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Is that there is a difference between someone recommending something and someone reviewing something. And this is one of my bug bears as a book reviewer. A proper review will tell you about something fully. It isnt necessarily saying just i loved it or i hated it. Its actually telling you something about the book thats meaningful, and theres a takeaway in it. But amazon, it calls them all reviews. I wish they would call them amazon recommendations. That would be so much more accurate because tha...

New allegations have been raised in a lawsuit focused on the death of an inmate who was beaten by guards while restrained and died while in custody.

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Four of eight Southern Regional Jail guards charged in the beating death of 37-year-old Quantez Burks at the jail on March 1, 2022, are still employees of the jail, according to records released Friday, February 24, 2024, by West Virginia State Auditor’s Office under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Burks […]

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Attorneys representing the family of Quantez Burks, who died while incarcerated for a pre-trial offense at Southern Regional Jail in March of 2022, allege that the company contracted to provide medical care to inmates failed to help Burks. Later, while guards were allegedly beating him, one of the nurses is now […]

A 24-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia. The incident happened on a Friday morning. When they found him, the staff

Six more former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers are facing federal charges for an assault that led to the death of a man there last year.

Four ex-correctional officers from the Southern Regional Jail in Beckley, West Virginia, attended their arraignment in Beckley Federal Court on Tuesday and were given a trial date.

The former officers for their involvement in the death of Quantez Burks who was fatally beaten while he was handcuffed and destined in Southern Regional Jail

Five former correctional officers in West Virginia were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday in connection with the 2022 death of...

Prosecutors said the former corrections officers had made false statements to investigators after three of them assaulted Quantez Burks, 37, in March 2022.