The Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority ... of three original regional jail facilities to open in Southwest Virginia. The first opened in early 2005 in Abingdon, and the third opened ...

ABINGDON, Va. — The Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority violated a nonprofit ... The Human Rights Defense Center is a prisoners’ rights organization that regularly distributes reading ...

they’ve been transferred to the Abingdon facility within the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority. The closure took immediate effect on July 1. All inmates have already been transferred ...

(WJHL) – Authorities are searching for two missing inmates that reportedly escaped the recreational yard of a Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority facility near Abingdon Thursday afternoon.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, VA - Two people have died by hanging in Abingdon's regional jail ... So it's been since 2011," says Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority Superintendent Stephen Clear.

Officers apprehended Johnny Shane Brown and Albert Lee Ricketson on Friday in Rogersville, Tennessee, after the pair escaped from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon a day ...

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says the two inmates escaped Thursday afternoon from a recreational yard at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon. On Friday ...