- Huttonsville Correctional Center
Huttonsville Correctional Center is the male
medium security prison for the state ofWest Virginia , USA. It is located near Huttonsville in a rural area ofRandolph County, West Virginia .The prison was established as the "Farm Branch of the West Virginia Penitentiary" in 1937 in response to overcrowding at the West Virginia Penitentiary in
Moundsville, West Virginia . It was renamed as the "West Virginia Medimum Security Prison" in 1947 and to its current name in 1970.The original focus of the prison was as a labor intensive general purpose
farm . In 1977 the convert|5000|acre|adj=on farm was turned over to the state Farm Management Commission and convered to a beefcattle operation, and the majority of inmates were transferred to other work. Today inmates work on the cattle farm, in afurniture plant, automotive parts shop, and welding shop. The prison is the largest transcriber oftextbook s intoBraille in theUnited States , accounting for almost 90% of the Braille textbooks.The current capacity of the prison is 995. The majority of inmates live in
barracks style housing, but two new 120-inmate cell units were opened in 2000. There is also a 100-inmate "intense rehabilitation program" which is similar to militarybasic training and which lasts for a period of 9-12 months.ee also
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Huttonsville State Farm Wildlife Management Area External links
* [http://www.wvf.state.wv.us/wvdoc/hcc.htm Huttonsville Correctional Center]
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