Empty Virginia Prison Cost More Than $700,000 A Year To Maintain

Source: Susan Kinzie / The Washington Post Grayson County has a brand-new state prison standing empty. No prisoners. And that means no guards, no administrators, no staff, no jobs. Three hundred new jobs — maybe 350 — that's what people were told when the prison was planned. With about 11 percent unemployment and no relief in sight, that sounded really good to an awful lot of people here. But months after the commonwealth finished building the 1,024-bed medium-security prison for [...]