The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety that operates prisons. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. Until 1 July 2018, the agency was simply the "West Virginia Division of Corrections."
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.
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.
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History
On 1 January 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths."
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Facilities
Fallen officers
Five officers have died in the line of duty.
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 State Penitentiary
References
External links
- Official website of West Virginia Division of Corrections
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