A former Southern Regional Jail corrections officer was sentenced in connection with the death of an inmate. According to a ...

A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver was sentenced to federal prison Monday for her role in ...

A West Virginia corrections officer who pleaded guilty on charges related to the assault and death of an inmate at Southern ...

A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison Monday for her role in the 2022 beating death of inmate Quantez Burks. Kimberly ...

The Southern Regional Jail near Beckley has been the focus of criminal charges and civil lawsuits. Five former correctional officials at the jail —Mark Holdren, 39; Cory Snyder, 29; Jonathan ...

(WCHS) — Six employees at the Southern Regional Jail in Beckley have been indicted ... Mark Sorsaia, Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security issued the following statement ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (WCHS) — State officials confirmed a female inmate at Southern Regional Jail died after ... according to a statement from the West Virginia Department of Commerce.

The two Beckley men charged with arson in connection with the fire that destroyed the former home of West Virginia Gov. Hulett C. Smith were correctional officers at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver.

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A former nurse who worked at Southern Regional Jail alleged she witnessed a correctional officer striking a handcuffed inmate inside the jail’s medical center in 2019.

Burks was a pretrial detainee who died less than a day after he was booked into the Southern Regional Jail. The state of West Virginia also agreed this year to pay $4 million to settle a class ...

another federal class action lawsuit regarding conditions across West Virginia’s entire correctional system continues. Attorneys representing inmates at the Southern Regional Jail near Beckley ...