The United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice is a department of the

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government.

Corrections

The Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections (BOC) operates the territory's correctional facilities.Corrections Officers from the Virgin Islands Attend BOP Training
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. November 2, 2016 . Retrieved on November 3, 2016. The Bureau of Corrections maintains a facility in

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,Bureau of Corrections

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. United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice. Retrieved on May 19, 2010
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/ref> the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility. As of October 1, 2014, 132 sentenced prisoners and 136 non-sentenced prisoners are at Golden Grove. The bureau also maintains jails on the island of St. Thomas:Blackburn, Joy.
Corrections transfers 78 inmates to mainland prisons
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''. October 1, 2014. Retrieved on December 9, 2015. those in the Alexander Farrelly Criminal Justice Complex (CJC) and the Alva A. Swan Annex. the BOC does not have a specific correctional officer training program, and instead has the police department train prison guards.

Corrections history

In 2014 the

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asked a federal judge to force the USVI authorities to improve conditions at Golden Grove. Prior to October 1, 2014, due to staffing shortages at Golden Grove, 78 adult prisoners, including 75 sentenced prisoners at Golden Grove and three held at the St. Thomas Jails who were deemed by prison authorities as "behavioral and management concerns", were transferred to the privately operated Citrus County Detention Facility in

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. Circa 2013 USVI authorities stated that they were going to improve conditions at the St. Thomas jails, but a 2015 report from David Bogard, a security analysis, stated that the level of staffing since October 2014 had deteriorated.Blackburn, Joy.
Report: Jail conditions worse than ever Staff shortages, lack of supervision, falsified reports among the issues
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''. July 15, 2015. Retrieved on December 9, 2015.

References

External links

United States Virgin Islands Department of JusticeMirror link
{{authority control State corrections departments of the United States Government of the United States Virgin Islands Law of the United States Virgin Islands