Find Randolph County Released Inmates

Randolph County Release Meanings

“Released” means that a person physically left one custodial facility. It does not always mean the person went home or ended every legal restraint. A bond release can leave a case pending. Parole and mandatory supervision occur in the community while state authority continues. A transfer ends custody at one building but starts or continues custody elsewhere. Final discharge is different: the sentence or parole term has ended under the controlling authority.

That distinction is vital in Randolph County. A person arrested locally will ordinarily enter the state-operated regional-jail system at Tygart Valley. A person serving a state sentence belongs in the prison system, even when housed nearby at Huttonsville. Federal and immigration custody use other systems. The agency that held the person creates the best departure record, while the Randolph court file explains the order behind many releases. Roster absence alone proves none of these outcomes.

Time served

The court-imposed custodial term has been satisfied.

Parole

Conditional community release from prison before final sentence discharge.

Probation

Court-ordered community supervision, which is separate from parole.

Discharge

The controlling agency has ended the sentence or supervision term.

Detainer

A request or authority that may hold the person for another agency.

Randolph County Release Types

The next search depends on why the person left. Tygart Valley may record a bond, court order, dismissal, time-served event, transfer, or pickup by another authority. Huttonsville departures may involve parole, conditional release, mandatory supervision, transfer, or final discharge. Agency terms should be kept as written because “transfer” must not be changed into “release.”

Did posting bond guarantee release? No. Bond in one Randolph case may not overcome another warrant, sentence, or detainer. Confirm the actual Tygart Valley departure and ask whether another agency received the person.

Randolph County Release Record Fields

A useful release packet ties the departure to the correct person and booking. The transaction may be separate from the intake sheet, court order, transfer log, property receipt, or discharge certificate. Request the record series that the custodian actually keeps. Not every field exists in every case, and exemptions may require redaction.

Tygart Valley and WVDCR are the likely custodians for the regional-jail transaction and booking image. The Randolph Sheriff holds only the arrest, incident, or other material it created. Magistrate or Circuit Court holds the order. For a Huttonsville prisoner, DCR records may include the time sheet, actual release transaction, and discharge certificate. A past minimum discharge date is a forecast, not proof of the actual exit.

Note: No verified public retention period exists for a released person’s Randolph online display, so a focused records request is the historical fallback.

Request Randolph County Release Records

West Virginia FOIA requires a reasonably specific request to the custodian. Under W. Va. Code §29B-1-3, the custodian must, as practicable and within a maximum of five days excluding weekends and legal holidays, produce the record, set an inspection time, or deny the request in writing. Electronic copies may be requested. Reproduction charges may reflect actual cost, but search, retrieval, and staff-time charges are not authorized by that section.

1. Identify the person with full name, date of birth, approximate booking range, facility, arresting agency, and case or booking number when known.
2. Send the jail release request to WVDCR or Tygart Valley. Send only Sheriff-created incident or arrest requests to the Randolph Sheriff.
3. Name the records: intake sheet, actual release date and time, release type and authority, destination, transfer agency, order or certificate, and booking photograph if needed.
4. Ask for electronic copies and all reasonably segregable nonexempt portions. Request the statutory basis for any withholding.
5. Obtain the related order from Magistrate or Circuit Court, then reconcile it with the facility’s actual transaction.

The Randolph Sheriff Law Enforcement Office is at Wees Annex, 32 Randolph Avenue, Suite 201, Elkins, WV 26241, and its phone is 304-636-2111. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Sheriff lists a $20 fee for certain incident and older accident reports. That amount is not a verified release-record or booking-photo fee. Ask the proper custodian for an estimate.

Randolph Release Law Boundaries

West Virginia FOIA provides access rules, not an automatic right to every part of a custody file. Section 29B-1-4 permits withholding under privacy, investigative, statutory, and correctional-security exemptions. Juvenile, medical, victim, sealed, and operational material may be restricted. A narrow request for date, type, authority, and destination often gives the custodian a clearer path to release useful portions.

Release, dismissal, and expungement are not synonyms. Under §61-11-25, some arrest, dismissal, or not-guilty matters have a distinct relief process. Section 61-11-26 governs eligible conviction expungement after statutory waiting periods and excludes many listed offenses. A granted order can change what agencies disclose. It does not mean the person was never booked, and physical release does not by itself seal the case.

