An inmate and a visitor are facing several drug-related charges after trying to smuggle drugs into the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail in May, according to Jail Superintendent Colonel Ray Witham.

Twelve people died in Riverside Regional Jail from 2022 through 2024, the largest total of all local jails in Virginia during that period, according to a state review.

A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail was sentenced Monday for his role in the 2022 death of an inmate.Andrew Fleshman, 22, was sentenced to e ...

An agreement signed Thursday between Riverside Regional Jail and the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails will remain in effect for at least two years and aims to correct deficiencies in ...

In 2017, the Virginia General Assembly and then-governor Terry McAuliffe granted new powers to the board after the death of Jamycheal Mitchell in the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in 2015.

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility.

Bertie-Martin Regional Jail Commissioner David Ray expressed his appreciation to the commissioners for appointing him to the board Monday evening.

On June 17, West Virginia DHS says 43-year old inmate Alana Saul was found unresponsive and died later that evening, also at South Central Regional Jail in Charleston.

Gregory Winston has been hired as superintendent of the New River Valley Regional Jail. Winston, who has been assistant chief deputy of the Roanoke Sheriff’s Office, will take charge at the ...