The prison’s fate was sealed in 1986 when the West Virginia State Supreme Court ruled that confinement to a 5-by-7-foot cell was considered cruel and unusual punishment. The penitentiary closed ...

(AP) - It has been a long time since I believed in actual ghosts, but I was willing to go looking for them at the West Virginia State Penitentiary ... visited the prison chapel, a small, white ...

One of the most haunted places in America is tucked away in the West Virginia panhandle, in an abandoned prison where they ...

94 prisoners were executed at the West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, several were buried within the walls of the prison.Whitegate Cemetery was created in 1897 by an act of the West ...