United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice
The United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice is a department of the United States Virgin Islands government.
United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice | |
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Employees | 134 |
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Legal jurisdiction | United States Virgin Islands |
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Headquarters | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, US |
Agency executive | |
Parent agency | Office of the Attorney General |
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Corrections
The Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections (BOC) operates the territory's correctional facilities.[1]
The Bureau of Corrections maintains a facility in Saint Croix,[2] the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility. As of October 1, 2014, 132 sentenced prisoners and 136 non-sentenced prisoners are at Golden Grove. The bureau also maintains jails on the island of St. Thomas:[3] those in the Alexander Farrelly Criminal Justice Complex (CJC) and the Alva A. Swan Annex.[2]
As of 2016[update] the BOC does not have a specific correctional officer training program, and instead has the police department train prison guards.[1]
Corrections history
In 2014 the
Circa 2013 USVI authorities stated that they were going to improve conditions at the St. Thomas jails, but a 2015 report from David Bogard, a security analysis, stated that the level of staffing since October 2014 had deteriorated.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Corrections Officers from the Virgin Islands Attend BOP Training ." Federal Bureau of Prisons. November 2, 2016 . Retrieved on November 3, 2016.
- ^ a b "Bureau of Corrections" (Archive). United States Virgin Islands Department of Justice. Retrieved on May 19, 2010. Alternate link
- ^ Virgin Islands Daily News. October 1, 2014. Retrieved on December 9, 2015.
- Virgin Islands Daily News. March 10, 2014. Retrieved on December 9, 2015.
- Virgin Islands Daily News. July 15, 2015. Retrieved on December 9, 2015.