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Mark Holdren, Corey Snyder, and Jonathan Walters, all former correctional officers, pleaded guilty in November 2024, to using ...
“I have full confidence in Southern Regional Jail Superintendent John Frame, and in our director of the West Virginia Division ... maintenance for correctional facilities from some of the ...
A judge has approved a final settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleging a man died in 2022 following incarceration at a ...
A former Southern Regional Jail Corrections Officer was sentenced to several years in prison on Thursday after pleading ...
B ECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A former Southern Regional Jail correctional officer intends to plead guilty, and faces up to 30 years in prison, in connection to the death of Quantez Burks according to ...
A former corrections officer at the Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) has been sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate ...
A former West Virginia regional jail corrections officer has been sentenced to prison for his role in an assault that ...
A former lieutenant at Southern Regional Jail has been found ... for the Southern District of West Virginia. In November 2023, Lester, along with five former correctional officers – Mark Holdren ...
The class action lawsuit filed Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against ... Commission on the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority on ...
The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead the agency that manages federal prisons beset by similar issues.