Va. (WJHL) – Authorities are searching for two missing inmates that reportedly escaped the recreational yard of a Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority facility near Abingdon Thursday ...

was the second of three original regional jail facilities to open in Southwest Virginia. The first opened in early 2005 in Abingdon, and the third opened in Duffield shortly after Haysi’s opening.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA - Two people have died by hanging in Abingdon's regional jail ... So it's been since 2011," says Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority Superintendent Stephen Clear.

ABINGDON, Va. — Two inmates who ... of Abingdon, Virginia, escaped from a recreational yard at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

Johnny Shane Brown, of Rogersville, Tennessee, and Albert Lee Ricketson, of Abingdon, Virginia, both escaped the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon, Virginia, from a ...

ABINGDON, Va. — The Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority violated a nonprofit’s due process rights when it blocked prisoners from accessing books and magazines sent by the organization ...