A former West Virginia supervisory correctional officer was sentenced for conspiracy and obstruction crimes. According to a press release from the United States ...

A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in covering up the 2022 ...

A federal judge has sentenced a former West Virginia state corrections officer to 17.5 years in prison for what a Charleston ...

beckley – A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in covering up the 2022 beating death of inmate Quantez Burks. Chad Lester ...

Chad Lester, 35, a former lieutenant at the jail, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin after being ...

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

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A former lieutenant within West Virginia’s regional jail system has been sentenced to prison for his role in the deadly beating of an inmate, federal prosecutors said.

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 judge has approved a final settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleging a man died in 2022 following incarceration at a state jail marked by brutal acts of violence from other inmates as well as ...

Former Lt. Chad Lester was convicted in January of three felony obstruction of justice charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks. Burks, 37 ...