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The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic-style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1866 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training facility, and filming location. [2]
Jan 9, 2024 · Discover the West Virginia Penitentiary's past: its building, management, struggles, and the court cases that resulted in its 1995 shutdown.
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Denmar Correctional Center and Jail
The Denmar Correctional Center and Jailis a medium security prison located near Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Originally established as a hospital in 1919, the facility was later converted into a prison to house adult male offenders. Today, the center has a capacity of approximately 232 inmates. The facility provides a variety of programs and services to help inmates reintegrate into society upon their release, including educational and vocational training, substance abuse tr...
Lakin Correctional Center and Jail
Lakin Correctional Center and Jailis a maximum security correctional facility situated six miles north of Point Pleasant on WV Route 62. It is the only all-female prison in West Virginia, housing custody levels ranging from minimum to maximum. The facility has a current capacity of 543 inmates. As a maximum security prison, Lakin Correctional Center and Jail employs strict security measures to ensure the safety of both staff and inmates. The prison also provides a range of programs and servic...
Martinsburg Correctional Center and Jail
The Martinsburg Correctional Center and Jailis a 120-bed intake and classification unit that houses male offenders. Located just a mile east of Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia, the facility originally opened in 1989 as the Eastern Regional Jail. Today, it serves as a crucial facility in the state’s correctional system, providing a secure environment for newly admitted inmates to be classified and evaluated before being transferred to other state correctional facilities. The cent...
Stevens Correctional Center
Stevens Correctional Centeris a minimum-security facility located in Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia. Since its inception in 1982, the center has had a capacity of 322 beds and has been responsible for approximately 1724 bookings annually. The facility is responsible for housing inmates from all of McDowell County under the West Virginia Sheriff’s jurisdiction. The center is designed to provide a secure environment that allows inmates to learn new skills and prepare for their eventual r...
Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton
The Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton is a medium-security federal prison located in unincorporated Preston County, West Virginia. It is one of two prisons that make up the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Hazelton, with the other being the high-security United States Penitentiary, Hazelton. The facility is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCI Hazelton houses male inmates, while also serving as a secure facility for f...
Federal Correctional Institution, Beckley
The Federal Correctional Institution, Beckley (FCI Beckley) is a medium-security prison located in West Virginia. It is exclusively for male inmates and is managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The facility houses medium-security prisoners, while an adjacent satellite camp is reserved for minimum-security offenders. FCI Beckley is situated around 51 miles southeast of Charleston, West Virginia, and 136 miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia. The facility provides various programs and servic...
Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer
Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer is a medium-security federal prison for male inmates situated in West Virginia. The facility is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which falls under the United States Department of Justice. In addition to the main prison, there is also a satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male inmates. The location of FCI Gilmer is in central West Virginia, 85 miles northeast of Charleston and 150 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The facilit...
Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center
The Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center is a facility in Boone County, West Virginia that provides residential care to male residents between the ages of 10 and 21 and female residents between the ages of 12 and 21. With a total capacity of 48 residents, the facility is equipped with two intake rooms and two medical rooms. The south unit of the facility offers 24-hour care to high-risk pre-adjudicated or detention residents, while the north unit provides maximum security for post-adjudicated or co...
Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center
Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center (GSJC) is a detention center located in Fayette County, West Virginia. The center primarily serves the southern portion of the state for detained youth. GSJC is a hardware secure facility that houses youth who have been charged or found guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony crime. The center has a capacity of 23 beds and is a temporary holding facility for boys aged 10 to 21 and girls aged 12 to 21. Each resident is unique, and their stay at the center may result in...
J. M. Chick Buckbee Juvenile Center
The J.M. “Chick” Buckbee Juvenile Center in Hampshire County, West Virginia is a twenty-four (24) bed facility that houses male residents in both detention and commitment statuses. The facility provides a range of services to residents, including educational and medical services, individual and group counseling, recreational activities, and religious services. Additionally, the facility offers seasonal/holiday celebrations, special guest speakers, recreational tournaments, special resident/st...
Instructions on looking up any West Virginia inmate, parolee, supervised release or discharged prisoner. How to look up inmates in the Bureau of Prisons and ICE Detainees.
This site is set-up for offenders that are under active supervision, in prison or on parole status only, with WV Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Those that have discharged or have moved from the custody of the WV Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation will NOT appear in the search.
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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.
