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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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Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

1995

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

West Virginia Division of Corrections

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1995

Region

WV

Security level

Death-row facility

No

Conditions

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Visiting

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Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

1 Mountainside Way, Mount Olive 25185

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Data completeness

34%

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