The Virginia State Police are investigating ... She visited him weekly until he was transferred to Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth. After that, they exchanged letters once or twice ...

after being released from a Virginia county jail. Officers with ICE, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security team, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and Virginia State Police ...

Inmates died nearly nine times more often in custody at Hampton Roads Regional Jail than at other local or regional jails in Virginia during ... been locked up at the Portsmouth-based jail have ...

Virginia lawmakers have until Thursday to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the budget. Currently, two proposals have about a $105 million discrepancy in general fund spending. This is the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Portsmouth jail is now empty. Over 150 men and women Portsmouth inmates are now at the former Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Portsmouth Sheriff Michael Moore confirmed.

Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News and Portsmouth were among the cities that voted Tuesday night.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The regional jail that has served five cities for 25 years has officially closed. Staffing challenges and decreased inmate population are the reasons behind the Hampton Roads ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — After 25 years, the Hampton Roads Regional Jail (HRRJ) that five local cities once relied on is set to close by April 1, 2024. In 1998, leaders of Hampton, Newport News ...

The board that oversees Hampton Roads Regional Jail voted Wednesday ... There has been some discussion to convert the regional jail into a new Portsmouth City Jail to replace an aging waterfront ...

PORTSMOUTH — After indications that the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority planned to announce the lockup’s closure sometime in September, the board’s lone meeting for the month came and ...

The Hampton ... Roads Regional Jail,” the committee said. The jail has been under scrutiny since the death of inmate Jamycheal Mitchell in 2015 who stole about $5 worth of snacks from a ...

The state agency that oversees jails wants to shut down Hampton Roads Regional Jail ... Citing the DOJ report, Portsmouth hasn’t sent inmates to the regional jail since early 2019.