Find Pendleton County Released Inmates

Pendleton County Release Records Explained

Pendleton County does not operate the adult jail that many searchers expect to find under the county name. A person arrested in the county is ordinarily taken by the Sheriff to Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, or PHRJCF, in Augusta. The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates that regional facility. It serves Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton counties. That custody model divides the paper trail between a local arrest and court case, a Sheriff transport record, and a state regional-jail booking and movement record.

“Released” should describe a known exit event, not just a name that vanished from a search. Bond or recognizance can return a person to the community before trial. A dismissal, acquittal, time-served order, sentence completion, probation order, or parole can also change custody. Transfer is different. A felony commitment may move someone from the regional jail into another WVDCR institution, while a detainer may send the person to another agency. A detainer is a request or order that another authority hold or take custody of a person.

Discharge

The end of the custody term shown by the agency record.

Time served

A release after credited jail time satisfies the term ordered by the court.

Probation

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

Parole

Conditional community release from a prison sentence under WVDCR supervision.

Transfer

A move to another facility or authority while custody continues.

Pendleton County Inmate Release Types

The recorded release or movement type determines what source should be checked next. PHRJCF may carry out an order from Pendleton Magistrate or Circuit Court, but the court order and the facility event answer different questions. The order supplies legal authority. The movement record supplies the time, code, and destination recorded when control changed.

A hold can delay release even after one Pendleton charge ends. Likewise, a parole grant at a regional jail is not the door-out event. The Parole Board states that a person granted parole from a regional jail first transfers to a DCR facility for intake and fingerprinting. It advises allowing seven to ten days before actual parole release. Each date should remain separate.

Note: A completed court order and a physical release may have different timestamps, so compare both records when exact timing matters.

Pendleton County Release Record Fields

A useful record identifies the person, the custody episode, and the event that ended or changed that custody. Public search screens expose only part of the underlying data. PHRJCF or WVDCR may use an internal movement code instead of a plain description. A request should ask for the code legend or field definition so that a transfer is not mislabeled as a community release.

Name, aliases, and birth date

Identity used to match the correct person.

Booking or offender number

The agency identifier for the custody episode.

Admission date and time

When regional-jail control began.

Facility and committing agency

Who held the person and who sent the person there.

Release or movement date and time

When custody ended or changed in the facility system.

Exit type, destination, and order

Whether the event was bond, discharge, transfer, parole processing, or another movement and which authority directed it.

Request Pendleton County Release Records

West Virginia Freedom of Information Act chapter 29B supplies the general inspection and copying process for nonexempt public records. Requests should seek existing records and go to the body that controls them. PHRJCF and WVDCR control the regional-jail admission, booking, release, and movement trail. The Pendleton County Sheriff controls the arrest and transport material it created. A court clerk supplies filed orders. One broad request sent to the wrong office can miss the key event.

1. Identify the person by full name, date of birth, approximate booking dates, case number, and booking or offender number when known.
2. Ask PHRJCF or WVDCR for the admission record, booking number, release or movement date and time, exit code, code legend, destination, court-order reference, and enough movement history to tell release from transfer.
3. Ask the Sheriff separately for the incident or arrest number, arrest and transport times, destination, and any commitment or transport document.
4. Request the filed bond, dismissal, sentencing, probation, commitment, or revocation order from the proper Pendleton clerk.
5. Ask for electronic copies, a cost estimate above a stated limit, and the nonexempt portion plus the legal basis for any denial or redaction.

The statute calls for a custodian to furnish copies, arrange inspection, or give a written reason for denial within a maximum of five days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. That is an action deadline, not a promise that a large production will be complete in five days. Reasonable reproduction costs may apply, but the statute bars search, retrieval, and man-hour charges. No PHRJCF-specific fee schedule, fixed completion time, or online retention period was found, so none should be assumed.

The official Pendleton County Sheriff page is the source for the office and its transport role.

The screenshot helps identify the local custodian, while the regional-jail movement must still be requested from PHRJCF or WVDCR.

