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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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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1995
Region
WV
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
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World Prisons. (2026). Mount Olive Correctional Complex. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mount-olive-correctional-complex
"Mount Olive Correctional Complex." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/mount-olive-correctional-complex.
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title = {Mount Olive Correctional Complex},
year = {2026},
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