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 ...

the West Virginia Penitentiary. This historic building is best known for its spooky tours, but far scarier surprises await those brave enough to enter. What once held the state’s most dangerous ...

Pictured, from left, Mark Hedrick, principal of educational programs at Northern Correctional Center; Melissa Morrison, a regional transition agent with the state Jobs and Hope program; and Jason ...

Joanne Ray has resided a stone's throw from the West Virginia Penitentiary on Jefferson Avenue in Moundsville ... But we complained, and the state put in block windows to make them opaque." Ray's view ...