Tara Wolfe attended the protest on behalf of her son, Shawn Boyd. She said she wants the jail to come out of lockdown status so inmates can have recreation time and more opportunities to talk with ...

According to the Virginia ACLU, 41 of Virginia’s 59 jails spent no money at all on inmate programs in fiscal year 2020, which began July 1, 2019 and ended June 30, 2020. The Rappahannock ...

ABINGDON — An inmate has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for beating and pepper-spraying a correctional officer while being held at the Western Virginia Regional Jail in Roanoke County.

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...