An inmate at a ... Division and the West Virginia State Police have opened an investigation into the death. Several former correctional officers with Southern Regional Jail were indicted last ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia inmate accused of killing his cellmate during an attack at Southern Regional Jail has entered a plea agreement. Lucas Matthew Wagnar, 29, entered a Kennedy ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at ...

ORIGINAL STORY: Law enforcement in Eastern Kentucky are searching for an escaped inmate who is considered dangerous and may be in West Virginia ... department said. A jail jumpsuit and several ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal ...

Chad Lester, 35, was a Lieutenant in the Southern Regional Jail when inmate Quantez Burks, 37, was beaten to death by officers in an interview room on March 1, 2022. The room reportedly had no cameras ...

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers three years ago that ...

West Virginia Corrections Officers Plead Guilty to Not Intervening as Colleagues Fatally Beat Inmate CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia correctional officers accused of failing to ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who ...

(AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday ... related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks.

(AP) — A former West Virginia correctional officer ... less than a day after being booked into a jail. Quantez Burks was booked into the Southern Regional Jail on a wanton endangerment charge ...