The McDowell County Correctional Center
The McDowell County Correctional Center is located in the heart of West Virginia's southern coal fields. The facility is a component of county government under the direct superintendence of the McDowell County Commission and is supported by the per diem paid by the West Virginia Division of Corrections for the housing of State sentenced inmates from all over the State. The Welch Correctional Facility was built in 1976 replacing a more traditional old time jail that had become dilapidated.
The Stevens facility is scheduled to be operational on December 1, 2005 and will employ another 120 employees and house another 332 State inmates.
The Correctional Center is operated with the assistance of many local organizations including, The Welch City Library, The McDowell County Board of Education, Welch Community Hospital, Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center, The City of Welch and many others.
The Welch Facility has a total of 41 full time employees. Daily average inmate population is 114 post, pre-trial and State sentenced inmates from throughout the State. The facility is also used as a 72 hour holding facility for McDowell County inmates who are arrested and eventually sent to the Regional Jail in Logan, West Virginia.
In addition to the above facility operates a food service kitchen which provides 112,785 meals per year, a facility laundry that provides laundry service for 114 inmates including linen exchange every week and maintains four inmate work crews that provide road clean up and other work services to the county of McDowell.
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