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West Virginia has 12 state correctional facilities in operation and 4 Work Release Centers. West Virginia's oldest prison, the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, is no longer in operation. However, its beautiful structure and rumors of haunting have made it a popular tourist attraction.
There are currently 7000 inmates across West Virginia in functioning prisons. Inmates are provided with correctional programs to aid them during their prison stay. These are, among others, an anger management program, education on drug and alcohol issues, a women's addiction program and crime victim awareness program, to help offenders understand the effects of crime on others. The West Virginia Department of Corrections has been notably active in providing assistance to victims, especially those who have been the targets of domestic violence. All victims are serviced by the VINE network, as in most other states, which provides information on inmates, such as release dates, and criminal cases.
West Virginia became the twelfth state to abolish capital punishment in 1965, though some debate still continues over wether or not this sentence should be legal to carry out.
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04, Jun 2012 - Gallup Jailbird fares well against Obama in West Virginia's Democratic primary
A man in prison in Texas garners 4 out of 10 votes in the Democratic election, highlighting the president's unpopularity in the state
04, Jun 2012 - Wellsburg Brooke County children help police dogs - Weirton Daily Times
A group of children from throughout Brooke ... to another police dog. In addition to the four officers involved, a presentation of the donations was attended by representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia ...
04, Jun 2012 - Wheeling WVU's Appalachian book project now a nonprofit - The State Journal
WVU Department of English associate professor Katy Ryan and several of her graduate students started the Appalachian Prison Book Project in 2004. The program sends free books to inmates in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee in ...
04, Jun 2012 - Fayetteville West Virginia - Times-Leader
June 2, 2012 FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP ... more »» Ex-Mason Co. school official sentenced for bribery June 2, 2012 POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mason County Board of Education member has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for ...
04, Jun 2012 - West Virginia Mother Gets Jail Time for Truancy - WVNT-TV
Media outlets report that Circuit Judge Duke Bloom sentenced Melissa Pennington on Wednesday to 20 days in jail for each of her three children. She pleaded guilty to three counts of second-offense truancy. In the other case earlier this year, Bloom gave ...
04, Jun 2012 - Biden Doesn't 'Blame People' for Anger, Frustration in W.Va. Felon Vote
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that it’s understandable why 40 percent of Democrats in this month’s West Virginia presidential primary opted for a convicted felon serving time in a Texas prison over incumbent President Barack Obama. “When you’re out of work, man, it’s a...
04, Jun 2012 - Franklin Angels OF Hunter out after son's arrest in Texas - Daily Jeffersonian
(AP) -- Torii Hunter was placed on the Los Angeles Angels' restricted list Monday after his teenage son was arrested in Texas ... and scholarship offers from Texas Tech, SMU and West Virginia, among others. Hunter flew back to California ...
04, Jun 2012 - Wheeling Drug suspect who fled W.Va. enters guilty pleas - Charleston Daily Mail
WHEELING, W.Va. -- An Ohio man who triggered a nationwide ... drug-conspiracy and contempt of court charges in West Virginia. Forty-three-year-old David Kidd of Martins Ferry could get more than 40 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine when sentenced ...
04, Jun 2012 - Gallup Texarkana prison inmate gets votes against Obama
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
04, Jun 2012 - Wellsburg Carolyn Beagle - Weirton Daily Times
A group of children from throughout Brooke ... to another police dog. In addition to the four officers involved, a presentation of the donations was attended by representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia ...
04, Jun 2012 - Smithfield N.C. man among three charged with shipping guns to China - Winston-Salem Journal
If convicted, Debose and the other defendants could face up to 20 years each in prison. There is no indication that any of the weapons belonged to the military. Debose joined the West Virginia National Guard the same month the government alleges ...
04, Jun 2012 - Gallup Anyone but Obama: jailbird gets primary votes in Texas
Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the US? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
04, Jun 2012 - Wheeling Robber Dead In Store Shooting - Wheeling News-Register
"An unknown white man tried to rob the Elm Grove Pharmacy and brandished a hand gun," said Wheeling police Deputy Chief Martin Kimball. Kimball said later he could not give any more details as the West Virginia State Police had taken over the investigation.
