Find Barbour County Released Inmates

Barbour County Release Meanings

A Barbour County release record documents an event involving one identified person and one custody episode. It should connect the booking or sentence to the date, legal authority, event type, and destination. That last field matters. A bond, dismissal, time-served disposition, sentence completion, or court order may end secure custody. A transfer to a prison, another jail, federal authorities, or an immigration hold does not put the person in the community.

WVDCR operates Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, while Barbour courts control many bond and sentencing decisions. The sheriff may be the arresting agency. These roles create separate records. The facility movement entry shows what physically happened, and the court order explains the legal cause. For a state sentence, the WVDCR FY2025 report documents agency terms such as parole, court-order release, and discharge. Parole and conditional release end confinement while supervision continues. Discharge can mark the later end of the sentence or supervision.

Time served

A court credits time already spent in custody toward the sentence.

Transfer

A move between custodians or facilities, not a community release.

Parole

Community supervision after a prison release decision.

Discharge

The recorded end of a sentence or supervision obligation.

Note: A transfer closes one custody entry without ending custody, so the destination must be checked before reporting a release.

Barbour County Release Routes

Tygart Valley can record several outcomes for a person tied to Barbour County. The correct next search depends on the route. Never treat a missing roster name as the route itself. OIS is an operational custody system, and its disclaimer warns that location, status, and release data may lag or be incomplete.

A release code alone is not enough. WVDCR's statewide reports use many abbreviations and administrative categories. Request the individual event and any agency key needed to interpret it. Match the date to the same booking, sentence, and court case.

Barbour County Release Record Fields

A useful request identifies the person and a narrow date range. It also asks for the movement or release record rather than a broad inmate file. Not every field is public or applicable, but naming the needed fields helps the custodian locate a responsive record. A Barbour court file may hold the authority while Tygart Valley holds the event time.

Three dates must stay separate. Admission begins the episode. A minimum discharge or projected release date is a calculation that can change. The actual release date records what occurred. A parole eligibility date or hearing date is neither a promise nor proof of release.

Note: Request the actual event time and the calculated sentence date as separate fields when both may apply.

Request Barbour County Release Records

West Virginia FOIA §29B-1-3 permits a reasonably specific request to the records custodian. The office must respond within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, by providing the record, arranging inspection, or giving a written reason for denial. Reasonable actual copy costs may apply, but the statute does not allow search, retrieval, or labor fees under that section. No special Barbour release form or fixed release-record fee was found.

1. Identify the full name, birth data or offender number, approximate booking dates, and Barbour case number.
2. Ask Tygart Valley records at (304) 637-0382 for the designated FOIA custodian and current delivery method.
3. Request the nonexempt booking, movement, or release entry, including event time, type, authority, and destination category.
4. Ask the Barbour magistrate or circuit clerk for the order or docket record that supplied the legal authority.
5. Invite redaction, request a written exemption for withheld material, and ask for a cost estimate before copies are made.

The sheriff is the route for sheriff arrest, incident, or transport records. WVDCR and Tygart Valley hold the regional-jail custody records. Court clerks hold orders and docket documents. A narrow request sent to the correct custodian is more likely to produce the needed event.

Note: Ask for an advance copy-cost estimate because no fixed Barbour County release-record fee schedule was found.

Barbour County Release Record Limits

Public display is not a retention schedule. A name can disappear from a current interface while OIS, scanned legal files, movement logs, or court records remain. No verified public retention period was found for a Tygart Valley release entry. If the record cannot be located, ask which retention schedule applies, whether it was lawfully destroyed, and whether the same fact survives in a court file or Central Office system.

West Virginia FOIA permits redaction and includes exemptions for medical details, protected personal data, active investigative material, and security information. Juvenile, sealed, and expunged records have added limits. Under §61-11-26, qualifying convictions may be sealed and expunged after statutory requirements are met. A separate route under §61-11-25 can cover certain acquittals, dismissals, and diversion outcomes, including photographs. Eligibility depends on the case and court order.

Property After Barbour County Release

A release inquiry may also involve money or personal property held during confinement. West Virginia Code §15A-4-9(f) requires the superintendent at departure, or as soon as practicable, to deliver the person's property, money, and earnings. WVDCR policy uses identification and a receipt process for an authorized pickup.

Contact Tygart Valley promptly if property is missing. Give the booking identity, release date, item description, and any receipt number. Keep copies of requests and responses. The property issue does not establish whether the departure was a community release or a transfer, so verify the movement event separately.

Find Barbour County Released Inmates

Start with a full name, birth information, approximate date, arresting agency, and case number. Name-only matches are weak because one person can have several custody episodes. The strongest confirmation pairs a physical event record with its legal basis.

1. Search the WVDCR regional-jail OIS for the named person and review the institution and booking details.
2. Use WVDCR's prison search route if a sentence or transfer may have moved the person into a correctional institution.
3. Search the Barbour magistrate or circuit case for bond, dismissal, sentencing, probation, time served, commitment, or revocation.
4. Check West Virginia VINELink for the specific person and any reported custody change.
5. Call Tygart Valley and ask whether the booking ended by community release or transfer.
6. Request the release or movement entry when public search tools cannot settle the question.

The absence of an official all-person feed means the Barbour 24-hour release workflow also uses named-person checks. For a formal result, rely on the facility event and court or WVDCR record, not an empty search page.

