Keen Mountain Correctional Center Explained

Prison Name:Keen Mountain Correctional Center
Location:State Route 629,
Oakwood, VA 24631
Status:open
Classification:maximum
Capacity:1200
Opened:1990
Managed By:Warden: Israel Hamilton
Director:Harold Clarke

Keen Mountain Correctional Center is a level 4, maximum security correctional facility in Oakwood, Virginia. It opened in 1990 and houses up to 1200 adult male offenders.[1]

Notable inmates

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Christopher Bryan Speight1471716Serving 5 life sentences without parole.[2] Perpetrator of the 2010 Appomattox shootings in which he murdered 8 people, including his sister, and her family.[3] [4] [5]
George Wesley Huguely1458946Serving a 23-year sentence.[6] [7] Convicted in the 2010 murder of Yeardley Love, in which Huguely killed her by repeatedly hitting her head against a wall.[8] [9] [10]

References

  1. Web site: Keen Mountain Correctional Center. 26 September 2019. 2018. PrisonPro.com.
  2. Web site: Winter . Michael . Va. man gets 5 life terms after admitting he killed 8 . 2024-02-19 . USA TODAY . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2010-01-19 . Explosives at Va. shooting suspect’s home . 2024-02-19 . NBC News . en.
  4. Web site: 2010-01-21 . Virginia Family Massacre Victims . 2024-02-19 . www.cbsnews.com . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2010-01-19 . Suspect in Virginia shooting rampage, Christopher Speight, surrenders after manhunt near Appomattox . 2024-02-19 . New York Daily News . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2012-08-30 . George Huguely's Sentence Reduced To 23 Years In Prison For Yeardley Love's Murder - CBS Baltimore . 2024-02-19 . www.cbsnews.com . en-US.
  7. Web site: Huguely Serving Sentence at Keen Mountain Correctional Center. 23 October 2012. 26 September 2019. NBC29.
  8. Web site: 2010-05-07 . Yeardley Love murder update: Suspect George Huguely got violent when drunk, says friend . 2024-02-19 . New York Daily News . en-US.
  9. Web site: 2010-05-03 . Police: Suspect admits hitting slain woman . 2024-02-19 . NBC News . en.
  10. Web site: George Huguely Trial: Yeardley Love's Brain Hemorrhaged from Force . 2024-02-19 . ABC News . en.

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