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

A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the previous administration of former governor Jim Justice was dismissed by a federal ...