No Raleigh 72-Hour Release Feed
No official Raleigh County or Southern Regional Jail rolling 72-hour release feed exists in the researched sources. The facility is state-operated by WVDCR, not a county sheriff jail. WVDCR publishes a current regional-jail search and a Daily Incarcerations or admissions-oriented report. Those tools do not present a released-person window for the last three days.
The official WVDCR regional-jail search remains useful for a current check, but its disclaimer says information changes quickly. No fixed update interval and no public post-release retention term were found. A name that appeared Friday and is gone Monday cannot be labeled a weekend release on that fact alone.
No Raleigh County Sheriff mobile app was verified for release or mugshot lookup. VINELink is the meaningful mobile status-notification route for WVDCR custody, but it is not a county release gallery and cannot be searched as a complete list of all people who left during a three-day span.
Check Raleigh County Three-Day Releases
A three-day inquiry benefits from looking backward through records that outlast a live screen. Start with a matched person and booking. Note every search date and use the same legal name, date of birth, OID, or case number across systems. The goal is not merely to find that someone is absent now. It is to identify an affirmative release event and the authority behind it.
- Check the WVDCR regional-jail result for the person’s current institution and status at the time searched.
- Search West Virginia VINELink and preserve the exact custody wording and status date.
- Review the Raleigh magistrate case search or obtain the circuit docket for an order entered during the three-day span.
- Call Southern Regional Jail and ask whether the person is held, transferred, or associated with a release transaction.
- Send WVDCR a narrow records request for the release or movement transaction covering the named booking and date range.
The records request is especially important for this wider period. By the third day, a current result may have changed or disappeared, but the agency’s movement history and court order remain the proper documentary trail. A same-day question can begin with the Raleigh County 24-hour release workflow.
Note: Match at least two identifiers before joining a Raleigh County court event to a WVDCR custody record.
What Raleigh 72-Hour Records Show
Since no public 72-hour feed exists, there is no official feed field set to reproduce. A proper three-day result is assembled from affirmative fields in agency records. The most useful document is a WVDCR release transaction or movement history for the named custody episode. It can be tested against the court docket and VINE event.
| Field | Use in a three-day review |
|---|---|
| Name and OID | Prevents a common-name match from being treated as final. |
| Booking or commitment date | Separates the relevant stay from an older or later admission. |
| Facility | Shows whether Southern Regional Jail or another WVDCR site handled the event. |
| Movement date and time | Places the processed custody change inside or outside the requested period. |
| Disposition or movement code | Separates release, transfer, remand, and other agency actions. |
| Release authority | Points to a court order, sentence completion, parole action, or other basis. |
| Case linkage | Allows the legal record to be checked for the controlling event. |
A destination category may be limited or withheld. Ask what a code means instead of translating it without agency confirmation. A date on a court order can precede the movement time, while a VINE notice can follow the source-agency update.
The field set also prevents a transfer from being mislabeled. Releasing facility states where the action was processed, while movement code and authority explain its nature. If those two fields are missing, the court event and roster disappearance still do not form a complete release record.
Raleigh Weekend Release Processing
A three-day search is useful around weekends because legal and physical events may fall on different days. A magistrate order or bond event can be entered before WVDCR completes its checks. Another case, capias, warrant, detainer, or transfer decision may also affect the exit. The wider window captures those steps without pretending that a public rolling list exists.
For Raleigh County cases, use the case number when contacting the Magistrate Clerk or Circuit Clerk. Ask for the docket sheet and the specific signed bond, dismissal, judgment, amended sentence, or discharge order. The clerk can provide the legal record but should not be asked to calculate a gate-release time or interpret the effect of another hold.
Southern Regional Jail serves seven counties. A weekend event for someone housed in Raleigh County may be controlled by a court in Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Summers, or Wyoming County. Follow the case and sentencing county rather than assuming the facility address makes Raleigh the legal custodian.
Note: No sourced rule promises that weekend Raleigh releases appear online by a fixed hour or on the next business day.
Raleigh Three-Day Roster Changes
The official current interface can change for reasons other than community release. A person may transfer from Southern Regional Jail to another regional jail, a state correctional institution, USMS custody, or another jurisdiction. A spelling correction, merged record, search mismatch, or conversion issue can also change what a search returns. These are the Raleigh-specific data risks behind the absence of a verified 72-hour archive.
Comparing saved rosters across three days magnifies those risks. It may show that a record is no longer displayed, but it cannot supply the release time, type, authority, or destination. Publishing the difference as a release list would state more than the evidence proves. Only a WVDCR transaction expressly marked as release, matched to the person and booking, can supply that administrative fact.
Court records answer a different question. They show the order, bond, disposition, sentence, or dismissal that may explain why detention ended. Pair the order with the agency movement record. When the two dates differ, report both as separate events rather than selecting the date that best fits an assumed story.
Request Raleigh Three-Day Release Records
A focused West Virginia FOIA request can ask WVDCR for the release transaction or movement history instead of demanding all inmate records. Identify the person, OID if known, booking or commitment date, Southern Regional Jail, and the exact three-day span. Request the processed date and time, movement or disposition code, release authority, and case linkage, subject to lawful redaction.
- State that the request concerns one named custody episode at Southern Regional Jail.
- Give the full legal name, OID or date of birth, and booking date if known.
- Define the beginning and ending dates of the 72-hour period.
- Ask for the release or movement transaction and definitions for any disposition codes.
- Request an electronic copy when available and ask for a cost estimate before reproduction.
West Virginia Code section 29B-1-3 requires enough specificity to identify the record, provides a response duty measured in business days, and permits actual reproduction costs. The Raleigh research found no universal WVDCR per-page amount, so do not assume one. Security, personal, or law-enforcement material may be withheld under applicable exemptions while the nonexempt release fields remain the target.
Raleigh Release Systems After Three Days
A regional-jail release, a state-prison discharge, and a federal release are recorded in different systems. Southern Regional Jail exits belong to WVDCR’s regional movement record, VINE, and the controlling court. A person moved into Beckley Correctional Center or another WVDCR institution is still in state custody, even if absent from the regional-jail result. The correctional offender record is the proper state-prison track.
FCI Beckley is federal. A past release date and location marked released in the BOP Inmate Locator answers whether the person remains in BOP custody, but not whether federal supervised release continues. A short-term station-house release may be confirmed by the arresting police or sheriff office and the court. If a local arrestee was committed to Southern Regional Jail, WVDCR becomes the custody source.
A possible immigration transfer creates another boundary. An exit from WVDCR followed by ICE custody is not an unconditional community return. Use the federal immigration locator only when there is an actual reason to test that custody path, and keep the WVDCR movement record as the proof of what the state agency recorded.
| Custody path | Durable release evidence |
|---|---|
| Southern Regional Jail | WVDCR movement transaction plus court authority |
| WVDCR correctional facility | Correctional offender record and sentence or parole file |
| FCI Beckley | BOP locator and federal sentencing docket |
| Local police holding | Arresting-agency record and magistrate or municipal case |
For one named person across all Raleigh custody tracks, the Raleigh County release-record search path organizes the state, court, notification, and federal sources.