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The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is an agency of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...
within the state
Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...
that operates the state's
prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...
s, jails and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of
Charleston. 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 1 January 1986 a two-day riot began at the
West Virginia State Penitentiary
The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic-style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1876 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training f ...
resulted in three inmate deaths.
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.
Facilities
Community Correctional Facilities
Adult Correctional Facilities
County Owned Contract Facilities
Regional Jails
Juvenile Correctional Facilities
Youth Reporting Centers
Fallen officers
Five officers have died in the line of duty.
The Officer Down Memorial Page
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See also
* List of law enforcement agencies in West Virginia
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 ''Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies,'' the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 s ...
* List of United States state correction agencies
This is a list of corrections agencies in the states of the United States.
State adult prison agencies
* Alabama Department of Corrections
* Alaska Department of Corrections
* Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry
* Ark ...
* List of U.S. state prisons
This is a list of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Flor ...
* West Virginia Penitentiary
The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic-style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1876 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training f ...
References
External links
Official website of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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State law enforcement agencies of West Virginia
Juvenile detention centers in the United States
State corrections departments of the United States
Lists of United States state prisons
State agencies of West Virginia