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 ...

West Virginia is making progress in addressing staffing shortages in its crowded jails and prisons, but hundreds of positions remain unfilled. David Kelly, commissioner for the state’s Division of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman has been charged with helping her son after he escaped from a West Virginia jail. Media outlets report 62-year-old Robin Helton was arraigned Monday in Kanawha ...

An inmate transferred from the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a federal facility in West Virginia earlier this year ...

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, ...