Geriatric and Assisted Living Inmates": elderly, infirm, disabled and other special-needs prisoners, who have increased in Virginia's inmate population since the commonwealth's abolition of parole in 1994.
The site is adjacent to Virginia's former Southampton Correctional Center, which was established in 1938 as an agricultural facility. By 1955 Southampton had grown into a campus including a livestock operation, a cannery, its own sewage disposal facility, and it supplied 80% of its own food. Southampton was closed in January 2009 and was demolished soon after.