Alderson News

Martha Stewart says, after spending five months in a federal prison in Monroe County in 2005, she left West Virginia with no plans to ever come back.

On this day, April 30, in 1927, the first three prisoners entered the first federal prison for women in Alderson, W.Va. The Federal Industrial Institution for Women was opened officially in 1928 to reform the wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters who harbored the gangsters from the Prohibition era.

The return to a federal women's prison camp in Alderson, W. Va., ended an unexplained two-week stay at a city jail in Roanoke, Va.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has transferred former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers to a jail in Virginia.

ALDERSON, W.Va. - Authorities in West Virginia say they've found a fugitive that escaped from a Colorado correctional facility.