United States · VA · Pocahontas
Pocahontas State Correctional Center
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Pocahontas State Correctional Center is a state prison located in Tazewell County, Virginia. Rated capacity: 1,034. Reported population: 1,026. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
450
Current population
1,026
Occupancy
228%
Year opened
2007
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
2007
Region
VA
Security level
Minimum
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.
Notable inmates
- Montie Rissell1958 · serial killer
Montie Ralph Rissell (born November 28, 1958), also known as Monte, is an American serial killer and rapist who raped and murdered five women between 1976 and 1977 in Alexandria, Virginia, where he lived. .
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 30/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Extreme overcrowding at 228% of capacity
This facility scores 30. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 28 points above 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
- VADOC — Facilities
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- VADOC — Facilities — Virginia Department of Corrections
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7206278)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Pocahontas State Correctional Center. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pocahontas-state-correctional-center
"Pocahontas State Correctional Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pocahontas-state-correctional-center.
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title = {Pocahontas State Correctional Center},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-10-23}
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