Southern Regional Jail Release Paths
Southern Regional Jail serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming counties. Its Beaver address is in Raleigh County, yet it is the primary regional-jail connection for many people held on Fayette County charges. The issuing or sentencing county matters. A search result tied to Southern Regional Jail should be reconciled with the Fayette court case rather than treated as a Raleigh County case merely because of the jail's location.
A Fayette detainee may leave Southern Regional Jail on bond or personal recognizance while the case remains open. Dismissal or acquittal may remove the Fayette charge as a custody basis, subject to any other hold. Time served or completion may end a local sentence. Sentencing can instead lead to transfer into the West Virginia prison system. Another warrant, federal writ, or detainer can also move the person to a new custodian. Only the first outcomes necessarily describe a return to the community.
Confirm a Southern Regional Jail Release
Start at the WVDCR Offender Searches hub and choose the jail search, not the prison search. The jail channel is the correct route for a person held at Southern Regional Jail on a Fayette charge. A current match supports reported custody. No match calls for more checking because the public application may lag, reject a spelling, or no longer display the episode.
- Search the person's full name in the WVDCR jail channel and try only a known alternate spelling.
- Compare the facility and any court or county detail with Southern Regional Jail and the Fayette case.
- Check West Virginia VINE for a specific custody or transfer event.
- Find the Fayette magistrate or circuit case and identify the bond, dismissal, sentencing, or transfer authority.
- Call the jail when a recent physical exit remains unclear, then seek the WVDCR release episode for durable proof.
The court order explains why custody could change, while the facility record shows what Southern Regional Jail recorded when the person left. A bond order may precede checkout. A sentencing order may send the person to prison. The Fayette County released-inmate search and records paths are covered in more depth on the Fayette County release search.
Note: Daily Incarcerations is a current or admissions channel, not a verified list of people released during a set time window.
Southern Regional Jail Release Contact
Call for a recent physical release or transfer when the online sources conflict. Ask whether the person remains at Southern Regional Jail, whether the recorded exit was a release or a transfer, and where a narrow request for releasable release information should go. Staff may limit what can be disclosed. The official page does not publish general lobby or release hours, so no arrival time or waiting point should be assumed.
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
1200 Airport Road
Beaver, WV 25813
Telephone: 304-256-6726
Fax: 304-256-6739
Hours: General lobby and release hours are not published on the official page.
The official Southern Regional Jail page is the source for the address, contact numbers, and county-service relationship. It does not provide a public recent-release archive, a release-processing schedule, or a released-photo collection.
The official facility view below is useful for confirming that the source is West Virginia DCR and that the correct Southern Regional Jail has been selected.
That page identifies the institution serving Fayette cases, but a person-specific release still requires the jail, VINE, court, or WVDCR record chain.
Southern Regional Jail Release Records
A strong records request identifies the exact Southern Regional Jail episode instead of demanding an entire correctional file. Give the full name and useful aliases, an approximate admission and exit range, and the offender, booking, or court number when known. Ask for releasable commitment and release information, including the recorded release date and time, facility, release type or authority, and transfer destination if that destination may lawfully be disclosed.
| Source | What it can establish | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Jail search | Current reported regional-jail custody | A miss does not prove release |
| VINE event | A custody event reported by the participating custodian | It is a signal, not the full episode record |
| Fayette court order | Bond, dismissal, sentence, or other legal authority | It may not show physical checkout time |
| WVDCR release record | The jail's recorded exit, type, and related releasable data | Protected content may be redacted |
Under West Virginia FOIA, the request must reasonably describe the record. WVDCR is the proper custodian for the regional-jail episode, while the Fayette Sheriff holds a sheriff-created arrest report and the court clerks provide judicial orders. Those are separate records. Asking the Sheriff for a Southern Regional Jail booking and release record routes the request to the wrong agency.
West Virginia law permits actual reproduction costs and bars a search, retrieval, or man-hour charge under the cited FOIA provision. The requester should ask for an estimate and invite redaction of protected material. Medical, victim, witness, security, juvenile, sealed, and expunged information should not be requested as part of a public release inquiry.
Fayette Release Geography at Southern
Fayette County's custody map points in two directions. Southern Regional Jail sits outside Fayette but serves ordinary local detainee cases from the county. Mount Olive release records follow a separate state-prison route because that facility sits inside Fayette but holds a statewide sentenced population. The correct search follows the kind of custody, not the county name typed into a general search engine.
For Southern Regional Jail, use the regional-jail OIS channel and confirm Fayette as the issuing or sentencing county when that information appears. For Mount Olive, use the state-prison channel. A person should not be placed in one system simply because an address or search result contains Fayette. This distinction also guards against results for identically named counties in other states.
- Regional-jail release
- An exit from a WVDCR regional jail that may mean community release or transfer.
- State-prison transfer
- A change from jail custody to a sentenced-prison placement, not a return to the community.
- Final discharge
- The later end of the applicable sentence or supervision, distinct from a jail gate date.
Southern Regional Jail ICE Transfers
An immigration detainer can make the word “release” misleading. ICE describes a detainer as notice plus a request that a jail maintain custody for up to 48 hours so immigration officials can assume custody. If that assumption occurs after Southern Regional Jail ends its own episode, the person has transferred between custodians. The person has not returned to the community.
First obtain the Southern Regional Jail event or ask whether the exit was to another authority. Then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. It covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days, but some people do not appear and data can lag. Search by the required identity fields. A miss cannot establish release, removal, or the absence of immigration custody.
If the online locator fails, ICE's Detention Reporting and Information Line is 1-888-351-4024, Monday through Friday except holidays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern. The Fayette court case explains the local charge. It does not prove what happened after ICE or another authority took custody.
Note: Report the two events separately, such as release from WVDCR custody followed by transfer to immigration custody, when the records support both.
Transportation After a Southern Release
A 2023 Southern Regional Jail facility supplement names New River Transit Authority at 304-894-8917, Greyhound at 304-253-8333, and app-based Uber and Lyft as local transportation contacts. That resource is useful for planning, but it does not promise a stop at the release door, a trip funded by the jail, or a driver who may enter facility grounds.
Confirm the physical release before arranging pickup. Ask Southern Regional Jail for the current release process and an authorized meeting point. Then ask the provider about service hours, route limits, fare, and the exact pickup location. The jail's public page gives no verified gate time, weekend practice, or family waiting area. A projected court or discharge date is not a safe basis for sending a driver.
The Southern Regional Jail facility supplement is secondary local evidence. Conditions may change, so same-day confirmation is necessary.
Southern Release Property and Fees
WVDCR's policy index identifies release, release transportation, inmate property, identification, offender-record information, and jail-processing-fee policy families. Their existence gives a records custodian a precise topic to locate when Southern Regional Jail's public facility page is silent. It does not make a person-specific detail public or establish a local property pickup deadline.
West Virginia Code §15A-5-8 sets a $30 processing fee for a person committed to jail by court order. The statute says unpaid amounts may be collected from later trust-account deposits and should be paid before release. When the person is not convicted of the booked offense, a refund can be available with proof that all charges were dismissed, a current name and address, and valid photo identification. The statutory exceptions make the final Fayette disposition important even after the jail result disappears.
Ask Southern Regional Jail about a particular property receipt or fee episode. For a fee refund, use the WVDCR policy and form tied to the booking facility, supported by the court disposition. Do not infer that property remains available for a set period or that a balance changes the lawful release decision without a source addressing that exact question.