Summers County Same-Day Release Gap
Neither the Summers County Sheriff's Office nor the official Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility page publishes a Summers County 24-hour release list. The sheriff is the local arresting and process-serving office. It does not operate the regional jail. WVDCR operates Southern Regional Jail in Beaver and maintains the custody record. Its public menu offers active jail and prison searches plus Daily Incarcerations, but Daily Incarcerations concerns admissions or current custody. It must not be relabeled as a same-day release feed.
A 24-hour list would normally group custody-exit transactions by release time. No verified public field set, posting schedule, or retention period exists here. That means there is no official page from which to copy names for a local roundup. A newly absent result also has several possible meanings. The person may have been released on bond, moved to a state prison, transferred to another agency, or passed through an update gap.
The decisive evidence is the WVDCR release or movement transaction, read with the Summers County court order that supplied legal authority. An order may be entered before jail staff finish physical discharge. A transfer record can end one booking while custody continues elsewhere.
Check Summers County 24-Hour Releases
Use a timestamped sequence for one person. The steps separate a live custody check from proof that someone left custody during the desired day. Start with a full name and any known date of birth, OIS number, booking number, arrest date, or Summers County case number. Similar names can produce a false match, and a photograph alone is not enough to establish identity.
- Open the official WVDCR Regional Jail Offender Search. Search by the fields shown and check whether the matching person is reported at Southern Regional Jail.
- If no jail result appears, use the prison-search route from the WVDCR offender-search gateway. A move from jail to prison is continued state custody, not community release.
- Check the West Virginia Magistrate Record Search for a current bond, dismissal, time-served, or other order tied to the Summers case. Felony disposition documents may instead require the Circuit Clerk.
- Review the matching person in VINELink. A status change or alert helps fix the sequence, but DCR says transfer notice may wait until arrival at the next facility.
- Call Southern Regional Jail for current operational information, then request the public release or movement transaction from WVDCR when the searches and court entry do not settle the question.
Record when each source was checked. If the court shows only an entered release order, describe it as “release ordered” until DCR confirms processing. For a broader named-person search across state, court, federal, and immigration channels, use the Summers County released inmate search.
Note: The current roster answers who is reported in custody now; the agency transaction answers whether and when a past custody episode ended.
Summers County Release Request Fields
Because no official Summers County release feed exposes a verified set of columns, the useful field table is a request inventory rather than a claim about an online list. Ask for fields that WVDCR already maintains for the Southern Regional Jail custody episode. Identify Summers as the charging or committing county because the regional jail serves seven counties.
| Requested field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Full name and OIS or booking number | Matches the release transaction to the correct person and custody episode. |
| Admission date and time | Marks the start of the distinct Southern Regional Jail booking. |
| Release date and time | Shows when WVDCR ended that custody episode, if a release occurred. |
| Exit type or release authority | Distinguishes bond, court order, parole, discharge, transfer, or another recorded event. |
| Releasing facility | Confirms that the transaction belongs to Southern Regional Jail rather than another institution. |
| Destination category | May show whether the person entered the community or continued in another agency's custody, subject to redaction. |
Ask for the plain-language legend when WVDCR supplies an exit code. A short code can be misunderstood without the definition in effect on the transaction date. The court order remains a separate record. It can show why release was authorized, while the DCR timestamp shows when the jail completed its part.
Summers County Release Evidence
A focused written request is the fallback when there is no feed. Address a WVDCR records request to the Commissioner as records custodian at 1409 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311. Give the person's full name, known date of birth, OIS or booking number, Southern Regional Jail, the approximate release range, and the Summers County case number. Ask for the admission and release or movement transaction, release authority, public destination category, and any Order of Release held in the file.
West Virginia FOIA requires a reasonably specific request. Under W. Va. Code §29B-1-3, the public body must respond as soon as practicable and within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays. The response may produce the record, arrange inspection, or deny the request in writing. That rule is not a promise that a large production will be complete within five business days. Request electronic copies where they exist, plus redaction and release of the nonexempt remainder.
For urgent operational confirmation, contact Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility at 304-256-6726. Staff may limit what they disclose by telephone, so a call is not a substitute for a record. The Summers County Sheriff should receive only a request for its own arrest or incident papers. DCR is the custodian for the regional-jail exit record.
The Jail Releases: 72 Hours process is better when the desired period crosses several dates or includes a weekend.
Confirm Summers County Release Status
Custody status depends on the system that holds the person. A matching active Regional Jail OIS result reports present jail custody, subject to normal update lag. A matching prison result after the jail name disappears points to a WVDCR transfer. A court bond or dismissal entry states judicial action, but another hold can still delay community release. VINELink adds notice of a reported custody change. None of these, alone, replaces the release transaction.
| Source result | Careful reading | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| Active at Southern Regional Jail | Still reported in regional-jail custody | Recheck after the expected processing period |
| Absent from jail, present in prison search | Transferred within WVDCR | Use the prison record and DCR movement data |
| Release order entered | Release was authorized on that case | Confirm physical exit and check for other holds |
| VINE status changed | The reporting agency changed custody status | Confirm with DCR and the court record |
| No public match | No matching active result was found | Request the release or transfer record |
A federal detainee housed at Southern Regional Jail may be controlled by the U.S. Marshals Service. In that case, the federal docket or USMS supplies the next check. A DCR exit can also be a handoff to another authority. Use the committing agency and case number, not the building alone, to identify who controlled release.
Where Summers County Releases Occur
Summers County detainees are generally released from Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, not from a county jail in Hinton. The facility sits outside Summers County. That distance matters when a family member or friend is planning a same-day pickup. The official SRJCF page gives the facility address as 1200 Airport Road, Beaver, WV 25813, and the main telephone as 304-256-6726.
A facility-specific nonprofit supplement names New River Transit, Greyhound, Uber, and Lyft as possible area transportation options. It does not promise that any provider stops at the release door, runs at the needed hour, has space, or serves a particular destination. Call Southern Regional Jail first. Then confirm the pickup point, current schedule, fare, and availability with the carrier. Do not send a ride based only on the time a judge signed an order.
Physical discharge may finish after the court event. The release transaction supplies the actual custody-exit time. When transportation is time-sensitive, seek direct operational confirmation and allow for processing rather than treating the docket timestamp as a gate time.
Summers County Release Roster Quirks
The WVDCR menu can look broader than it is. Daily Incarcerations concerns admissions or incarceration data, while the jail and prison offender searches report active records. None is a verified Summers County archive of people released today. Keeping those categories separate prevents an admission list from being mistaken for a custody-exit list.
Transfer timing creates another trap. A person may vanish from the jail search before appearing in the prison channel. DCR also states that VINE does not call while an offender is physically being moved; the system gives transfer notice after arrival for safety and security. During that interval, two correct systems can appear to disagree.
Write down the source, search time, identifiers used, and exact wording shown. If the name is missing, preserve the finding as a negative active search. If a later prison result appears, describe a transfer. Only the WVDCR transaction or reliable facility confirmation supports a statement that the regional-jail custody episode ended at a specific time.
Note: Summers County has no confirmed sheriff release app, so use official DCR, court, VINE, and records-request channels for same-day checks.