USMS Contract Custody Paths
WVDCR’s FY2025 report says PHRJCF contractually houses federal detainees for USMS. The person remains in federal custody even though housed in a state-operated regional jail. A later move may go to another contract jail, court, BOP designation, or community release under a judge’s order.
There is no general USMS detainee locator. The durable public chronology is the federal docket, followed by the facility and receiving-custodian records.
| Event | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Contract-jail move | Federal custody continues | USMS and facility record |
| BOP designation | Sentenced federal custody | BOP locator |
| Court release | Depends on written conditions | Federal order |
Confirm a USMS Release
Search the PACER Case Locator for detention, bond, judgment, and release entries. Contact counsel or the district USMS office when public docket text does not show the current placement. After sentence, search BOP by register number.
- Identify the federal case number.
- Read the latest detention or release order.
- Ask PHRJCF whether the person departed and where the record routes.
- Check BOP after sentencing.
- Request the identified agency record when needed.
Request USMS Custody Records
Identify the federal case, person, date range, and known contract facility. Ask for existing custody and transfer fields rather than a new narrative. Operational and privacy limits may apply. The federal docket supplies the detention or release order, while PHRJCF records its own departure event.
After sentencing and BOP designation, direct prison-record questions to BOP. Keep each custodian’s dates separate so a contract-jail move is not described as community release.
A facility departure time and a federal court order can differ because staff must process the order and check for other holds. Preserve both. Ask whether the person went to the community or a named receiving custodian. USMS has no public nationwide locator, so a blank BOP result cannot fill that gap. Counsel and the district office remain case-specific routes.
For current location, rely on the office that presently holds custody. A contract jail can confirm its own departure but not a later release.
Federal detention status should always be confirmed from the case-specific authority.
USMS Custody Record Contact
Use the federal docket, counsel, or the district USMS office tied to the case. PHRJCF can route a request for the movement it recorded, but it cannot replace the federal order or USMS record.
U.S. Marshals ServiceFederal pretrial and transfer custody
No nationwide public detainee locator
Use the case-specific district office
Do not invent a detention location from a missing BOP result. BOP ordinarily becomes the locator route after federal sentencing and designation.
Mineral USMS Custody Context
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.
USMS 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 USMS Custody 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 USMS Custody 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.
USMS Release Order Evidence
A written federal release order can impose conditions even when physical detention ends. Read the order itself. A docket entry title may not include every condition or the exact processing time. When the order and facility status appear out of sync, note the retrieval times and ask the responsible office whether release processing or another hold remained.
USMS transfer data may be limited for safety and operational reasons. Request the existing departure date, custody authority, and receiving agency rather than a real-time transport plan. For an old case, give the full case number and known contract facility. That precision helps separate the PHRJCF episode from later BOP or other custody.