Find PHRJCF Release Records

PHRJCF Release Paths

Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, commonly shortened to PHRJCF, holds both pretrial defendants and sentenced prisoners from its five-county service area. A Mineral County defendant can leave after bond, release on conditions, dismissal, completion of a local sentence, parole, or discharge. Each route has a different legal source. A bond or dismissal order comes from the court. WVDCR records the physical departure. Parole requires a board decision plus later release processing.

Departure does not always mean freedom in the community. WVDCR may move a sentenced person to another state institution. A detainer, which is a request from another authority to hold or receive a person, may lead to a federal, out-of-state, or other lawful transfer. The release record should identify the release type, authority, time, and destination or receiving custodian. Those fields resolve what a bare roster change cannot.

Confirm a PHRJCF Release

Start with the WVDCR Offender Information Search. Search the person rather than relying only on the Mineral County filter, because the institution is physically in Hampshire County. Compare the offender or booking number, date of birth or age, location, booking date, and charge details. OIS is an initial check. Its disclaimer warns that location, status, and release data may not be current, and a fully discharged person may produce no result.

Then check the same person in West Virginia VINE through VINELink. VINE covers all ten regional jails and WVDCR prisons. Quote its precise event and the time checked. A transfer notice is continued custody. A release notice is useful evidence, but WVDCR remains the record custodian. The Mineral County magistrate or circuit file can supply the bond, dismissal, sentence, credit, probation, or revocation order that explains the legal authority.

1. Search OIS by exact name and any known offender number.
2. Compare identity and facility details before selecting a record.
3. Check VINELink for the matching person and exact event wording.
4. Locate both magistrate and circuit cases when the case path is unclear.
5. Request the release and movement fields from WVDCR for final confirmation.

Request PHRJCF Release Records

A focused West Virginia Freedom of Information Act request should identify the person and custody episode. Give the full name, aliases, date of birth if known, approximate booking and departure dates, offender or booking number, and Mineral County as the committing or sentencing county. Ask for existing admission, movement, release, transfer, sentence-computation, and discharge records. Do not ask WVDCR to create a new account of whether the person was free.

Useful fields include booking date and time, committing agency, charges, custody location, release date and time, release authority, release type, destination, receiving custodian, property acknowledgment, and any retained booking photograph. Ask for electronic copies and reasonably segregable nonexempt fields. Under WV Code §29B-1-3, the custodian must take one of the allowed responses as soon as practicable and within five days excluding weekends and legal holidays. That period is a response deadline, not a guarantee that all records will be produced by then.

If a denial or redaction occurs, ask for the cited exemption and the nonexempt remainder. WVDCR may route jail material and offender legal records to different units. The public OIS display has no published retention period for released bookings, but an administrative record may still exist after a public result disappears.

PHRJCF Release Contact

The official facility page supplies the main contact for custody direction and record routing. Call the main number, not the separate non-contact visitation scheduling line, and ask for the correct unit. Telephone disclosure can be limited. Record the call date and time, then seek the written movement record when the exact release type or destination matters.

The official PHRJCF facility page confirms the address, contact details, operator, and counties served. The matched page image preserves that source context.

The facility page is a contact and identity source, not a public archive of past releases.

Mineral Releases, Hampshire Location

PHRJCF is in Augusta in Hampshire County, yet it officially serves Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton counties. That split can cause a search error. Mineral County describes the committing court or arrest source, while Hampshire County describes the jail’s physical location. WVDCR supplies the statewide record and offender number. One person can validly have all three references.

The FY2025 annual report gives PHRJCF a rated population of 312 and describes its pretrial and sentenced felony and misdemeanor mission. Capacity is not a live population count. It also does not state how many releases involved Mineral County. Use it only to understand the facility, not to infer a county release total.

PHRJCF Federal Transfer Records

WVDCR’s FY2025 report says PHRJCF contractually houses federal detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service. That makes a federal handoff especially important in Mineral County release research. A person can leave the Augusta building but remain detained before trial, move to another contract facility, or enter BOP custody after sentence. None is community release.

Search the federal docket through PACER Case Locator for detention, release, judgment, and transfer context. For a sentenced federal prisoner, search the BOP locator by register number or full identity. ICE should enter the inquiry only when a documented immigration detainer or handoff exists. No official source in the research establishes PHRJCF as an ICE contract facility.

Note: Always ask for the receiving custodian because a PHRJCF departure can mark the start of another agency’s custody.

Historic PHRJCF Release Records

Older WVDCR history shows that Eastern Regional Jail once served several eastern counties before PHRJCF opened and the counties shifted their prisoners. The year of arrest therefore matters. An old Mineral County booking should not be assigned to PHRJCF merely because PHRJCF serves the county now.

Give WVDCR the arrest year, court case number, and known dates, then ask it to route the request to the historical facility or record custodian. The court file can provide a durable second trail. A dated bond, sentence, dismissal, or jail-credit order can narrow the likely custody period even when a former jail record is no longer visible online. This historical routing issue is specific to the Potomac Highlands and can save a request from reaching the wrong records unit.

Read PHRJCF Status Terms

Release labels should be copied exactly. Parole is conditional community release from a state sentence. Probation is a court-ordered community sentence or disposition. Discharge means the sentence or supervision term ended. Transfer means another custodian took charge. A projected release date is a calculation and may change. Escape is an unauthorized absence and is never a release.

Release

A recorded departure to the community under lawful authority.

Transfer

A move between custodians while confinement continues.

Detainer

A request that another authority hold or receive a person.

Discharge

Completion of the identified sentence or supervision term.

For a broader named-person search and the full Mineral County record path, use the Mineral County released inmates search. The facility record still controls the exact PHRJCF departure.