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August 1, 2025

WV Center on Budget and Policy Introduces The Quantez Burks Report

WOAY – In West Virginia, the name Quantez Burks has become a symbol of a more profound crisis within the state’s jail and prison system. 

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Burks died in 2022 after being assaulted while handcuffed by state employees at Southern Regional Jail.

Though the state initially claimed he died of natural causes, a medical examiner ruled it a homicide.  

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