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 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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Two inmates have been found dead in less than a week at a West Virginia jail. The West Virginia ...

Two people have died at South Central Regional Jail in the past week of June 2025. Darrell Wayne Crowder and Alana Beth Saul ...

An agreement signed Thursday between Riverside Regional Jail and the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails will remain in effect for at least two years and aims to correct deficiencies in ...

The Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails voted Wednesday to approve an agreement with the governing body of Riverside Regional Jail that would avert decertification of the facility and allow ...

Steven Nicholas Wimmer, a former corrections officer at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, received a sentence of nine years in prison followed by three years of probation for his ...

The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail soon will be its own fiscal agent, likely paving the way for cost savings in the near future. The push for the jail to become its own fiscal agent ...

Kumer, 41, was selected as the new superintendent of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in April. He served as interim superintendent starting in January, after Col. Ronald Matthews ...

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.