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The department currently has 13 work release facilities. All but two of these facilities is operated by contractors, who manage the daily safety and security and have oversight of the facilities full-time (24-hours a day, 7-days per week).
Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
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 and Corrections Facility 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.
Pruntytown Correctional Center (PCC) is a state prison for West Virginia, located at Pruntytown near Grafton, West Virginia, USA.. The premises were previously used for a juvenile detention center known as the West Virginia Industrial Home for Boys, which closed in 1983.
Washington Corrections Center (WCC) Shelton: 1964 Yes Male 1,268 Medium Close Maximum Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) Gig Harbor: 1971 Yes Female 738 MI-2 MI-3 Medium Close Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) Walla Walla: 1886 Yes Male 2,439 MI-2 MI-3 Medium Close Maximum
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
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]
Oct. 5—PRINCETON — A Mercer County man has been charged with felony strangulation and other domestic charges, according to a criminal complaint filed by a Mercer County detective. Aaron Miles ...