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    The West Virginia Penitentiary, located in Moundsville, West Virginia is now a withdrawn and retired gothic-style prison that operated from 1866 to 1995...
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    Time, March 15, 1971 "Gallery". "West Virginia Penitentiary | Moundsville | Prison Tours". West Virginia Penitentiary. Flowers and Flowers, p. 63 Richard...
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    foreign nations. On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. The Eastern Regional Jail...
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  • Mount Olive Correctional Complex (category Prisons in West Virginia)
    Rehabilitation. Built as a replacement for the Civil War-era West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) is located...
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    The United States Penitentiary, Hazelton (USP Hazelton) is a high-security United States federal prison for men in West Virginia. The high-security facility...
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    United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. The original USDB followed the Pennsylvania plan modeling on a layout of the Eastern State Penitentiary where cell...
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  • series Castle Rock. For the series, the showrunners used the West Virginia Penitentiary as the prison. “Part of the reason we chose the prison that we...
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    structure was replaced by a gothic-style stone and brick building (West Virginia Penitentiary now operated as a tourist attraction), probably modeled upon a...
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    Eugene Blake (serial killer) (category People convicted of murder by West Virginia)
    His appeal was rejected, and he remained incarcerated at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville. During his time in prison, Blake was described...
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  • Castle Rock (TV series) (category Television shows filmed in West Virginia)
    the month, production took place at the former West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia, which appeared as the fictional Shawshank State...
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  • State Penitentiary West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia Wetumpka State Penitentiary, formerly Alabama State Penitentiary State...
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    County, Virginia Washington Washington State Penitentiary – Walla Walla, Washington West Virginia Mt. Olive Correctional Complex – Fayette County, West Virginia...
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    headquartered in Moundsville from 1891 to 1986. The retired West Virginia State Penitentiary operated in Moundsville from 1867 to 1995. On August 4, 1927...
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    with fire hoses and tear gas. Powers was then moved to the West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville. Powers' five-day trial was held at a local...
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    of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries Federal correctional institutions Private correctional institutions...
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    United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾaθ] "the gannet") or The Rock, was...
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  • amusement park located on the grounds of Indian burial sites. West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973...
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  • locations used in the show were: Season 1 (2000–2001) Episode 1 – West Virginia Penitentiary Episode 2 – St. Agnes Hospital for the Chronically Ill* (Real...
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  • Edward Walton (serial killer) (category People convicted of murder by West Virginia)
    for a while. After killing Beulah Martin on March 3, 1908, in Gypsy, West Virginia for refusing to have sex with him, Walton was chased after by a posse...
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    of the total electric power demand in Louisiana. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is also located in the parish, in Angola. It occupies 18,000 acres at...
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  • Upjohn's entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery (1860s) West Virginia Penitentiary (1867–1876), Moundsville, West Virginia St. Mary's Catholic Church (1910), Indianapolis...
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  • 21 January 2019 (2019-01-21) The history of the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia, as well as the ghost stories associated with the...
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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    1979, Williams and fourteen other inmates escaped from the West Virginia State Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of...
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  • in the 94 years it was open. 5 "West Virginia Penitentiary" West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia Northeastern Spirit Society July 15...
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    Ankara Turkey Prison www.ulucanlarcezaevimuzesi.com West Virginia Penitentiary Moundsville West Virginia United States Prison www.wvpentours.com Wicklow Gaol...
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    David Bruner died in the electric chair at the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia, becoming the last person to be executed in that...
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  • Circuit Court, sentenced to 335 years in prison and sent to the West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville to serve his sentence. In 1992 Woodall was found...
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  • Lichtblau, Eric (July 14, 2005). "Scholar Is Given Life Sentence in 'Virginia Jihad' Case". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 27,...
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  • September 3, 2009. Retrieved on September 1, 2010. "Kentucky State Penitentiary Prepares For 165th Execution Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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