RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A man was arrested for allegedly setting fires near the Richmond city jail on Sunday. On May 4, officers with Richmond Police and Richmond Fire responded to reports of a brush ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man has been charged with murder in connection to a deadly shooting in the Richmond Justice Center’s parking lot and was identified by police as a person of interest ...

RICHMOND, Va. — An inmate at the Richmond City Jail died Sunday night, according to the Sheriff's Office. The cause of death has yet to be determined by the Medical Examiner. The Sheriff's Office said ...

Two months after Richmond officials led a media tour of what they billed as a nearly complete new city jail, the $134 million structure is finally on the verge of opening. Crews this week are ...

The Richmond City Jail has set up a new mental-health unit as part of a reshuffle that also doubled the size of its school and addiction-recovery programs. The new unit will make it easier to launch ...

WVTF had a story this morning during the Virginia news segment about Sen. Jim Webb's push to reform the American judicial system. We've supported his efforts on this. Things got a little weird at the ...

Archaeologists excavated the jail had to cope with groundwater that filled trenches as fast as they were dug. C. David M Doody / Courtesy Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission Archaeologists ...

Four people have been arrested for trying to smuggle illegal drugs into Richmond City Jail. Sheriff C.T. Woody said today that two inmates, Paul Cosby, 42, and Michael Hicks, 25, had conspired with ...