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In 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War. Consequently, the new state had a shortage of various public institutions, including prisons. From 1863 to 1866, Governor Arthur I. Boreman lobbied the West Virginia Legislature for a state penitentiary but was repeatedly denied. The Legislature at first ...
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.
Huttonsville Correctional Center is a prison located near Huttonsville in Randolph County, West Virginia. It was created by an act of the Legislature in 1937 to relieve overcrowding at the West Virginia State Penitentiary. It remained a branch of the parent institution until 1947, at which time the Legislature established it as a separate ...
The prison's fate was sealed in 1986 when the West Virginia State Supreme Court ruled that confinement to a 5-by-7-foot cell was considered cruel and unusual punishment.
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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]
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 .