United States · VA · Dillwyn
Buckingham Correctional Center
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Buckingham Correctional Center is a state prison located in Buckingham County, Virginia. Rated capacity: 1,182. Reported population: 1,132. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Buckingham Correctional Center is a state prison (close-custody male institution) located on 968 acres (3.9 km2) outside the town of Dillwyn in Buckingham County, Virginia. This facility is a security level 3-4 and has assignment criteria of single, multiple, and life. Transfer to any less-secure facility requires no disruptive behavior for at least 24 months prior to consideration.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,200
Current population
1,132
Occupancy
94%
Year opened
1982
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1982
Region
VA
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- VADOC — Facilities
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- VADOC — Facilities — Virginia Department of Corrections
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q14712099)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Buckingham Correctional Center. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/buckingham-correctional-center
"Buckingham Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/buckingham-correctional-center.
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