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The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation 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]
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 .
August 8, 2024 at 4:45 PM. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia correctional officers accused of failing to intervene as their colleagues beat an incarcerated man to death in 2022 pleaded ...
The United States Penitentiary, Hazelton(USP Hazelton) is a high-security United States federal prisonfor male inmates in West Virginia. The high-security facility has earned the nickname "Misery Mountain" by the inmates who are incarcerated there. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of ...
A photo of Sonya Massey is photos displayed on the front porch of her home. According to the group Mapping Police Violence, law enforcement officers have killed 739 people in 2024, putting the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, is in a fight to keep his iconic Greenbrier hotel. A legal notice announcing a public auction for ...
Summary of scheduled executions. As of August 13, 2024, a total of 37 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [ 1] All of these executions are scheduled over four calendar years in six U.S. states. [ 2] There are a total of 16 pending motions to set an execution date across seven states. [ 3]
GREEN BAY – A prisoner at Green Bay Correctional Institution used the N-word after he attacked two Black prisoners with a knife in October 2022, fatally stabbing one of them, correctional ...