An inmate at a ... Division and the West Virginia State Police have opened an investigation into the death. Several former correctional officers with Southern Regional Jail were indicted last ...

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. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal ...

ORIGINAL STORY: Law enforcement in Eastern Kentucky are searching for an escaped inmate who is considered dangerous and may be in West Virginia ... department said. A jail jumpsuit and several ...

returned an indictment today charging five former correctional officers in connection with an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate at the Southern Regional Jail. A conviction could ...

“The only involvement the Fayette County Commission has with the operation of the Southern Regional Jail is monitoring of and payment of the cost for housing inmates. The West Virginia Division ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at ...

(AP) — A former West Virginia correctional officer ... less than a day after being booked into a jail. Quantez Burks was booked into the Southern Regional Jail on a wanton endangerment charge ...

(AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday ... related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks.

Former West Virginia Jail Officers Plead Guilty to Civil Rights Violation in Fatal Assault on Inmate CHARLESTON ... Burks as retaliation at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver.

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who ...