CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A former lieutenant within West Virginia’s regional jail system has been sentenced to prison for his role in the deadly beating of an inmate, federal prosecutors said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The former supervisor of corrections officers at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail will be sentenced on Thursday. Chad Lester, 35, was a Lieutenant in the Southern ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former supervisor at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for covering up the 2022 beating death of jail inmate Quantez Burks.

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A former Southern Regional Jail Corrections Officer was sentenced to several years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to his involvement in an assault that led to ...

beckley – A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in covering up the 2022 beating death of inmate Quantez Burks. Chad Lester ...

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 ...

Prisoners at Hampton Roads Regional Jail were subjected to medical and mental health care so bad that it violated their constitutional rights in a facility where officials didn’t fix problems ...

A former supervisor of the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for covering up an assault by correctional officers three years ago that led ...

Rappahnnock Regional Jail Superintendent Kevin Hudson said in October that DOC is accepting jail inmates with “a sentence of one year or more,” but that the transfer process is slow ...

FILE - The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., is seen in this undated photo. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia ...

A Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail inmate died by suicide in his cell earlier this week, according to the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office. David W. Jones Jr., 39, was found unresponsive Tuesday ...