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.

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 ...

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

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 bill that would require a mandatory three-year sentence for drug possession was introduced into the West Virginia ...

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 ...

An inmate died in a New York prison as guards at institutions across the state continue their strike, which is now in its second week. Jonathon Grant, 61, died over the weekend at one of the ...