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On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. [3] The Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989. The regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails. [4]
The prison is the largest transcriber of textbooks into Braille in the United States, accounting for almost 90% of the Braille textbooks. The current capacity of the prison is 1183. The majority of inmates live in barracks-style housing, but two new 120-inmate cell units were opened in 2000.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
Lakin Correctional Center (LCC) is a women's prison in the community of Lakin in unincorporated Mason County, West Virginia. [1]It is on a portion of former Lakin State Hospital property, [2] on West Virginia Route 62, in proximity to West Columbia, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Point Pleasant, [3] and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the Army National Guard armory. [4]
In 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War. Consequently, the new state had a shortage of various public institutions, including prisons. From 1863 to 1866, Governor Arthur I. Boreman lobbied the West Virginia Legislature for a state penitentiary but was repeatedly denied. The Legislature at first ...
In November 2023, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at the jail as inhumane. The lawsuit filed in 2022 on behalf of ...
The inmate was found unresponsive, the release states. He was pronounced dead at 4:47 p.m. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating, which is protocol with deaths that happen at the jail, the ...
West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation Pruntytown Correctional Center (PCC) is a state prison for West Virginia , located at Pruntytown near Grafton , West Virginia , USA . The premises were previously used for a juvenile detention center known as the West Virginia Industrial Home for Boys , which closed in 1983.