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Keen Mountain Correctional Center Case Study

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Keen Mountain Correctional Center is located in Buchanan County, Virginia on a 159 acres of land in a town called Oakwood. It is classified as a level 2 prison that houses prisoners that are serving single, multiple and life sentences. It was opened in 1990, their daily average population is about 879 prisoners. It has a special population that has protective custody unit housing. They have no programs or had upgrades to the facility since it was first opened. They have a vinyl/silk screen industry plus a janitorial industry for its prisoners. After visiting several other prisons so far, as of right now it is kind of hard to expect what to see, because things could be the same like the other prisons we have encountered at , but

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