Law enforcement and corrections officers from across the nation will soon converge on the former West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville for the 16th annual Mock Prison Riot.
 
This year, the state Division of Corrections is sponsoring the tactical training event, which starts Saturday. It includes demonstrations, certifications workshops, skills competition and opportunities to see new technology.

The mock riot was run in recent years by the High Technology Consortium Foundation, but federal funding for the program was cut.
 
The Gothic 1860s prison housed inmates for 130 years until the state Supreme Court declared it uninhabitable in 1995 and ordered it closed.
 
Moundsville was the site of a real riot in 1986. Fifteen corrections officers were taken hostage as inmates left their cells for dinner. Three inmates died.