BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A Beckley attorney who shined a national spotlight on conditions inside West Virginia jails said on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, that he believes conditions such as overcrowding and ...

Costs from allegations of inhumane conditions at a state-run jail in Raleigh County are mounting for West Virginia. A federal court has approved a $4 million-plus settlement of a class-action lawsuit ...

FILE - The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., is seen in this undated photo. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald via AP, File) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was ...

CHARLESTON — Three West Virginia jails holding some of the country’s immigrant detainees are over capacity. Data from the state’s corrections division — shared Tuesday with state lawmakers — showed ...

Three West Virginia jails are being used to house immigrant detainees in a deal that has made the state’s corrections division more than $333,000 so far this year. During President Donald Trump’s mass ...

The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is facing a lawsuit over the death of Nathan Jonah Kennedy, a 48-year-old pretrial detainee who died at the North Central Regional Jail in ...

A man detained at a West Virginia jail died within hours of booking, according to a recently filed lawsuit, which accuses correctional officers of killing him through their use of excessive force and ...