Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Lorton PDF full book. Access full book title Lorton by Yoshie Lewis. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Yoshie Lewis Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738518404 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
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.
Author: Yoshie Lewis Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738518404 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
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.
Author: Eyone Williams Publisher: Dc Bookdiva Publications ISBN: 9780984611065 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
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.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 252
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education Publisher: ISBN: 9780160399459 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 184
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries Publisher: ISBN: Category : Correctional institutions Languages : en Pages : 192
Author: Carolyn Williams Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984524739 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 131
Book Description
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.
Author: Yoshie Lewis
Author: Yoshie Lewis
Author: Eyone Williams
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries
Author: Elizabeth Lynn Linton
Author: Carolyn Williams
Author: E. Lynn Linton
Author: Ernesta P. Williams Ed.D.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office