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  2. West Virginia Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Construction of a school and library was completed in 1900 to help reform and educate inmates. [2] Cells where the prison's worst inmates were kept. However, the conditions at the prison worsened through the years, and the facility would be ranked on the United States Department of Justice's Top Ten Most Violent Correctional Facilities list. [4]

  3. List of people executed in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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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]

  5. History and mystery merge at former West Virginia ... - AOL

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    The prison is operated by the Moundsville Economic Development Council. ... By the late 1950s, the prison offered inmate labor in a number of prison areas: a stone yard, bakery, hospital and ...

  6. A 2022 report about Marcy from the Correctional Association of New York, which provides independent oversight of prisons in the state, notes multiple problems at the facility, including ...

  7. Ronald Turney Williams - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Turney Williams (born April 4, 1943) is an American serial killer, burglar, arsonist, [3] kidnapper, [3] prison escapee, and former fugitive.In 1979, Williams and fourteen other inmates escaped from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of a police officer. [3]

  8. Mount Olive Correctional Complex - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Ex-prison officer jailed over sex with inmate - AOL

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    A former HMP Wandsworth prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate has been jailed for 15 months. Linda De Sousa Abreu was identified by senior prison staff after the clip was shared ...