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Pruntytown inmates adapt to life at former boys home
At Pruntytown, now a state corrections facility, 60 inmates live with limited freedoms and earn wages on road crews and a 900 acre farm. Men with histories of murder and rape describe a better environment than the old state boys home, while operations support Taylor County budgets.
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Pruntytown
West Virginia
State Industrial School
Fred Rusmisell
State Department of Corrections
Moundsville
Taylor County
Industrial School
Jay Rockefeller
David George
Logan
Rusmisell