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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 ...
Lakin Correctional Center (LCC) is a women's prison in the community of Lakin in unincorporated Mason County, West Virginia. [1]It is on a portion of former Lakin State Hospital property, [2] on West Virginia Route 62, in proximity to West Columbia, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Point Pleasant, [3] and 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the Army National Guard armory. [4]
The jail was designed by Franzeim, Geisey and Faris and was built by William D. Bumgarner. [3] The Tucker County Courthouse was established in the wake of the Tucker County Seat War (1893). The historic jail is no longer used to confine inmates. Since 2005 the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in Randolph County has also served Tucker County. [4] [5]
The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at the jail as inhumane. The 2022 lawsuit filed on behalf of current and former inmates cited such complaints as a lack of access to ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force West Virginia to spend $330 million to improve prison and jail conditions statewide and fill worker vacancies.
Two West Virginia corrections officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from the fatal beating of an inmate in a case that has brought scrutiny to conditions and ...
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 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
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