BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A former nurse who worked at Southern Regional Jail alleged she witnessed a correctional officer striking a handcuffed inmate inside the jail’s medical center in 2019.

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — WASHINGTON – A former corrections officer from the Southern Regional Jail in ... 37-year-old Quantez Burks of Beckley, who died at the jail on March 1, 2022, after ...

Two former West Virginia corrections officers have pleaded ... for the beating at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver on March 1, 2022, according to the Justice Department. Two officers, the ...

The two Beckley men charged with arson in connection with the fire that destroyed the former home of West Virginia Gov. Hulett C. Smith were correctional officers at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver.

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Four of eight Southern Regional Jail guards charged in the beating death of 37-year-old Quantez Burks at the jail on March 1, 2022, are still employees of the jail, according to ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia inmate accused of killing his cellmate during an attack at Southern Regional Jail has entered a plea agreement. Lucas Matthew Wagnar, 29, entered a Kennedy ...

the Southern Regional Jail — which serves Mercer County — is now fully staffed. Justice said during his weekly administrative brief that there was new staffing for West Virginia correctional ...

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 agreed this year to pay $4 million to settle a class ...