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Southern Regional Jail Inmate Overview

The official WVDCR Southern Regional Jail page identifies the facility as a regional jail and correctional facility operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming counties. For Greenbrier County, that means the main jail custody path runs through a state regional jail in Beaver rather than a jail operated by the Greenbrier County Sheriff. The sheriff may arrest, investigate, transport, or hold local records for sheriff-handled incidents, but the public jail roster and facility rules are WVDCR systems.

Southern Regional Jail holds a mixed jail population. The WVDCR annual report classifies adult regional jails by legal status, including pretrial misdemeanants, convicted misdemeanants, pretrial felons, convicted felons, DOC inmates, and some federal pretrial or sentenced categories. Those labels describe why a person is in custody. A pretrial detainee is held before the criminal case is resolved. A convicted misdemeanant is serving a jail sentence. A sentenced felon may later move into state prison custody, where the DOC locator becomes the better search tool.

The regional setup is important for Greenbrier County inmate records. A person can be arrested in Lewisburg, Rupert, White Sulphur Springs, or another part of the county, then appear under Southern Regional Jail in the state jail search. A later court sentence or program placement can move that person out of the jail roster and into a state correctional record.

Southern Regional Jail Population Data

The official Southern Regional Jail facility page does not publish a rated bed capacity. The best sourced figures in the Greenbrier County research are dated population and flow measures, not a capacity statement. The WVDCR FY2025 Annual Report lists Southern Regional Jail with an average daily count of 542, 4,976 admissions, and 4,760 releases for the fiscal year. The WV Daily Incarcerations table showed 8 Southern Regional Jail admissions on July 2, 2026. A Prison Policy Initiative and Census correctional-population table listed a historical count of 512 in a 2010-era context.

These figures should not be read as a Greenbrier-only jail count. Southern Regional Jail serves seven counties, so the facility population includes people whose cases began outside Greenbrier County. The county dropdown in the Daily Incarcerations tool can help narrow daily admissions by county, but the research did not locate a public, stable Greenbrier-only population count for the jail. Use the source date with every number.

Southern Regional Jail Inmate Lookup

Use the WV Regional Jail Offender Search for active regional-jail custody. The jail search requires at least the first three letters of the last name, allows an optional first name, and uses a captcha before results display. Southern Regional Jail is not searched from the Greenbrier Sheriff website. For recent entries, the WV Daily Incarcerations page can show admissions by county or institution. Its visible Southern Regional Jail admissions table showed admission time, name fields, birth date, gender, and a details link during the research capture.

Search results can move quickly. WVDCR warns that location, release date, status, and related information may change and may not reflect the true current position of a person in custody. When a court sentence or transfer changes the custody system, the regional jail roster may stop being the right place to look. For a sentenced person in prison, parole, or active supervision, use the separate WVDCR DOC Offender Search.

1. Open the regional jail offender search for active jail custody.
2. Enter at least three letters of the last name, then add a first name if needed.
3. Complete the captcha and check whether the facility shown is Southern Regional Jail.
4. Use Daily Incarcerations to compare recent admissions by date, county, or institution.
5. Call the facility for time-sensitive custody confirmation when the online result is unclear.

For a broader walkthrough of Greenbrier custody records, the Greenbrier County jail inmate records page explains the jail roster, daily admissions, sheriff FOIA route, DOC locator, VINE, BOP, and ICE fallback paths.

Southern Regional Jail Contact Details

The facility contact block should be used for custody confirmation, visitation scheduling, and questions about current facility procedures. The official WVDCR page lists Curtis Dixon as superintendent. The same page gives a separate visitation scheduling number, which matters because family visits must be scheduled in advance. Greenbrier Sheriff records questions are different. The sheriff FOIA process applies to records maintained by the sheriff for sheriff-handled incidents, not to every WVDCR jail record.

Directions from Lewisburg are direct in the official source: take I-64 west toward Beckley, use Airport Road Exit 125, turn right at the stop sign, travel about one-quarter mile on Airport Road, then turn right at 1200 Airport Road. The facility page did not publish detailed parking rates, transit guidance, or a separate ADA entrance note, so visitors should confirm practical access details before leaving Greenbrier County.