Pendleton Release Records Under FOIA

Public access is not absolute. Section 29B-1-4 lists exemptions that can cover qualifying personal, medical, and law-enforcement-sensitive material. Juvenile records, sealed material, and records affected by a court order need special care. When part of a record is exempt, request the segregable nonexempt portion. A written denial should identify the basis used.

Expungement can change lawful public access without rewriting the historical facility event. West Virginia Code sections 61-11-25 and 61-11-26 create different petition routes based on the outcome, offense, and later eligibility. The covered records can include arrest data, fingerprints, photographs, index entries, and electronic data. Do not use a mirror to evade a sealed or expunged record. No official public retention window for a released PHRJCF search entry was verified, and removal from the active interface does not mean that WVDCR destroyed its underlying record.

The official FOIA chapter shows the controlling text used for a focused release request.

The chapter provides the process and exemptions framework, while disclosure still depends on the record, custodian, and any court limits.

Note: Search-screen disappearance is a display limit, not a proven government retention or destruction rule for the underlying Pendleton custody record.

Find Pendleton County Released Inmates

Start with the custody type. The official WVDCR gateway separates regional-jail, prison, daily-incarceration, escapee, and absconder tools. A name in the jail search is an active regional-jail result. A miss is not a historical release certificate. If the person may have received a state-prison sentence, check the prison search before using the word released. Then match the correct agency result to a Pendleton court order and the movement record.

1. Search the WVDCR jail interface with exact name variants. Treat a match as active regional-jail supervision.
2. If no active result appears, call PHRJCF at 304-496-1275 and request the release or movement event instead of guessing.
3. Check the WVDCR prison search for a possible state commitment, transfer, or prison discharge record.
4. Use the Pendleton Magistrate or Circuit docket for the bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, commitment, or revocation order.
5. Check VINE for a reported custody event and the correct supervision office when parole or probation may follow.
6. Use BOP, ICE, or USMS records only when federal or immigration custody is plausible.

The active regional-jail tool and Daily Incarcerations cannot supply a Pendleton County release archive. Daily Incarcerations reports admissions and current incarceration, not releases. A person-specific movement request is the sound fallback. For the only adult facility documented as serving the county, the PHRJCF release and records page provides the facility route.

WVDCR Pendleton Release Search

WVDCR uses separate jail and prison searches. The prison tool asks for first and last name and an anti-robot check. A candidate should be matched by date of birth and offender number, not by name alone. Record the exact facility, status, and date labels that appear. The direct application was blocked during the research check, so it is not sound to promise that every discharged person stays searchable or that every result exposes a field called projected release date.

PED means parole eligibility date. It opens consideration but does not promise a hearing or release. The minimum discharge date is WVDCR’s term for the expected end of DCR custody if the person is not paroled, does not escape, and does not lose good time. Neither date should be merged with a parole grant, physical release time, supervision start, or final discharge from parole.

Pendleton Release Records Cross Counties

Custody and case records sit in different counties. PHRJCF is in Hampshire County, but a Pendleton prosecution remains in Pendleton Magistrate or Circuit Court. Pendleton is part of the Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit with Hampshire and Hardy. The Judiciary provides both its statewide public-resources page and a county court gateway. The official Pendleton County Judiciary page then routes searchers to the correct local clerks and court offices.

The court page identifies the Pendleton side of the record trail, which must be paired with the state-run facility record from Augusta.

Magistrate Record Search is free and permits first name, last name, or case number searches, though the result list is capped and does not deliver the filed documents. WVPASS covers public circuit records statewide and offers downloadable documents for a per-page portal charge. A bond order, dismissal, sentence, probation order, commitment, or revocation can explain the legal event. The jail movement record remains the source for the actual facility time and recorded destination.

Pendleton Release Transport Records

The Pendleton Sheriff expressly lists prisoner transportation and extraditions among its duties. That fact creates a split record trail. Sheriff files may show the arrest, incident number, transport time, destination, and commitment document. WVDCR files show the regional-jail admission, booking, custody location, release, and later movement events. Neither office should be assumed to hold the whole custody episode.