Randolph Court Release Proof

Randolph court records often explain why release was authorized. The West Virginia Magistrate Record Search accepts a first name, last name, or case number and returns no more than 30 index results. It does not put the actual documents online. The judiciary’s court-record access page separates the available Magistrate and Circuit Court routes, so the correct clerk matters.

The official magistrate search instructions show that limit and direct users to local records for documents.

The screen is a route to an index entry, not the bond, dismissal, sentencing, or release order itself. Request the specific document from the clerk. The Randolph Circuit Clerk is at 2 Randolph Avenue in Elkins, phone 304-636-2765, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Then pair the signed order with DCR’s actual departure record.

Find Randolph County Released Inmates

Start by classifying the custody. A Randolph pretrial or short-sentence detainee normally belongs in the Tygart Valley regional-jail channel. A sentenced state prisoner belongs in the prison channel, including a person at Huttonsville. BOP covers federal sentences, ICE has its own locator, and federal pretrial custody may require a docket or USMS request. A no-match in one system cannot answer another system’s status.

1. Check the RJA current regional-jail search. A match means current reported custody. An absent former match is only a clue.
2. Use the WVDCR prison search for a state prisoner or a detainee who may have transferred after sentencing.
3. Search the correct person and agency through VINELink. Treat any alert as a timely lead, then confirm it with the agency record.
4. Review the magistrate or circuit docket for bond, dismissal, sentencing, commitment, or probation events. Obtain the actual order.
5. If parole is plausible, obtain the Board outcome and confirm the later physical departure through DCR or Parole Services.
6. Use BOP, ICE, or federal court and USMS channels when another sovereign held the person.
7. When online results end, request the actual release date, time, type, authority, destination, and supporting order.

Randolph WVDCR Release Search

The WVDCR search hub separates Daily Incarcerations, Jails, Prisons, and Escapees or Absconders. Choose Jails for current Tygart Valley custody. Choose Prisons for Huttonsville or a person transferred into a state sentence. Daily Incarcerations is custody-oriented. It must not be called a daily release list.

The RJA result is a present-custody lead. The prison result is a state-prison lead. Internal DCR time sheets can contain sentence data, jail credit, good-time changes, PED, and MDD, while the separate escapee or absconder channel supplies a warning status rather than an exact location.

The public prison result labels were not captured during research, so no promise can be made that every result displays “Released,” “Discharged,” a release date, a supervision office, or a projected date. Quote only the live label shown. DCR policies verify “minimum discharge/final release date,” or MDD, while the Board uses “parole eligibility date,” or PED. Neither confirms physical departure.

No Randolph Release Feed

Randolph County has no official Sheriff 24-hour list, 72-hour list, or release archive. The Sheriff website has no jail roster or mobile app. WVDCR also does not publish a Tygart Valley recent-release window through its official hub. No official release-feed fields, photo rule, update cycle, or retention window can be stated.

For a recent event, note the RJA status and time checked. Then use VINE, obtain the court order, and ask Tygart Valley or DCR for the named person’s release or transfer transaction. Provide the name, date of birth, booking period, facility, and arresting agency. Ask whether the departure was a community release or a transfer. The Jail Releases: 24 Hours route explains this same-day confirmation chain without inventing a public feed.

Note: Social posts and news reports may identify a case, but neither is a complete Randolph release archive or final confirmation.

Randolph Release Rides from Tygart

Tygart Valley sits about seven miles west of Elkins. Country Roads Transit’s scheduled maps do not show Abbey Road as a regular stop, and a 2024 jail supplement reports that local transportation is unavailable at the facility. A person or family should not assume that a bus will meet a release.

Call the facility at 304-637-0382 before traveling and ask which pickup details can be confirmed. Country Roads Transit lists 304-636-6472 for route and demand-response questions. Its maps and schedules show weekday loops and a place to ask what service may be possible. The exact release time, exit, waiting area, weekend practice, and property-return process are not published. A court order may authorize release before physical processing and record checks are complete.

Randolph Release Supervision Checks

Parole follows prison release and is administered by WVDCR Parole Services after a decision by the West Virginia Parole Board. Probation comes from the court. A prison-search result does not establish probation, and absence from a parole channel does not establish that no probation exists.

