The West Virginia Division of Corrections 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."Contact." West Virginia Division of Corrections. Retrieved on December 8, 2009. 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.
History On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths.
The Eastern Regional Jail 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.
The former Salem Industrial Home for Youth was converted into an adult prison, the Salem Correctional Center, in 2015.
All of the division's facilities are overcrowded and understaffed. Press reports in late 2017 indicated the division was short three hundred correctional officers. 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.
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.
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.W.Va. announces leadership for consolidated corrections.
Facilities Community Correctional Facilities NameBedsCityCountySecurity levelNoteCiteAnthony Correctional Center204NeolaGreenbrier CountyminimumYouthful Offender FacilityBeckley Correctional Center137BeckleyRaleigh CountyminimumWork Release facility, male & femaleCharleston Correctional Center128CharlestonKanawha CountyminimumWork Release facility, male & femaleParkersburg Correctional Center and Wood County Holding Center306ParkersburgWood CountyminimumWork Release & Substance Abuse Treatment facility, male
Adult Correctional Facilities NameInitialsCityCountyNoteCiteDenmar Correctional CenterDCCHillsboroPocahontas CountyMedium (male)Huttonsville Correctional Center/Huttonsville Work CampHCCHuttonsvilleRandolph CountyClose (male)Lakin Correctional CenterLCCWest ColumbiaMason CountyAll levels & intake facility (female)Martinsburg Correctional CenterMCCMartinsburgBerkeley CountyIntake Facility (male)Mount Olive Correctional Complex/Slayton Work CampMOCCMount OliveFayette CountyMaximum (male)Northern Correctional FacilityNCFMoundsvilleMarshall CountyClose (male)Ohio County Correctional CenterOCCCWheelingOhio CountyMinimum (male)Pruntytown Correctional CenterPCCGraftonTaylor CountyMedium (male)St. Marys Correctional CenterSMCCSt. MarysPleasants CountyMedium (male)Salem Correctional CenterSCCSalemHarrison CountyAll levels, (Male) intake Medium, (Male) Residents
County Owned Contract Facilities NameCityCountyNoteCiteStevens Correctional Center/McDowell County CorrectionsWelchMcDowell CountyOwned by the McDowell County Commission and contracted to house overflow state inmates.
Regional Jails NameCityCountyOpenedCounties ServedCiteCentral Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityFlatwoodsBraxton CountyFeb. 1993Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Roane, WebsterEastern Regional Jail and Corrections FacilityMartinsburgBerkeley CountySept. 1999Berkeley, Jefferson, MorganNorth Central Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityGreenwoodDoddridge CountyAug. 2001Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, WoodNorthern Regional JailMoundsvilleMarshall CountyNov. 1994Brooke, Hancock, Ohio, WetzelPotomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityAugustaHampshire CountyFeb. 2000Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, PendletonSouth Central Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityCharlestonKanawha CountyJuly 1993Jackson, KanawhaSouthern Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBeaverRaleigh CountyJune 1994Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, WyomingSouthwestern Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityHoldenLogan CountyApril 1998Boone, Logan, McDowell, MingoTygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBelingtonRandolph CountyAug. 2005Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, UpshurWestern Regional Jail and Correctional FacilityBarboursvilleCabell CountyDec. 2003Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne
Juvenile Correctional Facilities NameBedsCityCountySecurity levelNoteCiteDonald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center48JulianBoone CountymaximumGene Spadaro Juvenile Center23Mount HopeFayette CountyunknownJ.M. "Chick" Buckbee Juvenile Center24AugustaHampshire CountyunknownKenneth “Honey” Rubenstein Juvenile Center84DavisTucker CountyminimumLorrie Yeager Jr. Juvenile Center24ParkersburgWood CountymaximumRobert L. Shell Juvenile Diagnostic and Intake Center23BarboursvilleCabell CountyunknownRonald C. Mulholland Juvenile Center26WheelingOhio CountyunknownSam Perdue Juvenile CenterunknownPrincetonMercer CountyunknownJames H. "Tiger" Morton Juvenile Center23DunbarKanawha CountyunknownVicki V. Douglas Juvenile Center23MartinsburgBerkeley & Jefferson Countiesunknown
Youth Reporting Centers NameCityCountyCounties ServedNoteCiteBoone Logan County Youth Reporting CenterMadisonBoone CountyBoone, LoganBrooke Hancock County Youth Reporting CenterWeirtonHancock CountyBrooke, HancockCabell County Youth Reporting CenterHuntingtonCabell CountyCabellFayette County Youth Reporting CenterOak HillFayette CountyFayetteGreenbrier County Youth Reporting CenterLewisburgGreenbrier CountyGreenbrierHarrison County Youth Reporting CenterClarksburgHarrison CountyHarrisonJefferson County Youth Reporting CenterRansonJefferson CountyJeffersonKanawha County Youth Reporting CenterCharlestonKanawha CountyKanawhaLincoln County Youth Reporting CenterHamlinLincoln CountyLincolnMarion County Youth Reporting CenterFairmontMarion CountyMarionMason County Youth Reporting CenterPoint PleasantMason CountyMasonMercer County Youth Reporting CenterPrincetonMercer CountyMercerPutnam County Youth Reporting CenterWinfieldPutnam CountyPutnamSTARS Berkeley County Youth Reporting CenterMartinsburgBerkeley CountyBerkeley, Jefferson, MorganWetzel Tyler County Youth Reporting CenterPaden CityWetzel CountyWetzel, TylerWood County Youth Reporting CenterViennaWood CountyWood
Fallen officers
Seven officers have died in the line of duty. One by assault, one by automobile crash, one by gunfire, and four by stabbing. Six of these officers were male and one was female.The Officer Down Memorial Page
See also
List of law enforcement agencies in West Virginia List of United States state correction agencies List of U.S. state prisons West Virginia Penitentiary
References
External links Official website of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation