West Virginia's regional jails have a higher death rate than the national average, with most of those who died being pretrial detainees and over half of these deaths occurring within the first 30 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of ...

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate.

Police in West Virginia are searching for an inmate who disguised himself as a civilian and walked out of a jail, giving himself at least a 36-hour head start.

A Pontiac man is held in a West Virginia jail, accused in a stabbing Wednesday morning. Fikara Fultz, 27, faces a felony charge of malicious or unlawful assault for the April 30 incident. He’s ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-jail supervisor in West Virginia was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of an assault by other corrections ...

A former West Virginia jail supervisor has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of an assault by other corrections officers that led to an inmate's death.