CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — WASHINGTON – A former corrections officer from the Southern Regional Jail in ... 37-year-old Quantez Burks of Beckley, who died at the jail on March 1, 2022, after ...

Troubling patterns across the Riverside County jail system put detainees at risk. By Christopher Damien She was 21. She had crossed America on a road trip and was excited about staying in California.

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.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia inmate ...

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 ...

An inmate at the Southern Regional ... rushed to Beckley ARH where life saving measures were unsuccessful and she died. The death is now under investigation by the West Virginia State Police ...

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 ...

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 ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Earlier this month, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who ...

(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 ...