Inside Kanawha County’s ceremonial courtroom Thursday, a family was awarded for their courage to stand up against the justice ...

A Western Regional Jail (WRJ) inmate was arrested after an altercation resulted in the death of another inmate.

BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — West Virginia State Police are continuing to investigate an incident between two inmates that took ...

A man in Clay County was arrested on charges of arson after allegedly setting fire to the “old Hartland” church ...

The 2022 death of a man inside Southern Regional Jail due to assault from corrections workers has spurred a new data reporting system in West Virginia.

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) — A former correctional officer in ...

(AP) — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades ... was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the March 2022 attack in the Southern Regional Jail, according to a press ...

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) — Two more former correctional officers ...

More than half of the opioid settlement dollars spent by localities across West Virginia last fiscal year went to law ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of an assault by other corrections ...

The case has drawn scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the Southern Regional Jail. Last year, West Virginia agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who ...