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Beckley Correctional Release Status

Beckley Correctional Center and Jail is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is associated with minimum-security and community-corrections functions. A person there follows a state correctional track even when the criminal case began in Raleigh County or another county. The statewide correctional offender record, not the current regional-jail roster, is the correct starting point.

Physical presence outside a secure building does not always mean the sentence has ended. Work release or another community placement can permit approved activity while WVDCR custody continues. Parole and mandatory supervision end confinement but continue legal supervision. Discharge means the sentence or supervision status has ended as recorded. Use the exact WVDCR label and date rather than reducing all four situations to “released.”

The sentencing county also may differ from the facility county. A person placed at Beckley Correctional Center can have a case from elsewhere in West Virginia. Search by state identifier and use the court named in the record. Raleigh County location alone does not make the underlying sentence a Raleigh case.

Find a Beckley Correctional Release

Open the WVDCR offender-search landing page and choose the correctional search. Search by legal name and any available state identifier. Open the full result. Depending on the record and current interface, fields may include institution, status, sentence data, parole eligibility date, and a minimum or projected discharge date. Copy each field label exactly.

A public offender result is a locator and status lead. It is not a certified discharge record. WVDCR warns that information can change quickly and may not show the true current location, release date, or status. If a past event is missing, use the record number to seek the underlying movement or discharge record.

1. Select the correctional offender search, not the regional-jail current-custody screen.
2. Search the full legal name and compare the WVDCR number or other identity fields.
3. Record the institution, status, status date, PED, and projected or minimum discharge label shown.
4. Check VINELink for a reported custody change, then seek direct records when the labels remain unclear.

“PED” means parole eligibility date. It is the first date a person may be considered under the applicable sentence, not a gate-release date. A projected date can change. A paroled status means supervision continues.

Note: Keep the displayed field names separate because parole eligibility, projected discharge, physical release, and full discharge answer different questions.

Beckley Correctional Release Records

The official Beckley Correctional Center and Jail page is the current source for facility identity and contact information. Operations and naming can change. The research does not establish a current street address, telephone number, or public office hours that should be copied here. Check the official page before a visit or call, and do not infer a release time or destination from an old listing.

For a durable record, request the nonexempt correctional movement, release, parole, or discharge entry from WVDCR. Include the full name, WVDCR number, facility, and a narrow date range. Ask for the status date, movement type, releasing authority, destination category, and the definition of any internal code. Request the current time computation when a public projected date is ambiguous.

West Virginia Code §29B-1-3 requires reasonable specificity and sets the public-record response duty. Electronic delivery can reduce copy cost. When part of a file is withheld, ask for the cited exemption and all reasonably segregable portions.

Beckley Correctional Parole Releases

The West Virginia Parole Board makes release decisions. WVDCR Parole Services supervises parolees and certain mandatory-supervision cases. Those roles are separate from Raleigh County Adult Probation, which is a court office for probation orders. A Beckley correctional record should not be routed to county probation merely because the facility sits in Raleigh County.

The Parole Board hearing information says facility hearings occur monthly for eligible inmates. Beckley Correctional Center hearings are generally handled by video, with an onsite exception described by the Board. A calendar entry shows scheduling, not the outcome. No official public, name-searchable database of individual Board decisions was located.

To verify parole, obtain the Board's exact action and check whether it is a grant, denial, deferral, contingent grant, or another ruling. Then compare the WVDCR offender status and VINE event. A grant may depend on program or home-plan tasks. Physical release and a decision date are not always the same.

Parole

Conditional release from confinement under WVDCR supervision.

Probation

A court-ordered supervision status managed through the Judiciary.

PED

The date eligibility for parole consideration begins, not a promised exit.

Discharge

The recorded end of the sentence or supervision obligation.

Beckley Correctional Facility Record

Raleigh County contains three very different correctional layers. Southern Regional Jail handles the state regional-jail path. Beckley Correctional Center and Jail is a WVDCR correctional and community facility. FCI Beckley is federal. A search based only on the word “Beckley” can send a person to the wrong database and produce a false release claim.

The official WVDCR page provides a visual check of the facility identity. View the state facility source before using its current details.

The captured source helps distinguish the Beckley state facility from the regional jail and federal institution. Confirm live contact and operational details on the source because a screenshot can age.

The safest test is the operator. WVDCR correctional records govern Beckley Center status. WVDCR regional-jail records govern Southern. BOP records govern FCI Beckley. The sentencing court remains the durable source for the underlying judgment in each state case.

Beckley Correctional Versus Federal Release

FCI Beckley is near the same Raleigh County community, but it is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Its inmates do not appear in WVDCR's state correctional search merely because the institution has “Beckley” in its name. A federal release belongs in the BOP Inmate Locator. Any later federal supervised release belongs with the sentencing docket or U.S. Probation.

By contrast, a Beckley Correctional Center status stays in the WVDCR evidence chain. Use the state record, VINE, Parole Board file when applicable, and the state sentencing docket. The FCI Beckley record page covers the federal method when the register number or federal case confirms BOP custody.

A person can also move between authorities. If a state record shows a transfer or detainer, identify the receiving agency before calling it release. Database absence never proves that no other custodian holds the person.

Note: The facility name identifies a place, while the operator determines the correct release locator and records custodian.

Beckley Correctional Discharge Evidence

Sentence records explain why a projected or actual discharge appears. Start with the judgment's term, effective date, concurrent or consecutive structure, and presentence jail days recognized by the court. For eligible adults in the Commissioner's custody, §15A-4-17 provides one day of good time for each eligible incarcerated day, including qualifying presentence time counted in the judgment. Exclusions, disciplinary loss or restoration, and other sentence events can alter the computation.

West Virginia's reviewed sources do not establish a blanket rule that all prisoners serve 85 percent. Do not apply that shortcut to a Beckley record. A new sentence, detainer, corrected presentence-time order, revocation, parole result, or data correction may move a displayed date. Request the current sentence-length or minimum-discharge statement when the public result is unclear.

The strongest discharge proof is a WVDCR-produced status or movement record matched to the offender number and backed by the sentencing file. VINE can confirm that a custody change was reported, but it does not calculate the sentence. A court order explains the legal term, though WVDCR supplies the actual correctional processing record.

Use VINE as a second state channel, not as a replacement for the offender file. West Virginia VINE covers WVDCR correctional facilities and can report a custody-status change when the agency sends it. Save the agency name, location, exact status wording, and status date. A delayed alert can follow a source update, and some transfer detail may not appear until arrival. If the public correctional result, VINE notice, and court file do not align, request the WVDCR movement history and the current time computation. That record can separate a change in placement from parole, mandatory supervision, or final discharge. It also keeps a change at Beckley Correctional Center from being mistaken for a Southern Regional Jail release.