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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]
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]
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.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton (FCI Hazelton) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates, as well as a secure facility for female inmates, located in unincorporated Preston County, West Virginia. [3]
The facility is located in an unincorporated area of Preston County, West Virginia, [1] several miles east of Bruceton Mills, [2] less than two miles (3.2 km) west of the Maryland border. The Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Hazelton has three prisons, physically adjacent but distinct: USP Hazelton and the medium-security Federal Correctional ...
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 ...
[3] [4] Within nine years, West Virginia Penitentiary was closed as a prison. [3] [4] Most of the inmates were transferred to the Mt. Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County, West Virginia. [2] [3] A smaller correctional facility was built a mile away in Moundsville to serve as a regional jail. [2] [3]
Roughly five months after Patrick Cagey’s death, his parents wrote the facility where he had been treated to request their son’s medical records. Jim Cagey hand-delivered the letter to Recovery Works — he didn’t want to risk it getting lost in the mail. When the facility didn’t respond, Jim and Anne followed up with multiple phone calls.