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Agents of the Halifax Regional Drug and Gang Task Force and a member of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Community Action ...
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 ...
(The Center Square) - Spokane County is preparing to establish a regional task force over the coming weeks to develop a tax proposal to fund a new jail after the last push fell short in 2023.
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — The Roanoke County Police Department is investigating after an inmate died early Friday at the Western Virginia Regional Jail. Medical and security staff at the jail ...
A $625,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, its medical provider and a number of staff members was approved in federal court Tuesday. The suit was ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A correctional officer at the South Central Regional Jail is accused of having sexual contact with an inmate on more than one occasion. Stephen Anthony Elswick ...
A lieutenant at Western Tidewater Regional Jail has ... arrested on July 27. The arrest happened around 2 a.m. in the 2400 block of Godwin Blvd. According to the jail's director of administration ...
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - An inmate was found dead in her cell at Western Virginia Regional Jail Friday, July 12 at 9:59 a.m. Holly Pugh was taken to the Western Virginia Regional Jail Tuesday ...
PORTSMOUTH — A fire at the Portsmouth City Jail last week forced more than 150 inmates and staff to move to the Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where city officials hope they will remain during the ...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Portsmouth jail is now empty. Over 150 men and women Portsmouth inmates are now at the former Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Portsmouth Sheriff Michael Moore confirmed.
A bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers, former inmates, and inmates' family members are putting pressure on the governing board that oversees Riverside Regional Jail to find a new leader who can ...
He died in Riverside Regional Jail eight months later of an overdose of cocaine and fentanyl, she said. He was due to be released from the Prince George County facility in three weeks. When jail ...