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Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 42,425. [ 1 ]
On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. [3]The Eastern Regional Jail in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections is a state agency of the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet that operates state-owned adult correctional facilities and provides oversight for and sets standards for county jails. They also provide training, community based services, and oversees the state's Probation & Parole Division.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 596 square miles (1,540 km 2), of which 587 square miles (1,520 km 2) is land and 9.0 square miles (23 km 2) (1.5%) is water. [6] It is the fifth-largest county by area in Kentucky. Ohio County is part of the Western Coal Field region of Kentucky. Much of Ohio County ...
In 2022, Vanover's family sued the jail, along with jail and county officials, alleging wrongful death and emotional distress to the woman’s young daughter, who was orphaned after Vanover died.
It was founded in 1892 as a weekly by Wat Warren, [4] as a Republican weekly. By 1920, it had a circulation of 700 and was published by Hunter W. Brannon. [5]In 1971, it was bought (along with sister publication the Democrat) by two New York executives—one a banker and one an editor of a sporting magazine—looking to escape city life and settle in small-town West Virginia. [6]
Kentucky State Police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a youth inside a females-only unit in the juvenile detention center where a riot took place late Friday, state officials have ...
Glenville as viewed from Court Street in 2006 The Gilmer County Courthouse in Glenville. Glenville is a town in and the county seat of Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, [5] along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 1,128 at the 2020 census. [2] It is the home of Glenville State University.