Southern Regional Jail Release Paths
A Wyoming County arrest commonly leads to Southern Regional Jail in Beaver. WVDCR, not the Wyoming County Sheriff's Department, controls the regional-jail booking and release record. Custody can end in several ways. A person may leave for the community on bond, recognizance, time served, sentence completion, or another court-approved basis. The person may instead transfer to a WVDCR prison after sentencing, move to another jail, or be delivered to another government custodian. Each event removes the person from the facility, but only some are community releases.
The best record identifies the actual release date and time, the method of discharge, and the release or transfer destination. WVDCR Policy Directive 142.00 treats those items as public categories in an offender record, subject to lawful limits and redaction. A court order answers what a judge authorized. It does not always show when jail staff completed checks and the person crossed the exit. A West Virginia VINE event can flag a custody change, but it is not a lasting certified release record.
Confirm Southern Regional Jail Release
The WVDCR offender-search gateway separates regional-jail searches from prison searches and Daily Incarcerations. Use the regional-jail option to check present custody at Southern. Do not treat Daily Incarcerations as a release list. Neither WVDCR nor Wyoming County publishes a verified rolling 24-hour or 72-hour released-person feed for this facility.
Follow the custody chain in order. Keep the full name, birth date or WVDCR identifier, approximate booking dates, committing county, and court case number together. Those details reduce the risk of joining two people who share a name.
- Check the Regional Jail offender search and record the displayed facility, identifier, status, and time of the check.
- If no current match appears, check the separate prison OIS for a transfer after sentencing.
- Review Wyoming County Magistrate or Circuit Court records for the bond, dismissal, sentence, modification, or discharge order.
- Compare any VINE notice with the WVDCR record because VINE may delay notice during a facility transfer.
- Ask WVDCR for the actual release date and time, method of discharge, and release or after-the-fact transfer destination.
The named-person search and release-record workflow is also covered on the Wyoming County released inmates home page. Use it when the facility is uncertain or the court path needs to be checked alongside custody.
Southern Regional Jail Release Records
Address the jail-record request to WVDCR. Policy Directive 108.01 identifies the Commissioner as records custodian and calls for a written request that describes the requested records with reasonable specificity. State the person's full name, birth date or OID if known, Southern Regional Jail, Wyoming as the committing county, and an approximate date range. Ask for electronic delivery when practical.
A focused request should name the evidence needed. Ask for admission or commitment date and time, actual release date and time, method of discharge, judicial district of release, release destination, and any after-the-fact transfer destination that is public. A file photograph is also listed as a public category by Policy 142.00, but requesting it as a separate item keeps an image question from delaying the core release fields.
| Requested field | What it resolves |
|---|---|
| Actual release date and time | When WVDCR custody at Southern ended |
| Method of discharge | Whether the exit was release, transfer, parole, or another event |
| Release destination | Whether the record supports community departure |
| Transfer destination | Which custodian or facility received the person |
| OID and docket | Which person and court case the record concerns |
West Virginia FOIA allows a maximum five-day response period, excluding weekends and legal holidays, for production, an inspection arrangement, or a written denial. Actual reproduction cost may be charged, but the law does not allow a search, retrieval, or man-hour fee. Privacy, security, investigative, juvenile, sealed, and expunged material may still be withheld or redacted.
Southern Regional Jail Contact
Call before a trip, especially when arranging pickup. No official fixed discharge hour, release door, family waiting area, transit stop, weekend procedure, or property-return instruction was found. Staff may limit what they can confirm by phone. If so, ask which records office accepts a written request and which facts are public.
1200 Airport Road
Beaver, WV 25813
Phone: 304-256-6726
Fax: 304-256-6739
Call for current access and release-logistics information.
For a recent event, ask a narrow question: whether the public WVDCR record shows custody ended, the date it ended, and whether the method was community discharge or transfer. A refusal or inability to answer by telephone is not proof of either outcome. The formal record remains the stronger evidence.
Southern Jail's Regional Release Model
Southern Regional Jail was built in 1994 and serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming counties. The facility stands in Raleigh County near Airport Road and I-64, not at the Wyoming County courthouse in Pineville. This regional model explains why a commercial page labeled “Wyoming County Jail” can send a search in the wrong direction.
The Wyoming County Sheriff arrests, secures, and transports prisoners. WVDCR operates the jail and owns the core custody record. The committing court supplies the bond, disposition, or sentence order. These roles should not be merged. Facility totals also cover seven counties, so they cannot be called Wyoming County release figures without a county-filtered record.
- Community release
- Departure from custody under a lawful release basis, which may still include supervision.
- Transfer
- Movement from Southern to a prison, jail, or another custodian, not a return to the community.
- Discharge
- The recorded way a particular custody or supervision relationship ended.
- Detainer
- A request or hold that can lead to delivery to another agency instead of release.
Southern Release Court Checks
Wyoming County Magistrate Court handles bail, misdemeanors, and felony preliminary matters. Circuit Court holds felony trial and sentencing records. The free Magistrate Case Record Search can return a disposition and document list, but it does not provide the underlying order. Obtain the bond, dismissal, judgment, sentence, or modification document from the proper clerk.
Match the court action to WVDCR's actual release field. A bond-posted date can come before physical release because the jail still must process the order, identity, transport, and any holds. A sentence date can be followed by a transfer to prison. Two differing dates may therefore describe two separate steps rather than an error.
Note: Preserve the source, access time, identifier, and exact status words when comparing a court order with a jail release record.
After Southern Regional Jail Release
Physical release does not always end state control. Parole is conditional release approved by the West Virginia Parole Board and supervised by WVDCR Parole Services. Probation is ordered and supervised through the court system. Home confinement is another court-authorized status. The Sheriff's page names a local Home Confinement Officer, but a missing jail result alone does not show that a person entered that program.
If the release record identifies parole, verify the supervising office separately. If it shows transfer, continue with prison OIS or the named receiving custodian. For a straight community discharge, the facility record confirms the jail exit, while the court file explains the legal basis. Never publish a private home address merely because a destination field appears in a response.
Southern Release Transition Resources
WVDCR publishes a facility-specific Southern Regional Jail Resource Guide. It points to WV 211 for free, confidential referral help around the clock and to Help4WV for behavioral-health and substance-use support. It also identifies benefit, vital-record, and regional service contacts. These are navigation resources. They do not prove that a released person enrolled in any program.
The guide can help with needs that arise after the record is confirmed, while release logistics still require a direct call to the Beaver facility. Ask about pickup timing, personal property, identification, medication procedures, and the correct exit location before travel. Do not assume a standard schedule that the agency has not published.