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Mount Olive Correctional Complex

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Background

Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) is the male maximum security prison for the state of West Virginia, United States. MOCC is an operational unit of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Built as a replacement for the Civil War-era West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) is located seven miles east of Montgomery on Cannelton Hollow Road in Fayette County. MOCC is the state's only maximum-security correctional facility and has a current capacity of 1,030 inmates. MOCC houses the most violent, high-risk, dangerous and disruptive inmates in the state and has the most diverse inmate population in the state; consisting of general population, punitive segregation, administrative segregation, intake, special management, mental health, acute medical, and work camp inmates.

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1995

Operational

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Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1995

Region

WV

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

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1 Mountainside Way, Mount Olive 25185
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  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Mount Olive Correctional Complex},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mount-olive-correctional-complex},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}