Video depositions obtained by Eyewitness News show how former top jail administrators under West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice have struggled to deal with dire conditions in the state’s correctional facilities. The depositions are being used as evidence in a federal injunction that claims mounting repair needs of the facilities, estimated at more than $200 million and an alarming number of correctional officer shortages were ignored over the years by the governor and legislature. Today, attorneys representing current and former Southern Regional Jail inmates are going before a federal magistrate to argue that the state has been destroying evidence in their separate, ongoing investigation as part of a class-action lawsuit into the facility that saw 13 inmates die in 2022.