A former correctional officer at the Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for ...

Four more former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the death ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that ...

The former officers, who brutally beat a 37-year-old man, received prison terms ranging from three years to more than two decades.

The U.S. Justice Department is recommending an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid should serve no prison time. Brett Hankison is the ...

The exhibit Billy Foster, the Outlaw Artist was installed this week at the Beckley Art Center, which features Foster's work, many of which he created while incarcerated at ...

Prison officials say breakdowns with the water provider have left them with no service for the time being ...

Two more former correctional officers have been sentenced for their roles in the 2022 death of an inmate at Southern Regional ...

Prison policy advocates are urging West Virginia lawmakers to put an end to "prison gerrymandering," which they said distorts political representation in districts with correctional facilities ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

How West Virginia is Pulling Pollution, and Rare Earths, Out of Its Streams Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange.