Tygart Valley Release Destinations
Tygart Valley is the principal regional-jail channel for a Randolph County arrest. A person may leave after posting bond, satisfying a time-served sentence, receiving dismissal or other release authority, or completing a sentence. Those events may result in return to the community. Yet leaving the building can also mean transfer to Huttonsville or another DCR prison, another regional jail, federal custody, or ICE. Those are continued custody events.
The destination field is therefore as important as the departure date. A court order may authorize release while a separate hold prevents community departure. Likewise, a transfer ends custody at Tygart Valley without ending custody overall. Ask WVDCR for the actual release or transfer transaction, its legal authority, and the receiving agency or destination. Use the agency’s own term. Never restate a transfer as a release into the community.
| Recorded outcome | Likely meaning | Confirm with |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or court release | Possible return to the community, subject to other holds | Court order and DCR departure transaction |
| Time served | Custodial term ended at this facility | Sentencing order, jail credit, and transaction |
| Prison or jail transfer | Custody continues at another institution | Transfer log and receiving-system match |
| Federal or ICE pickup | Another sovereign assumed custody | Destination field and federal or ICE channel |
Confirm Tygart Valley Releases
The official RJA Offender Search is the correct first check for current regional-jail custody. A positive result indicates that the system reports the person in custody. A missing former result does not disclose why the person left the search. It can reflect community release, transfer, another agency’s pickup, a spelling mismatch, or data timing.
- Search the exact name in the live RJA system and record the facility and time checked.
- Search the WVDCR prison system if sentencing or a prison transfer is possible.
- Check the correct person and agency through West Virginia VINE for a custody-change event.
- Review the Randolph Magistrate or Circuit Court case and obtain the actual bond, dismissal, sentencing, or commitment order.
- Ask DCR for the release or transfer transaction, date and time, authority, and destination.
- Continue with BOP, ICE, or the federal docket when the destination points to another sovereign.
A booking photograph or an old article is not release proof. The strongest evidence combines the facility’s completed transaction with the order that authorized it. The broader Randolph County released inmate search explains how each state, court, and federal system fits into one verification path.
Tygart Valley Release Records Contact
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates Tygart Valley and is the likely custodian of its booking, release, and transfer transaction. The Randolph Sheriff may hold arrest or incident records created by that office, but it may not hold the regional-jail departure record. The court clerk holds the order. Send each request to the office that created or maintains the record.
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility400 Abbey Road
Belington, WV 26250
Phone: 304-637-0382
Fax: 304-637-0289
Ask for the releasable booking or intake sheet, booking number or OID, admission date, actual release or transfer date and time, release type and authority, destination or receiving agency, and related order or certificate. If property return matters, request the property receipt. These are request targets, not a promise that each item exists or can be disclosed.
Request Tygart Valley Release Records
West Virginia FOIA §29B-1-3 requires reasonable specificity. As practicable and within a maximum of five days excluding weekends and legal holidays, the custodian must produce the record, set an inspection time, or issue a written denial with reasons. Electronic copies may be requested. Reproduction charges may reflect actual cost, but that section does not authorize search, retrieval, or staff-time charges.
Use the full name, date of birth, approximate booking range, facility, arresting agency, and case or booking number when known. Ask for segregable nonexempt portions and the statutory basis for withheld material. Juvenile, medical, victim, investigative, privacy, and correctional-security information may be redacted or withheld. A focused request for departure date, type, authority, and destination is more useful than a demand for every institutional record.
Note: No official release-record or booking-photo fee is verified for Tygart Valley, so request an estimate from DCR before ordering copies.
Tygart Valley VINE Release Checks
West Virginia VINE covers all ten regional jails, including Tygart Valley. Search the specific person, select the correct agency record, and inspect the custody status. Prospective users may choose an offered phone, email, text, or app notification method. The toll-free option is 1-866-984-8463. An alert is a timely feed from the participating agency, not a permanent release certificate.
The court record explains legal authority. West Virginia’s Magistrate Record Search accepts a first name, last name, or case number but returns no more than 30 index results. Documents are not online. Obtain the actual order from the proper clerk. A bond order may precede jail processing, while a commitment order can explain why the person left Tygart Valley for prison. Pair the order with the completed DCR transaction.
Transfer notifications can be delayed until arrival at the new facility for safety reasons. A quiet period during movement must not be reported as release. When VINE, the court docket, and the RJA search do not align, ask DCR to confirm the event.
Tygart Valley ICE Transfer Records
An official ICE detention-services agreement includes Tygart Valley. This federal overlay makes the destination question critical. A person can vanish from the state RJA result because immigration authorities assumed custody. Leaving Tygart Valley in that setting is not the same as release into the community.
Ask DCR for the receiving agency and destination, then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. ODLS accepts a nine-digit A-number with country of birth, or an exact name and country with optional date of birth. ICE says the tool includes current detainees and some people released from ICE within 60 days. Its short post-release scope is not an archive. A no-match can reflect scope, spelling, timing, age, or case facts and does not prove release.
For a sentenced federal prisoner, use BOP. For federal pretrial custody, use the federal docket and a focused USMS request because USMS has no public person-by-person release locator. Each sovereign’s search answers only its own custody question.
Tygart Valley Regional Release Role
Tygart Valley is a state-operated regional jail and correctional facility serving Randolph and neighboring counties. It is not a Randolph County-operated jail. WVDCR’s official facility information says it formally opened in June 2005. The facility also houses many women awaiting transfer to prison, which is a specific reason not to infer community release from a missing jail result.
The regional-jail path differs from the state-prison path used at Huttonsville. A Randolph defendant at Tygart Valley starts with the RJA current-custody system and the jail transaction. A person transferred into a state sentence moves to the prison search and DCR sentence records. Although both facilities sit in Randolph County and share a state operator, location alone does not choose the correct database.
The official Tygart Valley page does not publish a routine release hour, exit door, family waiting area, weekend or holiday practice, gate-money rule, property-return workflow, release app, or recent-release feed. Call before travel. Ask for the current written procedure when a detail matters, and do not infer a pickup time from a court order.
Transportation After Tygart Valley Release
The facility is about seven miles west of Elkins. Country Roads Transit’s scheduled route maps do not show Abbey Road as a regular stop. A 2024 jail supplement also reports that local transportation is unavailable at the facility. No bus pickup should be promised.
Families can call Country Roads Transit at 304-636-6472 to ask about current routes or demand-response possibilities and call Tygart Valley before traveling. Physical processing may continue after legal authority is entered. Holds, transport coordination, property reconciliation, and record checks can affect departure. Since the exact public exit and waiting procedure are not published, confirm arrangements directly rather than waiting at an assumed location.
Note: Release authority and physical departure may occur at different times, so arrange travel only after the facility confirms the current process.
Tygart Valley Release System History
Randolph County’s two WVDCR institutions can be confused because they are geographically close. Tygart Valley opened as a regional-jail channel in 2005. Huttonsville traces to a 1937 act, and its Work Camp opened in 2012. Those histories reflect different functions rather than one combined county jail system.
A transfer from Tygart Valley to Huttonsville changes the facility and search but does not end incarceration. The Tygart Valley transfer record should name the receiving institution, while the prison search can supply the next custody lead. If the person later leaves prison through parole, mandatory supervision, conditional release, or final discharge, that later event requires DCR prison and supervision records. Keeping the two departures separate prevents a transfer date from being mistaken for a Randolph County community release date.