The investigation of the jail, located in Portsmouth ... times more often in custody at Hampton Roads Regional Jail than at other local or regional jails in Virginia in the previous three years.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Portsmouth will soon tear down and redevelop the empty and crumbling former city jail that sits on the waterfront as part of an effort to redevelop the area, Mayor Shannon ...

State lawmakers are questioning June Jennings, Virginia's inspector general, about her office's investigation into the death of a mentally ill man in a Portsmouth jail last year.

“The Bureau of Criminal Investigation of the Virginia ... Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where the U.S. Department of Justice initiated an investigation last year. That jail, which is in ...

Ralph Northam this year during an increased focus on jails in Virginia following the 2015 death of Jamycheal Mitchell in the Hampton Roads Regional Jail ... A report by the Portsmouth Commonwealth ...

Authorities say Jerry Wayne Bright Jr., 37, died Saturday inside the Central Virginia Regional Jail in Orange after being incarcerated on Dec. 13 on charges of robbing a residence in Orange on Dec ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — A firefighter in Suffolk has been ... and that Jurnigan is being held at the Western Tidewater Regional Jail without bond. No further information is available at this time.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of an assault by other corrections ...

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 led ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West ... justice charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks. Burks, 37, was a pretrial detainee ...