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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 ...
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]
South Dakota Department of Corrections; Tennessee Department of Correction; Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Utah Department of Corrections; Vermont Department of Corrections; Virginia Department of Corrections; Washington State Department of Corrections; West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Wisconsin Department of ...
A crime trends report from February 2023, the latest available on the corrections website, shows a 66% increase in drug crimes since 2013 – the same year former Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
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 ...