BEAVER, W.Va. — An inmate at the Southern Regional Jail died Friday morning. The state Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation said a 24-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell.

A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate. According to a ...

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 ...

The family of Quantez Burks, an man who died after being assaulted by multiple correctional officers at Southern Regional ...

A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced Monday for failing to intervene when other officers ...

A West Virginia corrections officer who pleaded guilty on charges related to the assault and death of an inmate at Southern ...

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.

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A corrections officer from the South-Central Regional Jail has been arrested, according to a spokesperson for West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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.