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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Six employees at the Southern Regional Jail in Beckley have been indicted in connection with the assault and death of an inmate in 2022. Mark Holdren, 39; Cory Snyder ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WCHS) — The family of an inmate who died inside the Southern Regional Jail spoke with Eyewitness News after two former corrections officers received federal charges in connection ...
A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in covering up the 2022 ...
An inmate at the Southern Regional Jail has died. The state Department ... She was immediately rushed to Beckley ARH where life saving measures were unsuccessful and she died.
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS ... mother testified Cochran had not received heart medication regularly at Southern Regional Jail until Sen. Rollan Roberts, a state lawmaker from Raleigh County, had ...
(WVVA) - Another former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer ... which resulted in his death. The inmate was identified as Quantez Burks of Beckley. He had been in jail for less than 24 ...
27—BECKLEY — Under-cooked or rotten ... Defendants have been subjected inmates housed at SRJ (Southern Regional Jail), including Plaintiffs, to inhumane living conditions and deprived them ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA/Gray News ... Burks was the fourth of 12 inmates to die at Southern Regional Jail in 2022.
Jim Justice ordered an investigation of conditions at the Southern Regional Jail in March 2022 after allegations surfaced of water deprivation, failure to provide toilet paper and inmates having ...
Gov. Jim Justice signs bills in August providing pay raises and pay rate increases for correctional officers at the Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center in Mt. Hope. (Photo courtesy of the WV Governor’s ...