does anyone know anything about the new federal prison that is called Hazelton it is about 20 minutes from morgantown, wv. is it open and does it house men or women or both. any information i would apreciate.

It is a male facility and I believe it just opened.

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46018&highlight=hazelton

Check out this thread for more information. Hazelton's population as of 11/11/04 was 41.

Actually I live 6 minutes away from the new Federal Prison. It houses men as of now and the maximum prisoners where just sent there last month, they had the camp prisoners (whatever that means) there to help finish building. Now they are working on the womens prison right up from it. They also had an open house so we could all walk around and let the community know that they are safe. Lol.. and I know a lot of the CO's and other workers... heck of a deal isnt it.

New prison huh? My SO put in a transfer request to this location from TX and informed me that it should take about 3 mos. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because the distance between DC and TX - good grief! I hate to think about it