818 Jefferson Ave
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, 26041
The prison has appeared in various books, movies, and television shows.
Sci Fi Channel's show Ghost Hunters and ABC Family�s Scariest Places On Earth have both featured the Penitentiary.
Hanging was the method of execution until 1949 with eighty-five men meeting that fate. Beginning in 1951, electrocution became the means of execution.
