Stock photography picture of West Virginia Penitentiary

AFT5NM - Licenced Caption West Virginia Penitentiary Description Moundsville West Virginia Razor wire in the exercise yard at the West Virginia Penitentiary The penitentiary was constructed in 1866 and closed in 1995 after a court ruled that the prison s 5x7 foot cells were cruel and unusual punishment The Moundsville Economic Development Council now conducts tours of the facility and corrections officials use it for training purposes Keywords penitentiary, prison, jail, slammer, corrections, criminal, justice, incarceration, detention, penal, confinement, crime, punishment, razor, wire, outdoors, outside, West, Virginia, Penitentiary, travel, tourism, museum, destination, sightseeing, tour, history, historic, rust, Moundsville, West, Virginia, WV, USA, United, States, America, appalachia, horizontal