Find Southern Regional Jail Releases

Southern Regional Jail Release Paths

Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, often shortened to SRJCF, is the main regional-jail destination for people arrested in Monroe County. The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates it. The agency lists Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming among the counties served. That regional role changes where records live. The Monroe County government site is not the core source for an SRJCF booking, movement, or gate-release event.

A person can leave this facility in several ways. Bond or recognizance can return a pretrial detainee to the community while the criminal case remains open. Dismissal or time served may end the hold in one case. A sentenced person may reach discharge, begin parole or mandatory supervision, or transfer elsewhere in WVDCR. Another county, state, federal agency, or immigration authority may also assume custody. A movement record should therefore be read for both the event type and destination.

Confirm a Southern Regional Jail Release

Start at the WVDCR offender-search gateway. Choose the jail product, not the prison search. Search the person’s legal surname and reasonable variants, then compare identity details and the listed institution. Record the time of the check. WVDCR warns that public search information may not show true current location, release date, or status, so a blank result is a lead rather than a completed finding.

If the jail search no longer shows the person, check the prison product for a transfer, query West Virginia VINELink, and inspect both Monroe court levels. Call the facility on its main number when the timing matters. Ask staff which public procedure can confirm whether the person was released, transferred, or remains held. The broader Monroe County released-inmate search explains how these state, court, and notification sources fit together.

1. Choose WVDCR’s jail search and match more than the name.
2. Save the reported institution, status, and time checked.
3. Check the separate prison search if the jail result is gone.
4. Review VINELink and the Magistrate or Circuit docket.
5. Request the final release or movement record if the event remains unclear.

Southern Regional Jail Release Records

The final jail record can answer what an online current-custody view cannot. Ask WVDCR or SRJCF for the final booking and release summary, admission and release times, movement history, release type or code, releasing authority, and final custody destination. If an internal code appears, request its definition. The court clerk should receive a separate request for the signed bond, dismissal, sentencing, credit, or other order that gave legal authority for the change.

West Virginia FOIA provides the state and local public-record request framework. Under W. Va. Code §29B-1-3, the public body generally takes the stated action within five business days, excluding weekends and legal holidays. That action can furnish records, set an access time, or deny the request with reasons. Ask for electronic copies, a cost estimate, segregable nonexempt portions, and a written exemption basis for withheld material.

Release sheet

The facility record of the executed custody event.

Movement history

The trail showing transfers between institutions or authorities.

Releasing authority

The court, sentence calculation, or other basis staff acted upon.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another authority to keep or receive custody.

Web visibility and agency retention are different. No official source reviewed states how long a released SRJCF entry stays public. Ask for the governing retention schedule rather than guessing from a search result.

Southern Regional Jail Records Contact

The official facility page supplies the public address and main telephone. Use the main number for facility and release-record routing. The separate visitation scheduling number is not the release-verification line. Release hours, exit location, property return steps, transport, and weekend processing are not published on that official page, so call before traveling and do not assume a court order fixes the gate time.

For offender-record disclosure rules, consult the WVDCR policy library. Its index identifies policies on FOIA requests, records management, offender records, release of offender information, good-time computation, and access to the Offender Information System. A precise request gives the person’s name, another identifier, the Monroe-related booking period, the facility, and each desired record category.

Note: Call the main facility line before travel because orders, processing, and other holds can alter the expected release time.

Why Monroe Releases Start Elsewhere

SRJCF opened in 1994 in Beaver, Raleigh County. Its location outside Monroe County is not a minor detail. It explains why a search limited to Monroe County’s own web pages can miss the jail record even when the arrest and court case began in Monroe. WVDCR’s official facility page expressly includes Monroe in the seven-county service area, making the state-run regional system the correct first custody lane.

The official SRJCF facility profile shows that facility and service-area context.

The official profile establishes the operator, Beaver address, contact numbers, opening year, and Monroe service connection. It does not advertise a rolling release list. That distinction is why release confirmation depends on the jail event record and legal source rather than a county-hosted feed.

No published facility detail in the research identifies a fixed release hour, public exit, property-return method, ride service, or weekend schedule. Those gaps matter for families planning a pickup from Monroe County. Ask the main facility line what can be confirmed, keep plans flexible, and wait for direct notice before travel. A judge may have signed an order while intake, identity checks, property work, required paperwork, or a separate hold still delays the physical event. The absence of a public schedule should be reported as unknown, not filled with practices from another regional jail. Date-stamp every call and online check so a later status change can be placed in the correct order.

Southern Regional Jail Court Proof

A court docket explains why custody could end, while the facility record shows when staff carried out the event. Search the West Virginia court-record access page for both Magistrate and Circuit routes. Magistrate Court handles many initial appearances, misdemeanors, bail decisions, and felony preliminary stages. Circuit Court covers felony disposition, sentencing, appeals, and later orders. The order may appear in one level while the later case history appears in the other.

Read entries in order. Look for bond conditions, dismissal, plea, judgment, sentence, jail credit, probation, revocation, and amended orders. If the summary is vague, obtain the signed order from the clerk. A bond order does not establish acquittal. Likewise, a dismissal in one case does not prove that no separate hold existed. Pair the legal record with SRJCF’s release or movement entry for a defensible account.

Did an SRJCF parole grant mean same-day release? Not necessarily. The Parole Board says a regional-jail grantee must first transfer for DCR intake and fingerprinting, and it advises anticipating a processing delay. Record the decision, transfer, and physical release as separate events.

Southern Regional Jail Status Terms

Exact wording matters. Parole is conditional release from imprisonment under Board authority and WVDCR supervision. Probation comes from the court. Discharge generally marks the applicable sentence endpoint, though another sentence or duty may continue. Escape is an unauthorized departure from custody. An absconder allegedly failed to remain compliant or available under supervision. Neither escape nor absconding should be reported as an ordinary release.

Death ends physical custody but is not release to the community. A transfer also ends one facility’s custody without ending confinement. When the evidence supports only one agency’s event, state only that event. Confirm identity with at least two details beyond a common name, such as a middle name, birth year, offender number, booking date, court case number, or facility.

Note: Use the source’s exact status label and keep projected, ordered, transferred, and completed release dates in separate fields.