Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is ...

Daryl Smith, 50, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for the distribution of cocaine base.

Alabama's governor on Friday commuted a death row inmate's sentence to life in prison, saying there are questions about the ...

West Virginia temporarily deployed its contingent ... yet to stand down a contingent of 300 National Guardsmen in its state prisons. Last December, the nonpartisan Prison Policy Initiative ...

Recruitment and retention pay that has been used to address severe staff shortages at federal prisons across the country is ...

A Colliers man Thursday pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse by custodian and was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Shaine Black, 26, of Colliers entered the plea before 1st Judicial ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia pharmacist already serving a federal prison sentence in a fraud case was convicted Wednesday in state court in the killing of her husband. A jury found ...

A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective ...

RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers advanced a bipartisan prison education reform bill, but Senate revisions altered its original scope. Del. Betsy B. Carr, D-Richmond, introduced House Bill 2158 ...

Some state prisons have been “left unguarded” during an unsanctioned correction officer strike, jeopardizing the safety of ...