Note: Use two sources that answer different questions, one for the physical event and one for its legal authority.

Barbour County OIS Release Search

WVDCR runs both West Virginia regional jails and state prisons, but the public routes serve different custody types. Begin with the regional-jail OIS for a Barbour arrest or short jail episode. A current Tygart Valley result points to custody or a recently updated operational record. For a person committed to a felony prison sentence, follow the correctional search route from the agency gateway.

OIS can show less than the internal time sheet or movement file. If a prison date is absent or disputed, request the current nonexempt time sheet. Do not calculate a date from sentence length. Jail credit, good time, consecutive terms, court corrections, detainers, and revocation can all alter the result.

Barbour County Court Release Proof

The official Barbour Circuit Court directory identifies the clerk and local court contacts. Use the Magistrate Case Record Search for lower-court matters and the West Virginia Judiciary gateway for circuit records. A magistrate result can show case ID, charges, bond, disposition, event history, and sentence entries. The portal does not supply the underlying documents.

The official court access gateway shows the routes available for West Virginia case records.

The screen helps locate the right court system, while the clerk remains the source for a signed order or copy.

A bond entry or release order may establish authority, but Tygart Valley supplies the actual event time. A dismissal on one charge does not clear another hold. A commitment order means transfer to WVDCR custody, not community release. Pair the docket with the facility record.

Note: Court portal entries are indexes; obtain the signed order from the clerk when exact release terms matter.

Barbour County Recent Release Gaps

No official Barbour County Sheriff or Tygart Valley rolling 24-hour or 72-hour released-person list was identified. The state Daily Incarcerations product covers admissions and current-custody activity. It must not be relabeled as a release list. Its fields can include time, name, birth date, gender, and a detail link, but those fields describe entry or custody context.

VINELink can send an alert for one registered person. It is not an all-person release feed. No verified Barbour Sheriff or WVDCR app publishes such a list. For recent events, check OIS, VINE, the Barbour docket, and Tygart Valley. For older events, request the named movement record because online visibility has no stated release-record retention window.

Note: Daily Incarcerations may help explain admissions, but it must never be presented as a list of people released.

Barbour County Community Release Reporting

Barbour County Community Corrections is a day-report and community-based program, not a jail or parole office. The county documents bond supervision, pretrial diversion, misdemeanor and felony supervision, electronic monitoring, treatment, education, and a reintegration component. It began in 2007 and moved to Court Street in 2011.

A court may place a person there after secure confinement ends. Confirm that status through the sentencing or release order and the program. Do not infer it from disappearance from OIS. Probation, community corrections, parole, and final discharge each have different record custodians and duties.

The program operates at 85 Court Street in Philippi and publishes three telephone routes: (304) 457-3100, (304) 457-3483, and (304) 457-4715. A caller should have the court case, order date, and identifying details ready. Staff may limit information about a participant, but the order can confirm the kind and term of supervision. Electronic monitoring or day reporting means the person is no longer in a secure jail cell, yet it does not mean the court case has ended.

Barbour Probation is a separate court office at P.O. Box 541 in Philippi, telephone (304) 457-3913. For probation, begin with the sentencing order and that office. For parole after a prison sentence, begin with WVDCR and Parole Services. Keeping these channels apart prevents a community-corrections placement from being mislabeled as parole or full discharge.

Barbour County Release Travel Planning

Tygart Valley's official rules state that no local transportation or bus service is available and that the nearest taxi is in Elkins. The facility is about seven miles west of Elkins. Those visitation details show why pickup plans should be confirmed, though they do not promise a release time, exit, or ride.

Family or another permitted contact should ask staff for the actual event time and approved waiting instructions. A projected date can change, and a person may leave Tygart Valley for another institution rather than the community. WVDCR Policy 457.09 governs release transportation, but no public Barbour-specific pickup point was found.

Barbour County Federal Release Branches

Federal and immigration locators apply only when facts support that custody branch. The BOP Inmate Locator can show a federal historical release date and a “RELEASED” location for covered records. The BOP record explanation defines those results and their historic coverage. A BOP release does not rule out supervised release or another agency's custody.

The ICE detainee locator covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody within a limited recent window. If Tygart Valley records a departure on an immigration detainer, treat it as a transfer until ICE status or another record shows community release. Reconcile the jail movement quickly because the ICE locator is not a permanent archive. A federal pretrial person held for the U.S. Marshals Service may not appear as a sentenced BOP inmate.

Barbour County Release Source Comparison

Each system answers a different question. Using the wrong one can turn a transfer into a false release claim. The table keeps current custody, legal authority, supervision, and historic federal status apart.

Can a court result alone prove the time of release? Usually not. The court supplies the authority, while the facility event supplies the actual departure or transfer time.

Tygart Valley Release History

Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility opened in June 2005. Although it has a Belington mailing address, WVDCR identifies it as physically located in Randolph County. It serves Barbour and several other counties and also houses many female jail inmates awaiting transfer to prison.

The official facility page documents its identity and regional role.

That combined jail and correctional role makes a second WVDCR search vital when a name leaves the regional-jail view.

The Tygart Valley release records page covers the facility contact, movement record, transportation limits, and release verification route. It is the only detention-facility page in the Barbour County map because no county-operated jail or qualifying prison was identified inside Barbour County.