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An inmate at a West Virginia jail scrutinized in lawsuits citing inmate deaths and alleging poor living conditions was pronounced dead Friday morning, officials said. Correctional officers at ...
Coy stated he believed Hill was a burglar, but he was actually a guest of the homeowner. Coy was convicted of murder in 2024. [23] 22 November 2020: Rebecca Hillman 14 March 2023: New York City Department of Correction (New York) At the Manhattan Detention Complex, jail Captain Hillman was on-duty when inmate Ryan Wilson attempted suicide ...
June 9 – Seminole County jail fire in Sanford, Florida, killed 11. [95] July 7 – Pomona Hotel fire in Portland, Oregon. Act of arson, killed 12. August 17 – Philadelphia Refinery Fire, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killed eight firemen. August 17 – Savoy Hotel fire, in Sydney, Australia, killed 15 and injured 25.
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 regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails. [4]
Five former correctional officers in West Virginia were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday in connection with the 2022 death of an incarcerated man who was beaten while handcuffed and ...
Two West Virginia corrections officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from the fatal beating of an inmate in a case that has brought scrutiny to conditions and ...
A life-threatening situation unfolded across portions of West Virginia on Thursday morning as powerful thunderstorms moved across the region, leading to numerous reports of flooding, high-water ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.