Steven Nicholas Wimmer, a former corrections officer at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, received a sentence ...

A federal grand jury Thursday charged six former corrections officers in the 2022 fatal assault of a West Virginia prison inmate. They were also charged ... the defendants at the Southern Regional ...

A 37-year-old New River Valley Regional Jail inmate died last week of an apparent suicide, according to jail interim Superintendent Charlie Poff. Michael Amos, of Henry County, was found hanging ...

Shawn Christopher Berry, 37, was an inmate at the Central Virginia Regional Jail when he died Aug. 9. The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled Berry’s death an accident and ...

Staff at Riverside Regional Jail failed to keep close enough watch on an inmate who committed suicide and an officer then falsified the logbook, and proper emergency supplies were unavailable to ...

The superintendent oversees a facility with a staff of about 200 and an average daily inmate population of about 850. The regional jail, located in Roanoke County, serves Franklin County ...

The truck driver that was arrested for causing a fatal accident in Cheat Lake appears to be extradited back to West Virginia ...