Walking Through The West Virginia State Penitentiary Is Bone-Chilling
One of the most famous tourist destinations in West Virginia is the West Virginia State Penitentiary. The gothic-style architecture is just amazing and the prison is supposedly haunted! I toured the prison when I was much younger and it honestly frightened me. The noises that the prison makes because it is so old are just unnerving and the peeling paint on all of the walls is just plain depressing.
1) The West Virginia State Penitentiary, which is now closed down as a prison, was opened from 1876 to 1995.
This definitely changed, though. The facility would later on be ranked on the United States Department of Justice's Top Ten Most Violent Correctional Facilities list.
9) Charles Manson requested to be transferred to this very prison so that he could be closer to family, but his request ended up being declined.
Paul Glenn, one of the inmates at the prison, actually built the electric chair nicknamed "Old Sparky" in 1951. Nine men died in this chair until execution was outlawed in 1965.
If only those walls could talk! Think of the crazy things that went down in this prison, from riots to executions! As if I never wanted to go to prison before, I definitely don’t now!
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