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 ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A former Southern Regional Jail Corrections Officer was sentenced to several years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to his involvement in an assault that led to ...

The deputy superintendent of the Western Virginia Regional Jail has been promoted to the top job after the retirement of his predecessor. David Cox, 55, is a 27-year veteran of law enforcement who ...

The previous day, Reese, a recovering opioid addict who had been through open-heart surgery, suffered a stroke in her cell at Northern Neck Regional Jail. More than 11 hours elapsed before she was ...

According to a press release from the United States Department of Justice, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, former Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) corrections officer, 25-year-old Steven Nicholas Wimmer, of ...

According to the Virginia ACLU, 41 of Virginia’s 59 jails spent no money at all on inmate programs in fiscal year 2020, which began July 1, 2019 and ended June 30, 2020. The Rappahannock ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail died of unknown causes Tuesday after he was found unresponsive in his cell. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death of Richard ...

He is currently being held at Southern Regional Jail on a $100,000 bond. Deputies are asking for public assistance to locate a Greenbrier County man wanted on multiple charges. Jason Roberts ...

SC Carthen III, 46, c/o Warren County Regional Jail, receiving stolen property valued at $10,000 or more, possession of a defaced firearm; $6,000 cash bond. Sheila Marie Cash, 27, c/o Warren ...

Tyler Chase Butler, 27, is now being held at Rappahannock Regional Jail on no bond. According to detectives, deputies responded to a call of an alleged attempted home burglary in progress that ...

According to the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to Hartshorn’s Mini Mart on Bolt Road in Raleigh County for a report of an attempted robbery on Friday, April 25, 2025 ...

RALEIGH COUNTY, WV (WVNS) — A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced for a federal civil rights crime for his reported involvement in the death of an inmate. According to a ...