Southern Regional Jail Visit Rules

Southern Regional Jail visitation is non-contact. The official rules state that the inmate must submit request for visitation using SRJ form 5-0029. That detail is important because visitors do not simply choose an open time without the inmate-side request process. The facility allows one adult and two minor children, or two adults, for a visit. The listed visit length is 30 minutes, and the frequency is one visit per inmate per month. All visits must be scheduled before the visitation day.

Special or longer visits need approval. The research notes that longer visits require prior approval at least 24 hours in advance from the superintendent or Chief Correctional Officer, and unusual-circumstance requests may require proof. Attorney visits were not published in the same official HTML page, so normal family visitation limits should not be applied to attorney access without direct facility confirmation.

Note: Confirm custody, approval, and the current visit slot before traveling from Greenbrier County to Beaver.

Southern Regional Jail Mail Money

WVDCR uses statewide channels for mail, phone and video, banking, and packages. Personal mail is centralized, so the envelope does not go to the jail street address. The WVDCR mail page gives a Phoenix, Maryland processing address and requires the inmate full first and last name, OID number, and full facility name with no abbreviations. The sender must use a full return address with first and last name. Initials are not enough. Photographs in an envelope are returned to sender under the published WVDCR mail rule.

Phone and video services are handled through GettingOut. Money deposits use ConnectNetwork by phone, web, or app, and the WVDCR banking source lists phone deposits at 888.988.4768. Union Supply Direct is the West Virginia package channel for approved jail and prison package ordering, and the order requires the WVDCR identification number. The research did not locate a Southern Regional Jail-specific fee table, kiosk schedule, or package rate sheet, so those rates should be checked with the vendor and facility before payment.

Southern Regional Jail Facility Image

The facility image shown comes from the official WVDCR Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility page, which is also the source for the address, phone numbers, counties served, directions, and visitation rules.

The image helps confirm that this Greenbrier County jail lookup points to a WVDCR regional facility, not a Greenbrier Sheriff jail building.

Southern Regional Jail Intake

Greenbrier County arrests can begin with the sheriff, a city police department, West Virginia State Police, or another agency. If the person cannot be released by citation, bond, or another local process, transport to Southern Regional Jail starts the WVDCR intake path. Intake can include identity checks, booking paperwork, property handling, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment. The research did not find a public Southern Regional Jail page that gives exact property-release hours or an exact public delay between booking and roster appearance.

The public record splits after intake. The Daily Incarcerations table is an admissions snapshot, while the offender search is used for active custody. Court charges, bond conditions, and later case outcomes should be checked through West Virginia Judiciary records because the jail search itself warns that sentencing information is not the official criminal-action record. A detainer, probation hold, parole hold, or federal hold may also affect release even if one case shows bond.

Admission

A new entry into a jail or institution, shown in the daily admissions table.

Detainer

A hold request from another agency or jurisdiction that can affect release.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before conviction or final case disposition.

OID

The WVDCR offender identification number used for mail, deposits, packages, and some searches.

Southern Regional Jail Conditions Reporting

Recent Southern Regional Jail news should be handled with dates and sources. AP reported in November 2024 that a former correctional officer pleaded guilty to a federal civil-rights violation in the death of Quantez Burks, who died less than a day after being booked into Southern Regional Jail in March 2022. AP also reported that the case drew scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the jail and referred to a state settlement over inmate mistreatment. Those reports are about litigation and criminal proceedings, not a substitute for current facility policy.

AP also reported a settlement in a lawsuit that alleged conditions problems at Southern Regional Jail, including claims about access to water and food, overcrowding, and unmanaged fights. The research instructions warn against presenting allegations as current conditions unless a current official source confirms them. For present-day custody, visitation, mail, or safety questions, use WVDCR facility channels and the official roster systems. For sheriff incident reports tied to a Greenbrier County arrest, use the Greenbrier Sheriff FOIA form for records the sheriff maintains.