03, Jun 2012 - Beckley UPDATE: Former UBB Security Chief Appeals Conviction in UBB Mine Blast - WSAZ
UPDATE 3/14/12 @ 10 a.m. BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP ... of documents after the 2010 disaster that killed 29 men in southern West Virginia. During the hearing, Stover was sentenced to three years in prison. Once he is released, he will spend two ...
03, Jun 2012 - Former West Virginia State Penitentiary Hosting Third Annual Women in Agriculture
You can learn about starting a backyard bee hive, square foot gardening with homemade compost and much more. Vendors will be on site.
03, Jun 2012 - Lessons learned from inmate's challenge to Obama in W.Va.
 The name of the federal prisoner -- Keith Judd -- who won 41 percent of the vote versus President Barack Obama in Tuesday's West Virginia Democratic primary isn't as important as the fact that the incumbent commander in chief won only 59 percent of the vote. Republicans h …
03, Jun 2012 - Hillary 2012? Obama In Serious Danger of Losing Arkansas Primary - Big Hollywood
After President Obama's humiliating showing against a West Virginia prison inmate earlier this month, a more serious humiliation could be in making after the May 22 Arkansas primary. According to a new poll of Arkansas Democrats taken by Talk ...
03, Jun 2012 - Bluefield Third suspect in store owner death arrested - Mount Airy News
The last of three West Virginia residents wanted in connection to the fatal shooting of a local store owner during what authorities are calling an armed robbery was arrested Saturday in far western Virginia. Joshua Robert Berry, 28, of Bluefield ...
03, Jun 2012 - Pineville Oceana man receives prison time for drug dealing role - Register-Herald
An Oceana man is facing up to 90 years in prison for his role in drug distribution in Wyoming ... Lester, 63, of Oceana, was sentenced to six to 90 years consecutively in the custody of the West Virginia Department of Corrections in Wyoming County Circuit ...
03, Jun 2012 - Morgantown West Virginia football players arrested for stealing Doritos and Gatorade - myfoxny.com
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- Two West Virginia football players were arrested for stealing Doritos, pretzels and Gatorade from a gas station near the Morgantown campus. According to The Dominion Post, safeties Terence Garvin and Darwin Cook allegedly swiped the ...
03, Jun 2012 - "I Always Knew Somebody Would Get Killed Inside That Place" - Mother Jones
No one was fired or sent to jail. Under the Occupational Safety and Health ... an unidentified safety supervisor in the OSHA regional office covering Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC, urged inspectors ...
03, Jun 2012 - West Virginia Football 2012: Thank Bill Stewart for WVU's Offensive Explosion
I feel guilty for just now writing something relative to Bill Stewart 's legacy. It's sinful, especially for a self-professed die hard West Virginia fan. Stewart's passing was and is a tough thing to absorb, but I finally feel as though I have something (somewhat) worthwhile to harp on. That three-headed offensive behemoth that is Geno Smith, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey? Thank Bill Stewart ...
03, Jun 2012 - New Martinsville W.Va. police find 4 bodies in wooded area - Wetzel Chronicle
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia State Police said late Saturday they had found four bodies in a wooded area and believe they are those of a missing man, his girlfriend and his two young children. Police said in a news release that the bodies ...
03, Jun 2012 - W.Va. could add hurdles to primary ballot
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia officials have several options if they wish to avoid a repeat an outcome of this months primary election, when imprisoned felon Keith Judd attracted nearly 41 percent of the vote against President Barack Obama.
03, Jun 2012 - Romney Federal prisoner gives Obama run for his money in W.Va.
A 52-year-old felon with a ponytail, a mullet and a 210-month federal prison sentence — and a surprisingly deep political experience — gave President Barack Obama a serious fight Tuesday night in West Virginia’s Democratic primary election. With 37 of 55 counties reporting their results, Keith Russell Judd had collected 45,203 votes statewide, or 42.26 percent of the total.
03, Jun 2012 - Romney: Democrats Have Disunity, Not GOP
Mitt Romney is campaigning in Colorado today, where he lost to Rick Santorum during the bruising Republican primary battle. But in a radio interview today Romney said the Democrats are the ones with a unity problem, especially after a prison inmate in West Virginia was...
03, Jun 2012 - Ten residents sentenced in Bluefield drug crackdown - Bluefield Daily Telegraph
“Prescription drug abuse is the biggest crime problem here in the southern district of West Virginia. It’s one of the most pressing ... sentenced to 15 months in prison for distributing hydromorphone (commonly known as Dilaudid); • Steven C.
