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Rainbow Pride of WV's Pride Parade and Festival took place on June 7, 2025, at Slack Plaza in Charleston, West Virginia.
GLENVILLE, W.Va (WDTV) - Staffing concerns continue to be a persistent issue at federal correctional facilities in West Virginia ... or security — at FCI Gilmer are now being required to ...
The head of West Virginia’s state corrections system, long plagued by overcrowding and inmate deaths, has been tapped to lead the agency that manages federal prisons beset by similar issues.
A Lincoln teenager Thursday was sentenced to 40 to 60 years in prison on a second-degree murder charge for stabbing her father to death in 2022. Sallie Gilmer, who pleaded guilty to killing her ...
An East Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after police found black tar heroin in a tin can buried in his backyard. Visit this article to learn more ...
UPSHUR COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — An East Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after police found ... a search warrant was conducted by the Gilmer Police Department at Griffin ...
Thursday afternoon, Xerxes Wilson of the Delaware News Journal reported that former West Virginia running back ... in up to a maximum of 50 years in prison. Federal prosecutors allege that the ...
GILMER — Prison inmates might have a chance to restore the same kind of furniture that they, their lawyers, jurors and judges sat on when the inmates were sentenced to prison. Upshur County ...
Kevin Flythe, 52, was released from the FCI Gilmer prison in Glennville, WV on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, according to his family's attorney, Claire Madill. Flythe was resentenced to time-served on Jan.
(WBOY) — An inmate who is accused of injuring four correctional officers in Gilmer County during an altercation was indicted on Wednesday. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...
Eleven federal inmates in the Northern District of West Virginia were sentenced ... and Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Gilmer. Court documents state the type of drugs being smuggled ...
Eleven inmates across three West Virginia prisons have received additional sentences for their involvement in smuggling or attempting to smuggle drugs. The inmates were caught trying to smuggle drugs ...