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 ...

A former lieutenant at Southern Regional Jail has been found guilty on charges connected to the deadly assault of an inmate, prosecutors said. Chad Lester, 35, of Odd, West Virginia, was found ...

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 ...

Burks was a pretrial detainee at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver who died less than a day after he was booked into the jail on a wanton endangerment charge in March 2022. The case has drawn ...

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 ...

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.

Prosecutors have asked a federal court to set plea hearings for two corrections officers on a conspiracy charge stemming from an assault on a jail inmate who later died. Assistant U.S. Attorney ...

A Wyoming County man died this weekend while incarcerated at Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County, making him the fifth reported inmate in a year’s time to die while imprisoned at the jail.

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 ...

Gov. Jim Justice signs bills in August providing pay raises and pay rate increases for correctional officers at the Gene Spadaro Juvenile Center in Mt. Hope. (Photo courtesy of the WV Governor’s ...