Tygart Valley Release Destinations
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility can record several kinds of exits. Direct community release may follow bond, recognizance, dismissal, time served, completion of a misdemeanor sentence, or another court-authorized discharge. The related Upshur case may still continue after a pretrial release. A direct exit also does not show whether court probation or DCR supervision follows.
Other departures keep the person in custody. A person may transfer to a WVDCR prison, another regional jail, another county or state warrant holder, federal custody, or possible immigration custody. The receiving facility or agency becomes the next search point. A current Tygart Valley name disappearing from OIS therefore cannot answer where the person went. The release or transfer transaction, court order, VINE event, and receiving system provide that answer.
Confirm a Tygart Valley Release
The official release route starts with WVDCR because WVDCR operates the facility. The Upshur Sheriff can supply sheriff-created arrest or transport records, but it does not operate Tygart Valley and cannot certify the state regional jail's exit transaction. The applicable Upshur magistrate or circuit court supplies the legal authority for bond, dismissal, sentence, confinement credit, probation, or discharge.
- Search the WVDCR regional-jail OIS by first and last name. Save the OID, facility, booking context, and last status shown.
- Check the same person in West Virginia VINE. Keep the exact status or notification wording and its time.
- Search both magistrate and circuit records for the Upshur case. Identify the order or docket event that may authorize release.
- Call Tygart Valley with the full name, birth date or OID, and approximate booking date. Ask whether staff can confirm the current location or route a records request.
- If no public source settles the event, request the DCR release or transfer date, time, type, authority, and publicly disclosable destination.
These steps serve different roles. OIS identifies the custody episode. VINE gives time-sensitive custody-change information. The court explains legal authority. DCR maintains the physical release or transfer event. The full Upshur County released inmate search also distinguishes the prison, federal, and immigration paths when the destination is uncertain.
Note: Save identifiers before a current record changes because they help DCR locate the exact regional-jail episode later.
Tygart Valley Records and Contact
The official Tygart Valley facility page lists the address, telephone, and fax. It does not publish a public records-desk schedule, a release-processing hour, a family waiting location, or a guaranteed time for direct release. Call before arranging a pickup or visit.
Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility400 Abbey Road
Belington, WV 26250
Telephone: 304-637-0382
Fax: 304-637-0289
Operator: West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
For a records request, identify the full name, birth date or OID, facility, booking date, and Upshur case number. Ask for the admission date and time, release or transfer date and time, transaction or reason code with its plain-language meaning, whether the person entered the community or another agency's custody, and the receiving agency when public. Electronic delivery and a fee estimate can also be requested. Protected medical, victim, juvenile, security, sealed, and other exempt information may be withheld or redacted.
Tygart Valley Release History
Tygart Valley opened in June 2005. Its official page places it in Randolph County, off the Coalton or Norton exit of Route 33 and about seven miles west of Elkins. It serves Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Upshur counties. That seven-county role explains why a Tygart Valley list cannot be relabeled as an Upshur-only roster.
The facility combines regional jail and correctional duties. It holds adult pretrial and sentenced jail populations. WVDCR also says the site houses most of the state's women who are waiting for transfer to prison. A 2021 PREA audit reported male and female, pre-sentence and sentenced populations, twenty-four housing units, and a rated capacity of 368. Those figures are an audit snapshot, not a current population or capacity guarantee.
The successful manifest capture comes from the official WVDCR facility source.
The source confirms the state operator, location, contact route, opening date, and multi-county service area that shape every Upshur release search.
Upshur Records Follow Three Custodians
An Upshur law-enforcement agency may arrest and process someone. An Upshur magistrate or circuit judge may set bond or order confinement. WVDCR then holds the person at Tygart Valley. Each body creates a different record, and no one record tells the whole story.
| Custodian | Record role | What to request |
|---|---|---|
| WVDCR and Tygart Valley | Facility custody event | Admission, location, release or transfer transaction, time sheet, and agency-held photo |
| Upshur Sheriff | Sheriff-created activity | Arrest, incident, transport, and any sheriff-held image |
| Upshur magistrate or circuit court | Legal authority and case result | Bond, release, dismissal, judgment, sentence, credit, probation, or discharge order |
A court order may authorize release before the facility finishes out-processing. Conversely, a dismissed Upshur charge can coexist with another hold. Match the order to the DCR event and check the destination before describing the outcome.
Tygart Valley Release Record Fields
A narrow request is more reliable than asking for every document in an offender file. WVDCR Policy Directive 142.00 governs disclosure from inmate and offender records, while West Virginia FOIA begins with access to public records subject to exemptions. Ask for segregable facts tied to one custody episode.
- OID or booking identifier
- The number that distinguishes the correct person and episode.
- Release transaction
- The coded DCR event, date, time, and plain-language reason for the exit.
- Release authority
- The court, order, sentence, or DCR basis associated with the event.
- Destination
- Community release or transfer to a named receiving body when that fact is public.
- Discharge certificate
- A formal DCR record that may document the end of the applicable authority.
Online visibility and agency retention differ. WVDCR's records-management policy uses approved schedules, but the public sources do not support one fixed number of days for every Tygart Valley transaction, photograph, or OIS result. Ask for the schedule and record-series name if retention is important.
Note: Request the booking photograph as a separate item because the live OIS image may no longer appear after custody changes.
Tygart Valley Release or Transfer
A regional-jail search answers whether a current jail record appears. It does not supply a complete historical release archive. If the person enters a WVDCR prison, continue with the prison side of OIS. Its full detail may show location, intake date, projected release date, next parole hearing, maximum parole discharge date, a photograph, and court-order information.
Read those labels exactly. A projected date is conditional. A parole hearing is a chance for consideration, not a release promise. A maximum parole discharge date concerns the end of parole authority, not the day someone walked out. A person released on parole may remain visible because DCR jurisdiction continues. A fully discharged former prisoner may no longer appear, making the DCR record and sentencing court the historical fallback.
Federal and immigration transfers require different tools. Use the BOP locator for a sentenced federal prisoner and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. The research found no local ICE contract for Tygart Valley, so immigration custody is presented only as a possible receiving-agency path, not as a routine facility program.
Travel After Tygart Valley Release
Tygart Valley's published visitation rules state that there is no local transportation or bus service and that the nearest taxi is in Elkins. That source describes the facility area. It does not establish a release pickup service, an exit door, a set release hour, or a guaranteed taxi.
Country Roads Transit serves the Upshur and Buckhannon area, but no official source documents a scheduled stop for Tygart Valley releases. Confirm the event, time, and pickup instructions with the facility. Then confirm service with the transportation provider. If the DCR record shows a transfer, follow the receiving facility instead of planning a community pickup.
Tygart Valley Alerts and Photos
West Virginia VINE covers all ten regional jails, including Tygart Valley. It can support a person-specific status check and notifications through available channels. A transfer may also cause a custody-change event. WVDCR says transfer notice follows arrival rather than movement, so a short delay can occur. Confirm any notice with DCR or the court.
A current OIS detail may display an offender photograph. Tygart Valley has no verified release-photo gallery. The image identifies a prior booking or custody episode, not the later exit. Ask WVDCR for the discrete booking photograph and ask the arresting Upshur agency separately whether it holds an arrest image. Each custodian applies the public-record law and relevant restrictions to its own copy.