A complete request should follow the record creator. Send the Sheriff a focused request for the arrest and transport material. Send PHRJCF or WVDCR a separate request for the custody and movement material. If those records point to a court order, obtain that filed order from the Pendleton clerk. Conflicting times need not mean one record is wrong. A court may authorize release before staff complete the physical exit, and a later system update may appear after both.

Note: Ask each custodian for the records it created; identical requests sent to unrelated agencies can obscure Pendleton’s divided custody trail.

Pendleton Releases Use Regional Custody

PHRJCF is a five-county, state-operated institution, not a Pendleton-branded jail. An official annual report dates its opening to February 2000. This regional structure explains why a search for a local county jail release list misses the official system. The Pendleton Sheriff handles local law-enforcement and transport functions, while the state operates the adult facility and its offender search.

Regional custody also affects how movement is read. A person can leave PHRJCF for the community, another WVDCR site, a classification or treatment placement, another sovereign, or parole intake. The visible name may disappear in each case. Facility context such as its five-county service area or documented capacity cannot establish any named person’s custody state. Only the person-specific search, movement record, and related order can do that.

Transportation After Pendleton Release

PHRJCF sits in Augusta, outside Pendleton County. Potomac Valley Transit Authority serves Hampshire and Pendleton through regional fixed, deviated, and demand-response options. No reviewed official source confirms a jail-door stop or an automatic same-day discharge ride. Transportation must be planned, not promised.

Call Potomac Valley Transit Authority at 304-257-1414 or 1-800-565-7240 before travel and ask about the current route, reservation needs, pickup point, and hours. Call PHRJCF separately before anyone drives to Augusta. The facility does not publish routine discharge hours, an exit door, family waiting rules, weekend procedures, or a property-return workflow. A court event or VINE notice should not be treated as a pickup time.

Pendleton Release Supervision Paths

After release, probation, parole, and day-report participation are separate statuses. Pendleton probation follows a court order and is handled through the West Virginia Judiciary. State parole is decided by the West Virginia Parole Board and supervised by WVDCR Parole Services. The Elkins Parole Office serves Pendleton. An absconder listing means alleged noncompliance or unknown whereabouts under supervision; it is not a new jail booking and does not prove a new conviction.

South Branch Valley Day Report Center serves the Hampshire, Hardy, and Pendleton region and has Franklin access. It documents court-ordered check-ins, probation coordination, case management, testing, recovery work, life-skills programming, and some virtual options. It is a community-corrections contact, not a public locator and not proof of the exact release time. The distinctions and office routes are covered more fully on the Pendleton County Parole / Probation page.

Note: Supervision can confirm a post-release status, but the PHRJCF movement record remains the source for the physical custody exit.

Pendleton Release Alerts and Transfers

West Virginia VINE supplies custody-event searches and notifications for regional jails and state correctional facilities. Search one person, confirm the agency and identity, and read the event wording exactly. A release notice should be checked with PHRJCF or WVDCR when the type, time, or destination matters. Transfer calls may be held until arrival at the next institution for safety reasons, so a gap during movement is not proof of community release.

Federal systems require their own checks. The BOP inmate locator can show a historical federal release date and “Released” or “Not in BOP custody,” but that does not rule out state, local, immigration, parole, or supervised-release status. The ICE locator is a current and limited recent-release tool, not a PHRJCF archive. For federal pretrial transport, the USMS FOIA route may supply the appropriate records path. No federal prison or ICE detention center was identified inside Pendleton County.

Pendleton Released Versus Active Custody

Choose the system based on the custody episode, not on which search ranks first. The same person can move between systems, and each database answers a narrower question.

Pendleton County Release Facility

Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is the sole documented adult facility serving Pendleton County in the reviewed authoritative directories. It is at 355 Dolan Drive, Augusta, West Virginia 26704, and its main number is 304-496-1275. The facility holds people for five counties under WVDCR operation. No separately operated county adult jail, municipal adult jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was located inside Pendleton County.

A Pendleton arrestee may go from local arrest and court process to Sheriff transport and then PHRJCF booking. From there, the person may return to the community or move deeper into custody. Confirm which occurred through the facility movement record, the Pendleton court order, and the receiving system when a transfer is recorded.