Betsy Jividen, the former DCR commission; Michael Francis, the former superintendent for SRJ; and Larry Warden, the former ... loss of hours of video from the jail because New didn't provide ...

a federal magistrate has recommended default judgment in the ongoing class-action lawsuit involving allegations of inhumane and unconstitutional conditions at the Southern Regional Jail.

BEAVER, W.Va. — An inmate at the Southern Regional Jail died Friday morning. The state Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation said a 24-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell.

Volk scheduled a status conference for Thursday. The lawsuit filed last year on behalf of current and former inmates of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver referenced a lack of access to water ...

but New said he is not sure who is in charge at the Southern Regional Jail as the previous warden retired "two days after we sent our notice that we were suing." New said he and the other ...