The West Virginia State Penitentiary, a former maximum-security prison that once held far more inmates than it was built for, continues to draw thousands of visitors each season to its historic ...

Now a tourist destination, the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville was closed to inmates in 1995. More than a century before Immigration and Customs Enforcement was established, West Virginia ...

West Virginia was paid for housing each federal prisoner, and the state’s prison administration was desperate for this revenue. Reports that I reviewed from the penitentiary’s wardens and supervisory ...