Learning at Lunch

The Lorton Prison Museum featuring the Lucy Burns Gallery at the Workhouse Arts Center is proud to present the third season of Learning at Lunch, a series illuminating aspects of the former prison’s 91-year history. Each month, we invite an expert to tackle a topic related to our complicated past. After a brief 30-minute talk, presenters answer audience questions, and all attendees are invited to visit the museum following the program. Table seating provided and attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch; snacks and beverages available for purchase in the W16 Visitor Center.

The Pilot Substance Abuse Program (PSAP) was a special drug rehabilitation program started by Dr. Jasper Ormond at the Lorton Correctional Complex in 1989. This particular program worked with a small group of inmates in a segregated section of the Medium Security Facility, just across Ox Road from where the Workhouse Art Center campus (former Occoquan Facility) stands today. Photographer Lloyd Wolf documented the program intensively for over a year, recording images of the participating inmates. Join him as he shares stories and photographs from his time working at the prison and with the members of this program.

Free, no registration required