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 ...

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 supervisory correctional officer was sentenced for conspiracy and obstruction crimes. According to a press release from the United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers three years ago that ...

Two West Virginia jail employees have been fired ... Cole is being housed at Southwestern Regional Jail and a $100,000 bond has been set. Cole was also taken to SWRJ, but has been released on ...

Judge Dismisses Federal Lawsuit Over West Virginia ... 2023 by inmates at the maximum-security Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County and the Southwestern Regional Jail in Logan ...

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 ...

Former West Virginia Jail Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation in Fatal Assault on Inmate CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former correctional officer in southern West Virginia pleaded ...