Phone outages make a mess – especially for courts, inmates in southern West Virginia

By By Josephine E. Moore The Register-Herald

BECKLEY, W.Va. — A man at Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County had to wait in prison an additional three days after making bail because the phone and fax lines at the Raleigh County Courthouse were down.

“I bonded a guy last Monday, and it took until Thursday to let him out of jail,” said Gary Vaughan, a bail bondsman with 1st Action Bail Bonds in Beckley.

“(The courthouse)…