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A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced Monday for failing to intervene when other officers ...
A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate. According to a ...
West Virginia. The federal sentencing was set for January 3rd, but was delayed. “What led to the altercation between these two inmates I’m not certain,” said State Regional Jail Authority ...
The Register-Herald reports the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security denied its request to tour the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County citing a federal probe of the facility.
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against a West Virginia jail on behalf of ... filed last week about conditions at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver references a lack of access to ...
The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Earlier this month, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who ...
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 ...
a 48-year-old pretrial detainee who died at the North Central Regional Jail in September 2023. Getty Images/iStockphoto A man detained at a West Virginia jail died within hours of booking ...