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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] The state incarcerates 273 women per 100,000 population, the highest rate of female incarceration in the world, ahead of all other states and foreign nations.[2]

History

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.[4]

The former Salem Industrial Home for Youth was converted into an adult prison, the Salem Correctional Center, in 2015.[5]

All of the division's facilities are overcrowded and understaffed. Press reports in late 2017 indicated the division was short three hundred correctional officers.[6] Press reports in early 2018 showed that pay for correctional officers in the state ranked 49th in the nation. New correctional officers started at $24,664, about twelve dollars an hour.[7]

From February to July 2018, National Guard troops supplemented the overworked officers. At the end of that period, the Fire Marshal's Office continued to support the division.[8]

Until July 1, 2018, the agency was simply the "West Virginia Division of Corrections" and only operated the adult prisons. On July 1, 2018 the agency absorbed the former West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services and the former West Virginia Regional Jail Authority and assumed its current name.[9][10]

Facilities

Community Correctional Facilities

NameBedsCityCountySecurity levelNoteCite
Anthony Correctional Center204NeolaGreenbrier CountyminimumYouthful Offender Facility[11]
Beckley Correctional Center137BeckleyRaleigh CountyminimumWork Release facility, male & female[12]
Charleston Correctional Center128CharlestonKanawha CountyminimumWork Release facility, male & female[13]
Parkersburg Correctional Center and Wood County Holding Center306ParkersburgWood CountyminimumWork Release & Substance Abuse Treatment facility, male[14]

Adult Correctional Facilities

NameInitialsCityCountyNoteCite
Denmar Correctional CenterDCCHillsboroPocahontas CountyMedium (male)[15]
Huttonsville Correctional Center/Huttonsville Work CampHCCHuttonsvilleRandolph CountyClose (male)[16]
Lakin Correctional CenterLCCWest ColumbiaMason CountyAll levels & intake facility (female)[17]
Martinsburg Correctional CenterMCCMartinsburgBerkeley CountyIntake Facility (male)[18]
Mount Olive Correctional Complex/Slayton Work CampMOCCMount OliveFayette CountyMaximum (male)[19]
Northern Correctional FacilityNCFMoundsvilleMarshall CountyClose (male)[20]
Ohio County Correctional CenterOCCCWheelingOhio CountyMinimum (male)[21]
Pruntytown Correctional CenterPCCGraftonTaylor CountyMedium (male)[22]
St. Marys Correctional CenterSMCCSt. MarysPleasants CountyMedium (male)[23]
Salem Correctional CenterSCCSalemHarrison CountyAll levels, (Male) intake

Medium, (Male) Residents

[24]

County Owned Contract Facilities

NameCityCountyNoteCite
Stevens Correctional Center/McDowell County CorrectionsWelchMcDowell CountyOwned by the McDowell County Commission and contracted to house overflow state inmates.[25]

Regional Jails

NameCityCountyOpened[26]Counties ServedCite
Central Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityFlatwoodsBraxton CountyFeb. 1993Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Roane, Webster[27]
Eastern Regional Jail and Corrections FacilityMartinsburgBerkeley CountySept. 1999Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan[28]
North Central Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityGreenwoodDoddridge CountyAug. 2001Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood[29]
Northern Regional JailMoundsvilleMarshall CountyNov. 1994Brooke, Hancock, Ohio, Wetzel[30]
Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityAugustaHampshire CountyFeb. 2000Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton[31]
South Central Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityCharlestonKanawha CountyJuly 1993Jackson, Kanawha[32]
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBeaverRaleigh CountyJune 1994Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, Wyoming[33]
Southwestern Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityHoldenLogan CountyApril 1998Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo[34]
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBelingtonRandolph CountyAug. 2005Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur[35]
Western Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBarboursvilleCabell CountyDec. 2003Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne[36]

Juvenile Correctional Facilities

NameBedsCityCountySecurity levelNoteCite
Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center48JulianBoone Countymaximum[37]
Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center23Mount HopeFayette Countyunknown[38]
J.M. "Chick" Buckbee Juvenile Center24AugustaHampshire Countyunknown[39]
Kenneth “Honey” Rubenstein Juvenile Center84DavisTucker Countyminimum[40]
Lorrie Yeager Jr. Juvenile Center24ParkersburgWood Countymaximum[41]
Robert L. Shell Juvenile Diagnostic and Intake Center23BarboursvilleCabell Countyunknown[42]
Ronald C. Mulholland Juvenile Center26WheelingOhio Countyunknown[43]
Sam Perdue Juvenile CenterunknownPrincetonMercer Countyunknown[44]
James H. "Tiger" Morton Juvenile Center23DunbarKanawha Countyunknown[45]
Vicki V. Douglas Juvenile Center23MartinsburgBerkeley & Jefferson Countiesunknown[46]

Youth Reporting Centers

NameCityCountyCounties ServedNoteCite
Boone Logan County Youth Reporting CenterMadisonBoone CountyBoone, Logan[47]
Brooke Hancock County Youth Reporting CenterWeirtonHancock CountyBrooke, Hancock[48]
Cabell County Youth Reporting CenterHuntingtonCabell CountyCabell[49]
Fayette County Youth Reporting CenterOak HillFayette CountyFayette[50]
Greenbrier County Youth Reporting CenterLewisburgGreenbrier CountyGreenbrier[51]
Harrison County Youth Reporting CenterClarksburgHarrison CountyHarrison[52]
Jefferson County Youth Reporting CenterRansonJefferson CountyJefferson[53]
Kanawha County Youth Reporting CenterCharlestonKanawha CountyKanawha[54]
Lincoln County Youth Reporting CenterHamlinLincoln CountyLincoln[55]
Marion County Youth Reporting CenterFairmontMarion CountyMarion[56]
Mason County Youth Reporting CenterPoint PleasantMason CountyMason[57]
Mercer County Youth Reporting CenterPrincetonMercer CountyMercer[58]
Putnam County Youth Reporting CenterWinfieldPutnam CountyPutnam[59]
STARS Berkeley County Youth Reporting CenterMartinsburgBerkeley CountyBerkeley, Jefferson, Morgan[60]
Wetzel Tyler County Youth Reporting CenterPaden CityWetzel CountyWetzel, Tyler[61]
Wood County Youth Reporting CenterViennaWood CountyWood[62]

Fallen officers

Seven officers have died in the line of duty.

One by Assault

One by Automobile Crash

One by Gunfire

Four by Stabbing

6 Males

1 Female

[63]


See also

References

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