The Elkins Parole Office is at 1513 Harrison Avenue, Unit 27, Elkins, WV 26241, phone 304-637-0379. It serves Randolph within Region 6, but it is not a public name-search database. Randolph court probation is at 5 Randolph Avenue, Suite 1, Elkins, phone 304-636-4363. Verify probation through the sentencing case and responsible office. The Randolph County Probation & Parole page separates those routes.

Being on parole supports that physical prison release occurred, but it does not mean the sentence ended. When completion matters, request the Board or DCR discharge record rather than relying on an old release event.

Randolph Release Reentry Program

North Central Community Corrections adds a distinct local layer. The program began in June 2005 and later regionalized with Tucker and Barbour counties. Its Day Report Center serves people referred by a court through an alternative or community-supervision program.

This program is not a public released-inmate lookup, a universal walk-in release office, or proof that a named person left custody. Its role must be established through the court order or responsible program. The Randolph County Community Corrections office is at 5 Randolph Avenue, Suite 2, Elkins, and lists 304-636-5273. Published hours are Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Randolph Release Alerts and BOP

West Virginia VINE covers all ten regional jails and state correctional facilities. It can serve a Randolph detainee at Tygart Valley or a state prisoner at Huttonsville. Search the correct name and agency, open the record, and register an offered phone, email, text, or app method. The toll-free line is 1-866-984-8463. A custody-change alert is a timely lead, not a permanent certified release record. Transfers may not alert until arrival.

The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates released after 1982 and can show a Release Date and “RELEASED” location for covered records.

The locator accepts a BOP, DCDC, FBI, or INS number, or a name with optional filters. A past date means the person is no longer in BOP custody, but another custody system or supervision may continue. Federal pretrial history may require the federal docket and a focused USMS request.

Randolph Releases and ICE Transfers

An official ICE detention-services agreement includes Tygart Valley. A person who disappears from the regional-jail result may therefore have entered immigration custody rather than the community. Ask DCR for the destination or receiving-agency field. Then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.

ODLS accepts a nine-digit A-number plus country of birth, or an exact name plus country, with optional date of birth. ICE says it includes current detainees and some people released from ICE within the past 60 days. That short window is not a historical archive, and no match is not proof of community release. ICE lists 1-888-351-4024 for help, Monday through Friday except holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern.

Randolph Parole Release Delay

A parole grant for someone in a regional jail is not a same-day exit. The West Virginia Parole Board says the person must transfer to a DCR institution for intake and fingerprinting. Its published guidance says to anticipate seven to ten days. That sequence matters for Tygart Valley because a Board decision may exist while the person remains in or moves through custody.

Verify the written Board outcome, the later DCR release transaction, and the assigned parole office. The monthly hearing calendar shows scheduling, not a decision. Eligibility does not create a right to release. A grant may be followed by processing, transfer, plan checks, or another hold before physical departure.

Note: A parole grant, a transfer entry, and a community release are separate events and may appear on different dates.

Randolph Release Status Compared

Match each question to the system that can answer it. Search screens differ in scope, retention, and legal authority. Strong confirmation usually pairs an actual facility transaction with the order or decision that authorized it.

Which record is strongest? An actual release transaction or signed order ranks above roster absence, a search snippet, social post, news item, or old booking page. If strong records disagree, treat the release as unconfirmed and ask the custodian to reconcile them.

Randolph Release Facility Differences

Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, at 400 Abbey Road in Belington, is the main regional-jail route for a Randolph arrest. Bond, dismissal, time served, or sentence completion may lead to the community. Transfer to prison, another jail, federal custody, or ICE remains custody.

Huttonsville Correctional Center and Jail, with its Work Camp, is a state institution at 109 HCC Boulevard in Huttonsville. Parole, conditional release, mandatory-supervision release, or final discharge follows the prison path. A move between the camp, center, or another institution remains incarceration. Its location does not turn its statewide population into county-jail inmates.

Randolph Release Systems by History

Tygart Valley formally opened in June 2005 as a regional jail and correctional facility. Huttonsville traces to a 1937 legislative act, while its Work Camp opened in 2012 as a lower-security transition setting. Both lie in Randolph County and both are operated by WVDCR, yet they require different searches and records.

Geography does not select the database. A county defendant at Tygart Valley starts with the RJA search and regional-jail transaction. A sentenced Huttonsville prisoner starts with the prison search, DCR time sheet and release records, VINE, and Board or parole records when applicable. Record the facility, custody type, and destination before describing community release.