Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association present the Weatherford Awards. They honor books about the Appalachian ...

The Virginia ... The facility in Prince George is governed by a regional authority consisting of representatives from each locality. In April, the Riverside Jail Authority immediately took issue ...

The deputy superintendent of the Western Virginia ... facility, and had been serving as interim superintendent since the retirement of Col. Bobby Russell in March. On Friday, the regional jail ...

(AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to ... charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks. Advertisement Article ...

In November 2023, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at the jail as inhumane. The lawsuit cited such complaints as a lack ...

ORLANDO – The No. 17 West Virginia Mountaineers (37-5, 16-3) captured their 14th straight Big 12 Conference win after sweeping the UCF Knights (23-20, 6-15) Sunday afternoon with a 4-3 decision.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two staff members at a northern West Virginia long-term care facility have been charged in the death of a patient who was left in a scalding hot bathtub a year ago ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A corrections officer from the South-Central Regional Jail has been arrested, according to a spokesperson for West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

(WCHS) — A correctional officer at the South Central Regional ... trooper from the West Virginia State Police received a call regarding a sexual assault complaint at the jail, which is located ...

(WCHS) — Police responded to a stabbing at South Central Regional Jail on Monday. Kanawha County dispatchers said an inmate was stabbed just before 10 p.m. A spokesperson for the West Virginia ...

Burks was a pretrial detainee who died less than a day after he was booked into the Southern Regional Jail. The state of West Virginia also ... water and food at the facility, as well as ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Earlier this month, West Virginia agreed ... to water and food at the facility, as well as overcrowding and ...