Huttonsville Correctional Center is the male maximum security prison for the state of West Virginia, USA. It is located near Huttonsville in a rural area of Randolph 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 Medium 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 5,000-acre (20 km2) farm was turned over to the state Farm Management Commission and convered to a beef cattle operation, and the majority of inmates were transferred to other work. Today inmates work on the cattle farm, in a furniture plant, automotive parts shop, and welding shop. The prison is the largest transcriber of textbooks into Braille in the United 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 military basic training and which lasts for a period of 9-12 months.
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