CHARLESTON — The federal government has secured guilty verdicts for what it says is the final former West Virginia correctional officer convicted in connection with a fatal 2022 assault of an inmate ...

Two West Virginia corrections officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from the fatal beating of an inmate in a case that has brought scrutiny to conditions and deaths ...

Authorities are continuing the search for an inmate who ran off from a work release detail at the Mountain State Forest Festival office in Randolph County. “We’re just following leads at this point,” ...

A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for covering up an assault that led to the death of inmate Quentez Burks in 2022. Burks ...

NORFOLK-- The Norfolk Sheriff's Office has debuted a new website, which includes a new "Inmate Lookup" tool. You can find incarceration information and mug shots for all inmates currently housed in ...

Four more former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the death of an inmate in 2022. Quantez Burks, identified in Justice Department news ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — An inmate escaped custody on the West Virginia Turnpike Wednesday and is on the run. Paul Ira Hopkins, 37, of Smithers escaped from a prison transport van carrying four other ...