BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Lorton -- Lorton Reformatory

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. REFORM_070617_29.JPG: In the distance is a landfill
2. REFORM_070617_37.JPG: This is a map showing how the prison is used these days as an art studio. They're also building some housing on the left.
Wikipedia Description: Lorton Reformatory
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The Lorton Reformatory, once known as Occoquan Workhouse, was a prison built for the District of Columbia, United States. It was operated by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections.

History:

Plans for the workhouse were ongoing in 1910 with Snowden Ashford as the Municipal Architect responsible for the workhouse while Leon E. Dessez was the special architect who was appointed by the commissioners to draft plans for the new workhouse. It opened in 1916 as a facility for less serious offenders in the Lorton Correctional Complex. It is located in nearby Lorton in southern Fairfax County, Virginia. In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a special Penal Commission to investigate deplorable conditions of the District of Columbia's jail and workhouse in Washington. As a result, the Commission recommended a complete change in the philosophy and treatment of prisoners in D.C. The United States Congress acted upon this recommendation, and a 1,155-acre (5 km2) tract north of the Occoquan River was purchased in 1910 through condemnation proceedings.

Classically inspired, symmetrical dormitory complexes were constructed instead of cellblocks. The brick buildings were built by the prisoners themselves, using brick manufactured at the on-site kiln complex located on the banks of the Occoquan. It became known in its later years, however, as an outdated and badly overcrowded facility. The last prisoners were removed from Lorton Reformatory late in 2001.

As a result of the pickets of the women's suffrage movement in the Washington D.C. area, approximately 168 women, most from the National Women's Party, were detained and mistreated at the Medium Security facility from June to December 1917 as portrayed in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels.

Near the Reformatory lies Revolutionary War patriot William Lindsay's circa 1790 estate known as Laurel Hill. This house served as a residence for the reformatory superintendent.

The reformatory had its own railroad, the Lorton and Occoquan Railroad that operated from 1911 to 1977.

Lorton Reformatory also hosted Nike missile site W-64.

On July 15, 2002, Fairfax County received title to the facility. The transfer was enabled by the Lorton Technical Corrections Act passed by Congress in October 1998. It required the county to develop a plan to maximize use of land for open space, parkland or recreation prior to the transfer. Plans for the land the prison occupied can be found at the Fairfax County planning site.

The site has been part of the D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory Historic District since February 16, 2006.

Notable prisoners

Chuck Brown
Lucy Burns
Petey Greene
Paul D. "H.R." Hudson, vocalist for Bad Brains
Anne Henrietta Martin
Alice Paul
Elizabeth Selden Rogers
Doris Stevens
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