Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault ...

Two former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers will spend the next two decades behind bars themselves for their ...

A Wheeling man has pleaded guilty to his role in a multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy involving significant quantities ...

Justice declared his second state of emergency for correctional vacancies in August 2022. At one point, the statewide vacancy rate for correctional officers was more than 30%, with some individual ...

The indictments in West Virginia's southern U.S. District Court come weeks after two different West Virginia corrections officers pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia lawmakers received an update Tuesday on conditions at the state's correctional centers that have drawn intense scrutiny over the last several years ...

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with problems of its own.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia prison inmate whose infant daughter has been missing for more than two years has been indicted on murder and other charges, authorities said.A grand jury in ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia’s toughest prison is on lockdown after four inmates became ill after ingesting a common personal hygiene or household item, officials said.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force West Virginia to spend $330 million to improve prison and jail conditions statewide and fill worker vacancies. U.S. District Judge ...