Why This Guide Exists
Kanawha County has no county-operated adult jail roster. The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation operates South Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility and maintains its booking and movement records. Magistrate and circuit court records may explain the legal authority for release, while WVDCR records show what happened in custody. State parole records, court-administered probation information, VINELink notices, and federal or immigration locators may matter after a person leaves one system. This site organizes those separate sources without treating any one search result as complete proof.
What Readers Can Find
The guides focus on practical routes to official information:
- The home page provides the full released-inmate search and release-record request path.
- Facility pages give official contact details and explain the distinct role of South Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, Charleston Correctional Center and Jail, and James H. “Tiger” Morton Juvenile Center. The juvenile page preserves confidentiality boundaries and does not offer adult-style juvenile search instructions.
- Topic guides cover Projected Release, VINELink Inmate Search, and Probation & Parole.
- Records guidance explains how to ask WVDCR for a booking packet, movement entry, release information, or booking photograph, and how West Virginia FOIA response rules apply.
Limits of This Private Resource
Kanawha County Released Inmates is privately run. It has no connection to a West Virginia government agency, sheriff, jail, court, parole office, or corrections department.
- We cannot release, detain, or transfer a person.
- We cannot post bond, arrange visits, or send funds for a visitor.
- We do not provide legal advice or interpret a court order for an individual case.
- We cannot promise that an agency’s phone number, fee, office hours, or database display will never change.
Only the agency holding the person or maintaining the record can confirm present custody, an actual movement, charges, or release. This site explains where to check, but it cannot make that official determination.
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