West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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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]

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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 September 1999. 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 Center204 Neola Greenbrier County minimumYouthful Offender Facility [11]
Beckley Correctional Center137 Beckley Raleigh County minimumWork Release facility, male & female [12]
Charleston Correctional Center128 Charleston Kanawha County minimumWork Release facility, male & female [13]
Parkersburg Correctional Center and Wood County Holding Center306 Parkersburg Wood County minimumWork Release & Substance Abuse Treatment facility, male [14]

Adult Correctional Facilities

NameInitialsCityCountyNoteCite
Denmar Correctional Center DCC Hillsboro Pocahontas County Medium (male) [15]
Huttonsville Correctional Center/Huttonsville Work CampHCC Huttonsville Randolph County Close (male) [16]
Lakin Correctional Center LCC West Columbia Mason County All levels & intake facility (female) [17]
Martinsburg Correctional CenterMCC Martinsburg Berkeley County Intake Facility (male) [18]
Mount Olive Correctional Complex/Slayton Work CampMOCC Mount Olive Fayette County Maximum (male) [19]
Northern Correctional FacilityNCF Moundsville Marshall County Close (male) [20]
Ohio County Correctional CenterOCCC Wheeling Ohio County Minimum (male) [21]
Pruntytown Correctional Center PCC Grafton Taylor County Medium (male) [22]
St. Marys Correctional CenterSMCC St. Marys Pleasants County Medium (male) [23]
Salem Correctional CenterSCC Salem Harrison County Medium (male) [24]

County Owned Contract Facilities

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

Regional Jails

NameCityCountyOpened [26] Counties ServedCite
Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Flatwoods Braxton County Feb. 1993 Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Roane, Webster [27]
Eastern Regional Jail and Corrections Facility Martinsburg Berkeley County Sept. 1999 Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan [28]
North Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Greenwood Doddridge County Aug. 2001 Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood [29]
Northern Regional Jail Moundsville Marshall County Nov. 1994 Brooke, Hancock, Ohio, Wetzel [30]
Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Augusta Hampshire County Feb. 2000 Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton [31]
South Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Charleston Kanawha County July 1993 Jackson, Kanawha [32]
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Beaver Raleigh County June 1994 Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, Wyoming [33]
Southwestern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Holden Logan County April 1998 Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo [34]
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Belington Randolph County Aug. 2005 Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur [35]
Western Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Barboursville Cabell County Dec. 2003 Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne [36]

Juvenile Correctional Facilities

NameBedsCityCountySecurity levelNoteCite
Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center48 Julian Boone County maximum [37]
Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center23 Mount Hope Fayette County unknown [38]
J.M. "Chick" Buckbee Juvenile Center24 Augusta Hampshire County unknown [39]
Kenneth “Honey” Rubenstein Juvenile Center84 Davis Tucker County minimum [40]
Lorrie Yeager Jr. Juvenile Center24 Parkersburg Wood County maximum [41]
Robert L. Shell Juvenile Diagnostic and Intake Center23 Barboursville Cabell County unknown [42]
Ronald C. Mulholland Juvenile Center26 Wheeling Ohio County unknown [43]
Sam Perdue Juvenile Centerunknown Princeton Mercer County unknown [44]
James H. "Tiger" Morton Juvenile Center23 Dunbar Kanawha County unknown [45]
Vicki V. Douglas Juvenile Center23 Martinsburg Berkeley & Jefferson Countiesunknown [46]

Youth Reporting Centers

NameCityCountyCounties ServedNoteCite
Boone Logan County Youth Reporting Center Madison Boone County Boone, Logan [47]
Brooke Hancock County Youth Reporting Center Weirton Hancock County Brooke, Hancock [48]
Cabell County Youth Reporting Center Huntington Cabell County Cabell [49]
Fayette County Youth Reporting Center Oak Hill Fayette County Fayette [50]
Greenbrier County Youth Reporting Center Lewisburg Greenbrier County Greenbrier [51]
Harrison County Youth Reporting Center Clarksburg Harrison County Harrison [52]
Jefferson County Youth Reporting Center Ranson Jefferson County Jefferson [53]
Kanawha County Youth Reporting Center Charleston Kanawha County Kanawha [54]
Lincoln County Youth Reporting Center Hamlin Lincoln County Lincoln [55]
Marion County Youth Reporting Center Fairmont Marion County Marion [56]
Mason County Youth Reporting Center Point Pleasant Mason County Mason [57]
Mercer County Youth Reporting Center Princeton Mercer County Mercer [58]
Putnam County Youth Reporting Center Winfield Putnam County Putnam [59]
STARS Berkeley County Youth Reporting Center Martinsburg Berkeley County Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan [60]
Wetzel Tyler County Youth Reporting Center Paden City Wetzel County Wetzel, Tyler [61]
Wood County Youth Reporting Center Vienna Wood County Wood [62]

Fallen officers

Five officers have died in the line of duty. [63]

See also

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