The Stevens Correctional Center in McDowell County is now under the control of the West Virginia Division of Corrections. Legislation introduced earlier this year in the West Virginia Legislature ...

The exhibit Billy Foster, the Outlaw Artist was installed this week at the Beckley Art Center, which features Foster's work, many of which he created while incarcerated at ...

A Virginia man has pleaded guilty in a federal case that accused him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives ...

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 ...

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling ...

Quantez Burks,37, was arrested on February 28, 2022, and charged with wanton endangerment and obstructing an officer. He had been in jail for 24 hours when he was beaten by eight correctional officers ...

West Virginia will receive an estimated $980 million over the next 17 years from a global settlement of a class action ...

A Virginia task force is moving forward on a plan to build a new youth prison in Chesapeake as part of a plan to transform the state juvenile justice system, ...