03, Jun 2012 - Obama Vs. "The Prisoner"
A challenger to President Obama, who turns out to be an inmate in a federal prison in Texas, got 41% of the vote in Tuesday's West Virginia Presidential primary.
03, Jun 2012 - Clinton Negative Coattails: Could Obama Cost Arkansas Democrats The Legislature?
President Obama's performance in next Tuesday's Arkansas primary won't be as embarrassing as what happened in West Virginia two weeks ago, when he gave up 41 percent of the vote to someone who happened to be sitting in a federal prison in Texas for embezzlement. But it may well do more lasting damage to his party.
03, Jun 2012 - Wheeling Former Teacher Arrested - Intelligencer
WHEELING - West Virginia State Police arrested Jennifer Bennett on Tuesday for allegedly exchanging nude pictures with a former student while she was a teacher at Wheeling Middle School. Ohio County Magistrate Patricia Murphy arraigned Bennett, 35 ...
03, Jun 2012 - Romney Police say man is charged in deaths of 4 in W.Va. - MyFox Phoenix
James Belknap was arrested Monday afternoon and faces four counts of first-degree murder, said West Virginia State Police Sgt ... and other sugary drinks in an effort to combat obesity. Romney wins Texas primary, clinches Republican nomination Romney ...
03, Jun 2012 - South Charleston State’s prison overcrowding problem - Logan Banner
The issues related to West Virginia’s prison overcrowding problem keep piling ... The second was while about 30 legislators and their aides toured the South Central Regional Jail in South Charleston. The tour was informative to participants, who saw ...
03, Jun 2012 - Taft Why Tuesday's Democratic Primaries Matter - RealClearPolitics
This comes on the heels of losing 40.6 percent of the vote in West Virginia to a Texas prison inmate, 21 percent of the vote ... less than 60 percent of the vote in any primary: Taft in ’12; Coolidge, ’24; Hoover, ’32; LBJ, ’68; Ford ...
03, Jun 2012 - W.Va. man suspected of killing 4 had drug debt - Marietta Times
(AP) — A West Virginia man suspected of killing two adults and two young children, removing their clothing and tossing the bodies down a mountainside owed a drug debt to one of the victims and had been sentenced to prison five years ago in another drug ...
03, Jun 2012 - Logan Kids Found Hurt in Crashed Car; Mom Charged with Neglect
West Virginia State Police tell WSAZ.com Georgia Roberts was arrested Thursday near Chapmanville.
03, Jun 2012 - Huntington FIRST ON WSAZ.COM: Charleston Man Indicted in 2011 I-64 Fatal Crash - WSAZ
Hudnall graduated from Winfield High School in 2004 and was a student at West Virginia State University ... He has until Monday to post it or go to jail. Sturm is scheduled for trial September 17. UPDATE 9/22/11 @ 3:15 p.m. KANAWHA COUNTY ...
03, Jun 2012 - Wheeling W.Va., Ohio state police kick off safety efforts - WXIX
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia State Police plan to kick off its Operation ... (AP) - A central Kentucky man has been arrested after a mother complained he was trying to marry her 15-year-old daughter. Stanford police say 34-year-old Chris Gosser ...
03, Jun 2012 - Parkersburg Republican Candidate For WV Attorney General In Parkersburg - WTAP
He says that a strong Attorney General will help make West Virginia a better business climate and prevent further budget cuts to our brave public servants. Morrisey is also making other stops around town including the Parkersburg Police Department.
03, Jun 2012 - I-66 traffic stop turns into drug bust
A Warren County Sheriff's Deputy arrested a West Virginia man on a charge of driving under the influence of narcotics late Sunday night after he was found with drugs and drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop, according to the Sheriff Daniel McEathron.
03, Jun 2012 - Bluefield Police Make 4 Arrests in Taco Bell Arson Case
RAINELLE (WVVA) - The West Virginia State Police have arrested four people for the arson of the Taco Bell in Charmco. The business was broken into and burned during the night. Police arrested 23-year-old
03, Jun 2012 - Bellefontaine W.Va., Ohio state police kick off safety efforts - Bellefontaine Examiner
The state police will be joined by Pennsylvania and Ohio troopers at an event Friday to mark the effort at the new West Virginia Welcome Center on Interstate 70 near Wheeling. Legislators and representatives of AAA are also planning to be on hand ...
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