Lorton: Prison of Terror

301 Largo Road,Largo MD 20774

07 January, 2023

Description

This 1hr and 20min documentary coming soon, takes us inside the 8 different prisons at Lorton with interviews of ex-convicts that has served over 20 years in Lorton, prison guards, and visits. We explore why a prison in Washington, D.C. convicts were built in Virginia instead of D.C. and what made the prison and the prisoners so notorious, the most feared, and the most respected men in the American prison system. To find out, we go all the way back to the War of 1812.