WV DOC - Parkersburg Correctional Center (PBCC)

WV DOC - Parkersburg Correctional Center (PBCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 304-420-2443

The inmates housed at Parkersburg Correctional located at 225 Holiday HIlls Dr in Parkersburg, WV are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

Parkersburg Correctional Center and Jail were formerly the Holiday Inn that closed in August 2007. PBCC officially opened on August 6, 2012 and received the first inmates on August 29, 2012. PBCC is a minimum-security facility which currently houses 130 male offenders who are carefully screened through a risk assessment classification method for participation in the work release program. Inmates assigned to the facility are minimum or community classification status and must be within eighteen months of parole eligibility or discharge. They are monitored for program compliance, tested for alcohol and drug use, and supervised when in the community through random phone calls, supervisor evaluations, and unannounced visits from staff.

Inmates are encouraged to further their education by attending General Education Classes (GED), vocational classes, and college courses when applicable. They are also employed in the community in various jobs and pay a percentage of their income to the facility to help defray the cost of incarceration and save taxpayers money. They also utilize their opportunity in the work release program to begin paying child support, court costs or fines, and restitution they may owe. PBCC inmates also assist local communities through various community service projects.

Work Release Program

Inmates are required to work assigned jobs while at the facility as well as perform a minimum of 80 hours of Community Service work. Upon completion of community service, inmates from facility employment inmates that are work release status obtain employment within the community in a variety of fields to include Department of Highways, construction, restaurant and retail sales. Work Release status inmates also earn two-hour passes and overnight furloughs to immediate family members based on behavior, history and approval of officials in the prospective furloughing county. Inmates out in the community are monitored by the PBCC staff through random telephone calls, employment evaluations; visual employment checks furlough visits and random drug & alcohol testing.

RSAT Unit Inmates

Inmates volunteer to participate in the RSAT program which is a very structured program consisting of 4 phases. The 1st phase is the entry level inmates and they progress to the 4th phase which when completed they will become eligible to transfer to the Work Release Program.