Five former correctional ... jail on a wanton endangerment charge in March 2022. The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Earlier this month, West ...

A former West Virginia supervisory correctional officer was sentenced for conspiracy and obstruction crimes. According to a ...

Mark Holdren, Corey Snyder, and Jonathan Walters, all former correctional officers, pleaded guilty in November 2024, to using unreasonable force against Q.B. resulting in his death. They will be ...

Chad Lester, 35, was a Lieutenant in the Southern Regional Jail when inmate Quantez Burks, 37, was beaten to death by officers in an interview room on March 1, 2022. The room reportedly had no cameras ...

A former West Virginia jail supervisor has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup ...

A former lieutenant within West Virginia’s regional jail system has been sentenced to prison for his role in the deadly beating of an inmate, federal prosecutor ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WTAP) -Chad Lester, a former Lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was ...

A judge has approved a final settlement of a federal lawsuit that alleging a man died in 2022 following incarceration at a ...

B ECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A former Southern Regional Jail correctional officer intends to plead guilty, and faces up to 30 years in prison, in connection to the death of Quantez Burks according to ...

A federal judge has sentenced a former West Virginia state corrections officer to 17.5 years in prison for what a Charleston ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has been convicted in connection to the fatal assault of an inmate in the Southern Regional Jail. According to documents filed in federal court ...

A former corrections officer at the Southern Regional Jail (SRJ) has been sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate. 25-year-old Steven Nicholas Wimmer of Bluefield will serve nine years in ...