Southern Regional Release Routes
A person can leave Southern Regional Jail in several ways, and the route controls which record proves the event. A pretrial detainee may return to the community after bond, recognizance, dismissal, or another court order. Someone serving a sentence may leave after time served, a computed discharge, a conditional program, or completed parole processing. Those are not all the same legal outcome. Bond leaves the criminal case open, while discharge generally marks the end of the custodial part of a sentence. Parole is conditional community supervision before final sentence discharge.
Other exits do not place the person in the community. WVDCR may transfer someone to a state prison, another regional jail, treatment or community corrections, or a different authority. A federal or immigration detainer can also result in immediate handoff. A detainer is a request or legal basis for another authority to assume custody. The final movement entry should state whether Southern Regional relinquished custody to the person or to a receiving agency. That destination matters as much as the exit date.
Confirm Southern Regional Jail Release
The official WVDCR offender-search landing page separates Jail Search, Prison Search, Daily Incarcerations, and absconder tools. Use the jail branch to test whether a person remains in regional-jail custody. Daily Incarcerations concerns admissions and active population, so it cannot prove a release. An absent name may reflect a release, transfer, delayed data, a spelling mismatch, or an access fault. WVDCR warns that court records control when online data differs from the legal record.
A focused sequence produces a stronger answer. Preserve the spelling, source, and time used for each check. Then compare the operational movement with the order that authorized it.
- Search WVDCR Jail Search by the person’s name and record the displayed institution and retrieval time.
- Check West Virginia VINE for the exact custody status supplied by the participating agency, without treating an alert as a certified record.
- Review the Mercer County court docket and signed bond, dismissal, sentencing, or release order that explains the legal basis.
- Request Southern Regional’s final movement or release entry, including the actual time, disposition code, and receiving agency if transferred.
- If parole is claimed, verify both the Parole Board action and the effective community-supervision status.
The broader Mercer County released-inmate search and record process explains how the county court, Sheriff, WVDCR, and VINE layers fit together. No single active roster replaces those checks for a former detainee.
Southern Regional Release Record
Ask WVDCR for an existing record, not a custom history. A useful request identifies the full name, known aliases, OID or booking number when known, Southern Regional Jail, the Mercer case number, and a narrow custody date range. Request the final movement or release date and time, disposition code with its plain-language meaning, the authorizing court and order, and the destination or receiving agency. If a discharge certificate or final timesheet exists for the requested record, name it specifically. Electronic copies and reasonably separable public portions can be requested.
| Record item | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Actual movement time | When physical custody at Southern Regional ended |
| Release or disposition code | Whether the exit was bond, discharge, transfer, or another classified event |
| Court and order reference | The legal authority for a Mercer County custody change |
| Receiving authority | Whether another jail, prison, program, or agency took custody |
| Final timesheet or MDD | The state calculation used for a sentenced person’s scheduled discharge |
Under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, a request must reasonably identify the record. WVDCR may withhold or redact protected medical, victim, investigative, or security information. That does not mean every basic movement fact is unavailable. Ask for redaction and the nonexempt remainder. No fixed public retention term for a Southern Regional release entry or historic booking image was verified, so online visibility should never be mistaken for agency retention.
Southern Regional Records Contact
The official Southern Regional Jail facility page identifies the WVDCR site and its direct contact points. The main number is the right starting point for facility routing, but records held at the central agency level may need a written request to WVDCR. No public records-counter schedule appears in the Mercer research, so call before an in-person attempt and ask which office maintains the requested final movement.
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility1200 Airport Road
Beaver, WV 25813
Main: 304-256-6726
Visitation scheduling: 304-256-6738
Fax: 304-256-6739
For a central WVDCR record request, the research identifies the Commissioner’s office at 1409 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311, with main telephone 304-558-2036. Cite Southern Regional Jail, the OID if known, the Mercer County case, and the custody interval. If WVDCR says a court order must be corrected, that issue goes to counsel and the Mercer circuit clerk. The Parole Board cannot amend a sentence or a court order.
Mercer Jail Search Geography
Mercer County’s adult jail geography is unusual. Southern Regional Jail is the principal long-term adult jail serving Mercer, yet the facility stands in Beaver in Raleigh County. It serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming Counties. WVDCR, not the Mercer County Sheriff, operates it. The Sheriff maintains a short-term holding facility in Princeton, while Sam Perdue Juvenile Center is a separate statewide juvenile facility with restricted individual records.
That division explains why a web search for a “Mercer County Jail” can return the wrong county or fail to identify the custodian. Follow the person’s custody path instead of a county label. Start with the Princeton holding disposition if the Sheriff made the arrest. If the entry says transferred, continue to Southern Regional and the WVDCR jail branch. If later records point to a state prison, switch to the prison branch. Juvenile custody must remain in authorized juvenile channels.
The state facility source shows Mercer among the counties served:
The captured facility details reinforce that a Mercer arrest can lead to a Raleigh County jail record without changing the Mercer court jurisdiction.
Southern Regional Custody Status
Three sources answer three different questions. The active WVDCR jail record asks whether the person appears to be held now. The final movement record states what Southern Regional did with physical custody. The court order explains why the action was lawful. VINE adds a status and notice layer, but transfer notices can wait until arrival at the next facility. A gap between institutions is not proof of community release.
| Source | Best use | Main limit |
|---|---|---|
| WVDCR Jail Search | Current regional-jail custody check | Not a historic release archive |
| Southern Regional movement record | Physical exit, time, and destination | May require a formal request |
| Mercer court order | Bond, dismissal, sentence, or other authority | Order time may precede gate processing |
| West Virginia VINE | Status change and notification | Not a certified discharge record |
A parole grant also needs care. It may be contingent, deferred, or rescinded before actual release. The Parole Board states that a regional-jail grantee may first transfer for WVDCR intake and fingerprinting. Confirm the physical exit separately from the decision and from the later start of supervision.
For every source, keep its own date and label. An eligibility date is not a release date. A court order time is not always the gate time. A VINE notice can trail a transfer, while a WVDCR movement entry can identify the receiving site. Keeping those facts separate prevents a lawful transfer from being reported as a Southern Regional community release.
Southern Regional Booking Records
A live WVDCR jail record may display a booking photograph, but the active system is not a dependable archive for someone who has left. For a former Southern Regional detainee, request the separable intake photograph from WVDCR by name, OID, facility, and booking interval. Disclosure is not guaranteed. Privacy, active investigation, court, and correctional-security limits can require withholding or redaction. No historic photo retention period was verified.
The WVDCR jail-search terms also restrict bulk reproduction and compilation of booking photos. A photo is not release proof in any event. It documents an intake identity at one point in time. Pair it with the final movement record and controlling court order when the goal is to confirm that Southern Regional custody ended and determine whether the person entered the community or moved elsewhere.
If the active image is gone, describe the exact historic item sought instead of asking for an online profile. The facility name, booking interval, OID, and Mercer case reference help WVDCR locate the right intake record without requiring staff to create a new report.