A list created by the Department of Homeland Security has created wide-spread confusion around Southwest Virginia.

Officials from around the Commonwealth are responding after many localities in Virginia were listed as sanctuary ...

Some Southwest Virginia localities are listed as "sanctuary" jurisdictions by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Hampton disputes its "sanctuary jurisdiction" label by the Department of Homeland Security, claiming no matching policies.

Abingdon, Tazewell and Duffield — a town with a population of 73 people ... Abingdon sends its inmates to the Abingdon Regional Jail, which is part of the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority.

An inmate from Lexington who escaped custody by posing as his brother has been captured. Jeffrey Harrison, 43, had been on ...

The Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails voted Wednesday to approve an agreement with the governing body of Riverside Regional Jail that would avert decertification of the facility and allow ...

A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate. According to a ...

An agreement signed Thursday between Riverside Regional Jail and the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails will remain in effect for at least two years and aims to correct deficiencies in ...