Pendleton 72 Hour Release Reality
No authoritative rolling three-day release view was located on the Pendleton County Sheriff, PHRJCF, or West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation (WVDCR) websites reviewed. The Sheriff is an arrest, local-record, and transport agency. It does not operate the adult regional jail. Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is state-run and serves Pendleton along with four other counties.
The absence of a public list does not mean the underlying event has no record. It changes the task from reading a feed to reconciling existing agency records over a fixed span. Define the opening and closing date and time, identify Pendleton commitments at PHRJCF, and ask the WVDCR custodian whether an existing movement report can be produced. If the agency has no such report, a focused person-specific request is more likely to return a clear result than a broad demand for a new list.
Reconcile Pendleton Three-Day Releases
A 72-hour review should be built as a small event ledger. Keep each source in its own column instead of merging unlike dates. A court may enter a bond or dismissal order before staff complete the physical release. WVDCR may post an active-search change after a movement. A VINE notice may arrive later still. Those are separate timestamps, not errors by default.
- Write the exact start and end time for the three-day period, including the time zone.
- Ask PHRJCF or WVDCR for existing movement or release events linked to Pendleton commitments in that interval.
- For each person, capture the booking or offender number, movement time, code, destination, and court reference.
- Match that reference against the Pendleton Magistrate or Circuit docket and obtain the filed order when needed.
- Check the separate WVDCR prison search for anyone whose regional-jail record vanished after a commitment.
- Compare VINE events as notice data, while treating the facility record as the direct movement source.
The West Virginia Court Record Access gateway separates magistrate and circuit paths. A bond order may support pretrial release. A dismissal may remove the Pendleton charge. A sentencing order can impose time served, probation, or a state commitment. The legal order explains why custody should change, while the facility movement record shows when control actually changed.
Note: Use one row per event so a transfer, court order, alert, and physical exit do not collapse into one date.
Pendleton 72 Hour Release Fields
Because no official public feed exists, these are requested record fields rather than claims about an online display. Together they establish identity, the relevant stay, the time of movement, and whether custody truly ended. A field may be withheld or redacted under an applicable rule.
| Field | Use in a three-day review |
|---|---|
| Name and aliases | Groups name variants without merging different people. |
| Birth date and WVDCR or booking number | Confirms the correct identity and episode. |
| Admission date and PHRJCF location | Links the event to regional-jail custody serving Pendleton. |
| Movement date and exact time | Places the event inside or outside the chosen interval. |
| Movement or release code | Classifies discharge, bond, transfer, or another action. |
| Destination or receiving authority | Shows whether custody continued elsewhere. |
| Court-order number | Connects the event with the Pendleton case. |
Ask for a code legend whenever the result uses an abbreviation. Do not translate a movement code based on a similar label from another state. Also request enough history to see an intermediate transfer. One person can leave PHRJCF during the period yet remain confined within WVDCR or another system.
Pendleton Weekend Release Review
A three-day span is practical around weekends because it reduces the risk of checking only one calendar date. It can capture an order entered late on one day, a facility movement recorded on another, and an agency update posted later. Yet no official PHRJCF weekend or holiday release procedure was found. No routine discharge time, family waiting rule, exit door, or update cadence was verified either.
Do not state that weekend releases are delayed, advanced, or handled at a set hour. Instead, preserve the actual timestamps. If the span crosses a holiday, name the full start and end dates in the request. West Virginia FOIA's response framework excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays when computing its maximum five-day agency action period. That rule concerns the response to a records request, not the time it takes to discharge a person.
When an office is closed, VINE may still provide an automated event notice and the active jail search may change. Those signals help build a timeline. They remain subject to data lag and should be checked against the custodian on the next business day when the exact event matters.
Pendleton Release Roster Data Quirk
West Virginia's regional-jail search is active-only. The dated Daily Incarcerations page is an admissions and current-incarceration report. No official PHRJCF or Pendleton rolling 72-hour release archive was located. This mismatch is the central data quirk for a three-day search.
A date on Daily Incarcerations identifies an admission context. It is not an exit date. Likewise, the disappearance of an active result says only that the person is no longer displayed in that search. It cannot reveal bond, dismissal, sentence completion, parole processing, transfer, detainer, or death. The defensible substitute is a release or movement record plus the Pendleton order authorizing the change.
The public jail result may have shown name, jail location, a photograph when available, and details such as birth date, booking date, or court order. Those active fields can aid identity matching. They are not a historical three-day field set. No public retention window for a released PHRJCF result was verified, so disappearance should not be described as record destruction.
Note: Daily Incarcerations can confirm an admission context, but it must never be labeled as Pendleton County released-inmate data.
Pendleton Releases Across Custody Systems
The three-day method changes with custody type. A Pendleton arrest usually leads through Sheriff transport to PHRJCF. A felony commitment can shift the record to the WVDCR prison side. Federal custody requires the Bureau of Prisons or U.S. Marshals route. An immigration transfer requires a separate ICE check. No state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was identified inside Pendleton County, but a local case can still lead to custody elsewhere.
| Custody path | Best official source | Meaning of a result |
|---|---|---|
| Regional jail | PHRJCF/WVDCR movement record | Shows release or transfer event and time. |
| State prison | WVDCR prison search and Records | May show continued custody, status, or discharge terms. |
| Federal | BOP locator or USMS record | A BOP release does not rule out other custody. |
| Immigration | ICE locator and agency record | A current locator result is not a PHRJCF release list. |
Parole also needs care. A grant while someone is housed in a regional jail precedes transfer to a DCR facility for intake and fingerprinting. The Board advises anticipating a processing interval before physical release. Within one 72-hour review, the hearing decision, movement, and community exit may not all occur.
Request Pendleton Three-Day Records
Frame the request around existing records under West Virginia FOIA. Give the three-day interval, the Pendleton connection, and the facility. Ask whether WVDCR keeps an existing report of movement or release events for Pendleton commitments at PHRJCF. FOIA does not generally require a public body to create a new report simply to answer a question.
For a known person, give full name, birth date, approximate admission date, case number, and booking or offender number. Request the admission record, exact movement time, type or code, destination, court-order reference, and code legend. Contact PHRJCF at 304-496-1275. The county page lists Sheriff Bradley Kimble. Ask the Pendleton Sheriff separately for arrest and transport records it created, then ask the clerk for the filed bond, dismissal, sentencing, probation, commitment, or revocation order.
No PHRJCF-specific release-record fee, turnaround promise, or online retention span was found. Ask for electronic delivery and an estimate before costs exceed a chosen limit. If a record is denied or redacted, request the cited basis and any nonexempt portion that can be separated. Keep the production date because later status changes do not erase what an earlier record showed.
Choose the Pendleton Release Window
Use the three-day interval when the goal is to collect and reconcile several days of Pendleton County movements. It is especially useful when the period crosses closed-office days or when an exact release date is not yet known. The method depends on an interval and a set of official records, not a public feed.
Use the Released Last 24 Hours page for a narrow same-day check and immediate travel or contact planning. For one named person whose custody path is uncertain, the home page's full search route is a better starting point. In every case, keep community release separate from a move to prison, another jail, federal custody, or immigration custody.
A reliable final entry should say which source reported which event and when it was accessed. For example, preserve the court-order time, WVDCR movement time, and alert time as distinct facts. That level of care is more useful than a single unverified label such as “released over the weekend.”