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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 state incarcerates 273 women per ...
96000987 [1] Added to NRHP. September 19, 1996. The West Virginia Penitentiary, located in Moundsville, West Virginia is now a withdrawn and retired gothic -style prison that operated from 1866 to 1995. The site is now being maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training facility, and filming location. [2]
FPC Alderson is a 159-acre (64 ha) facility and is the largest employer in the Alderson, West Virginia area. [17] The prison is about a five-hour driving distance from Washington, D.C. [14] Serving as a model for prison reform at the time, the facility was styled after a boarding school, offering education with no armed guards. [18]
In its written reply to the Herald-Leader, the Corrections Department said it would need until Nov. 30 to locate the responsive records and redact personal or security-related information.
Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer (FCI Gilmer) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male inmates.
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-security correctional facility and has a current capacity of 1,030 inmates.
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 United States Penitentiary, Hazelton (USP Hazelton) is a high-security United States federal prison for men 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 Justice.