Despite spending billions of taxpayer dollars on incarceration, many states continue to struggle with high recidivism rates.
State officials say Salem Correctional Center is working to address air conditioning maintenance issues in parts of the ...
CHARLESTON — A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the previous administration of former governor Jim Justice was dismissed ...
CHARLESTON – Testing for the coronavirus in West Virginia jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities since the outbreak at the Huttonsville Correctional Facility in Randolph County began Tuesday, the ...
A former correctional officer in southern West Virginia, Mark Holdren, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a US federal civil rights violation in the death of an inmate. The inmate, Quantez Burks, had died ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Mark Holdren, ...