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The West Virginia Division of Corrections is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the state Department of Homeland Security that operates the state's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. [1]
MOCC is an operational unit of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Built as a replacement for the Civil War-era West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) is located seven miles east of Montgomery on Cannelton Hollow Road in Fayette County. MOCC is the state's only maximum ...
West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation The Denmar Correctional Center (DCC) is a state prison located near Hillsboro in Pocahontas County , West Virginia , USA . Built on the site of the former Denmar Hospital (a facility for tuberculosis patients which closed in 1990), DCC was converted to a prison in 1993.
Huttonsville Correctional Center is a prison located near Huttonsville in Randolph County, West Virginia. It was created by an act of the Legislature in 1937 to relieve overcrowding at the West Virginia State Penitentiary. It remained a branch of the parent institution until 1947, at which time the Legislature established it as a separate ...
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 ...
Aug. 23—Before his death at Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) in Beaver, 37-year-old Quantez Burks was assaulted by multiple correctional officers while being handcuffed and afterwards, according to ...
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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]