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Huttonsville Correctional Center
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Huttonsville Correctional Center is a state prison located in Randolph County, West Virginia. Rated capacity: 1,135. Reported population: 1,131. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Huttonsville Correctional Center, the unofficial home of weight lifting record holder Billy Ray Castle (550 lbs)is a prison located near Huttonsville in Randolph County, West Virginia. It was created by an act of the Legislature in 1937 to relieve overcrowding at the West Virginia State Penitentiary. It remained a branch of the parent institution until 1947, at which time the Legislature established it as a separate entity â the West Virginia Medium Security Prison. In 1970, the center received its current name by legislative act. Huttonsville Correctional Center has been in operation since 1939 and is the oldest facility in the state.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,135
Current population
1,131
Occupancy
100%
Year opened
1939
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1939
Region
West Virginia
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5951126)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Huttonsville Correctional Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/huttonsville-correctional-center
"Huttonsville Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/huttonsville-correctional-center.
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