Fairfax County has spent nearly $700,000 in a years-long effort to dig out asbestos from dozens of buildings at the shuttered Lorton prison.

In 2003, Fairfax County began the lengthy, tedious task of clearing the dangerous material from the still-standing structures on the over 2,000-acre site at the southern end of the county.

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