Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Inmate Lookup

Southern Regional Jail Overview

West Virginia DCR's official Southern Regional Jail page identifies Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility as the regional jail serving Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming Counties. The building is at 1200 Airport Road in Beaver, Raleigh County, so Wyoming County families may need to travel outside the county for a visit or facility business. The operator is the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, not the Wyoming County Sheriff as a separate county jail operator.

The facility was built in 1994. The current official facility page lists Curtis Dixon as superintendent. WV DCR describes Southern Regional Jail as a jail and correctional facility for pretrial felons and misdemeanants, sentenced felons and misdemeanants, and federal detainees housed under contract for the U.S. Marshals Service. That mix matters. A person arrested in Pineville, Oceana, Mullens, or another Wyoming County area may still be searched through the regional jail system rather than a local sheriff roster.

The official facility source screenshot below comes from the WV DCR Southern Regional Jail facility page, which is the source for the address, phone numbers, counties served, superintendent, and visitation rules.

Use that official page for facility-level details, then use the offender search pages for current roster or custody lookups.

Southern Regional Jail Population

No current official rated bed capacity was located on the Southern Regional Jail facility page. For that reason, capacity should be treated as unknown rather than estimated. The best sourced facility population figures are WV DCR's FY2023 report values and the Prison Policy Initiative's Census 2020 correctional population reference. The Census/PPI number is useful context, but it is not a current bed capacity.

Wyoming County-only jail population is not published as a separate current count in the research reviewed because the facility serves seven counties. WV DCR's FY2023 breakdown also shows that Southern Regional Jail held a mix of pretrial, sentenced, DOC, and federal detainee categories. A roster result should therefore be read as a custody snapshot, not as proof of conviction or final sentence.

Southern Regional Jail Roster Lookup

For a current Wyoming County jail inmate, start with WV Regional Jail Offender Search. The name search requires at least the first three letters of the last name and uses a captcha. For a very recent booking, use WV Daily Incarcerations, choose Wyoming County when using the county dropdown, and check Southern Regional Jail admissions when that institution appears.

1. Open the regional jail name search for people still in jail custody.
2. Enter at least three letters of the last name, then add a first name if the result set is too broad.
3. Check Daily Incarcerations for arrests from today or the prior day, since recent admissions may be easier to find there.
4. Confirm that the facility shown is Southern Regional Jail and that the name and birth date fit the person being searched.
5. Call the jail if the search is urgent, recent, or conflicts with court or family information.

The WV regional jail inmate search form is shown below. It is the main public search path for Wyoming County inmates in regional jail custody.

If that search does not show the person, the issue may be spelling, timing, release, transfer, or custody type. The state disclaimer says roster data changes quickly and may not reflect the true current location or release status.

Wyoming County Custody Types

Southern Regional Jail is the main facility for Wyoming County regional jail custody, but not every inmate search belongs in the same database. County and regional jail custody usually covers people held before trial, people serving jail sentences, and some sentenced people waiting for transfer. State prison custody begins after a sentence is committed to WV DCR prison placement, though the person may remain in a regional jail for a period while awaiting space. Federal custody is separate again.

West Virginia VINE is also available for custody and criminal case notifications. It is best used as a notification tool after a person has been found, not as the sole roster search.

Note: A jail roster entry is not a conviction record. Court records must be checked for filed charges, bond orders, dismissals, pleas, and sentencing.

Southern Regional Jail Contact

Facility contact should be used for custody confirmation, visitation scheduling, professional visit instructions, and questions that the public roster cannot answer. The Wyoming County Sheriff still has a role in arrests, prisoner transport, and court security, but the facility itself is run by WV DCR.

Visitors from Wyoming County should confirm the visit before leaving for Beaver. WV DCR publishes official highway directions from Charleston and Lewisburg, but no separate Pineville, Oceana, or Mullens route was published in the facility source. Use the official address and confirm road conditions when travel may be affected by weather.

Southern Regional Jail Visits

Southern Regional Jail publishes non-contact visitation rules rather than a public weekly calendar. Inmates must submit a request using SRJ form 5-0029. Visits must be scheduled before the visitation day, and the official scheduling number is (304) 256-6738. No public weekly hour table, dress code, locker policy, or attorney visit schedule was located in the text-accessible official pages reviewed.

Visits longer than the normal time require approval at least 24 hours in advance. Special visit requests for unusual circumstances go to the Chief Correctional Officer. Proof may be required, so callers should ask what documents are needed before travel.

Southern Regional Jail Money

WV DCR offender services identify statewide vendors for calling, video, and deposits. The WV DCR calling and video visit page says the Division has contracted with GettingOut for inmate calling and video visits. The WV DCR offender banking page lists phone, web, and app deposit channels through ConnectNetwork.

The screenshot below comes from WV DCR's calling and video visit page, which names GettingOut as the contracted provider for inmate calls and video visits.

That source supports using GettingOut for communication questions, while facility staff should still confirm whether a specific inmate can place calls or receive video visits.

The next screenshot comes from WV DCR's offender banking page, which lists ConnectNetwork deposit paths by phone, web, and app.

Use the banking source for the available deposit channels, but rely on the vendor screen for current transaction fees before payment.

The screenshot below comes from ConnectNetwork's WV DCR facility services page, which lists Southern Regional Jail among West Virginia facilities and shows service categories such as phone and trust fund options.

Exact current deposit, phone, and video fees were not located in the official WV DCR pages reviewed. Do not send funds until the vendor identifies the person and displays the fee and payment details.

Southern Regional Jail Booking

A Wyoming County arrest may begin with the Wyoming County Sheriff, a municipal police department, West Virginia State Police, or another law enforcement agency. County materials say the sheriff secures and transports prisoners, while the prosecutor handles criminal charging work in magistrate and circuit court. After transport to the regional jail, WV DCR creates the jail admission record and the person may appear through Daily Incarcerations or the regional jail offender search.

The accessible Daily Incarcerations admissions summary showed admission time, last name, first name, middle name, birth date, gender, and a View Details link. Charges, bond, mugshot, housing, arresting agency, and court date were not confirmed from the direct admissions-summary table reviewed. For formal charges and court events after booking, use magistrate or circuit court records rather than treating the jail screen as the final court record.

Basic custody terms help prevent misreads:

Pretrial detainee

A person held before conviction or case resolution.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency, court, parole authority, ICE, or federal authority.

Remand

A court order sending or returning a person to custody.

Classification

The jail process used to set custody level, housing, and security restrictions.

Southern Regional Jail Conditions

Facility-specific program details were limited in the official public pages reviewed. WV DCR links to a Southern Regional Jail resource guide, but the PDF available during research was scanned and not text-extractable in the working environment. WV DCR statewide materials identify PREA reporting, constituent services, inmate grievance review, medical oversight functions, banking, calling, and video visit services that apply across the state system.

Southern Regional Jail has also been the subject of serious public reporting and litigation. Research identified AP News reporting from November 2, 2023 about two officers pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge tied to the fatal assault of pretrial detainee Quantez Burks, who died in March 2022 after booking. Later reports described litigation and settlement activity involving jail conditions. These items are context for facility conditions, but current custody, visitation, and account questions still need to be verified through WV DCR or court records.