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Southern Regional Jail Overview

Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. WVDCR places it in Beaver, Raleigh County, and identifies it as the regional jail serving Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming counties. That regional role is the key fact for Monroe County custody. Monroe County has sheriff, magistrate, prosecutor, and court offices in Union, but the research did not locate a separate Monroe County jail building or county-run online roster.

The WVDCR facility page says Southern Regional Jail was built in 1994. The agency's FY2025 annual report describes the facility as a place of detention for pretrial felons and misdemeanants, sentenced felons and misdemeanants, and federal detainees held by contract for the U.S. Marshals Service. In plain terms, the Southern Regional Jail inmate population can include people waiting for court, people serving short jail sentences, people awaiting transfer, and some federal pretrial detainees. It is not the same system as a state prison, and it is not a federal prison.

Southern Regional Jail Capacity

The best official facility-level figures in the research come from WVDCR annual reports. The WVDCR FY2025 Annual Report lists Southern Regional Jail with a rated population of 468. The same research summary gives a FY2025 average daily count of 542, FY2025 admissions of 4,976, and FY2025 releases of 4,760 for Southern Regional Jail. These numbers describe the whole seven-county regional jail, not Monroe County alone.

Older WVDCR reports provide useful trend points, but they should not be read as live jail counts. FY2020 listed Southern Regional Jail population at 629. FY2022 listed 557. FY2023 source text listed 506, and FY2024 source text listed 550. The Daily Incarcerations page also showed 8 admissions at Southern Regional Jail on July 2, 2026, but that was an admissions table, not a total population count. Monroe County-specific jail average daily population was not located in the official sources reviewed.

Monroe County Jail Lookup

Use the WVDCR Regional Jail offender search for a person currently held in regional jail custody at Southern Regional Jail. The search requires at least the first three letters of the last name, allows an optional first name, and uses CAPTCHA. Because the tool covers West Virginia regional jails, a full name helps narrow results. WVDCR also warns that location, release date, status, and other offender information can change fast, so the public result should be confirmed before a long trip.

1. Open the WVDCR Regional Jail offender search for current jail custody.
2. Enter at least three letters of the last name, then add the first name when known.
3. Complete the CAPTCHA and review results for Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility.
4. If the person is newly arrested, check WVDCR Daily Incarcerations by county and institution.
5. If the person has been sentenced to prison, switch to the WVDCR prison offender search.
6. For federal or immigration custody, use BOP, USMS, or ICE routing instead of the regional-jail search.

That routing matters for Monroe County inmates because Southern Regional Jail may house county arrestees and USMS detainees, while sentenced state prisoners move to a separate WVDCR prison system. A person in federal sentenced custody is searched through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. Immigration detention is searched through ICE Online Detainee Locator System. Federal pretrial custody can involve the U.S. Marshals Service Southern District of West Virginia, and Southern Regional Jail is documented as a USMS contract facility.

For a broader explanation of Monroe County jail records, the county roster path, and fallback channels, use the Monroe County jail inmate records page.

Southern Regional Jail Contact

Southern Regional Jail is the facility contact for custody confirmation, visitation scheduling, and facility-specific questions. Monroe County's sheriff can help with local arrest, warrant, and transport questions, but the public custody lookup runs through WVDCR. The Monroe County app and county website were not found to provide an app-only jail roster, warrant search, or inmate lookup feature.

WVDCR lists Curtis Dixon as superintendent in the facility source material reviewed. Public lobby hours, a local records counter schedule, parking rules, visitor lockers, ADA entrance details, and a facility-specific fee schedule were not located in the captured official text. For Monroe County local law-enforcement questions, the Monroe County Sheriff's Department page and the sheriff staff profile route users through the Monroe County Courthouse phone line.

Southern Regional Jail Visitation

Southern Regional Jail source material documents non-contact visits by request and scheduling. The inmate must submit SRJ form 5-0029. Each inmate is allowed one visit per month. A visit is 30 minutes unless the superintendent or chief correctional officer approves a longer visit at least 24 hours in advance. The visit group may be one adult with two minor children or two adults. Special visit requests go to the chief correctional officer, and proof may be required.

The research did not locate a day-by-day Southern Regional Jail visitation schedule, dress code text, visitor ID wording, holiday schedule, lockdown policy, or public parking directions in the official captured material. Visitors from Monroe County should confirm the appointment, entry rules, and allowed items before leaving for Beaver. Statewide WVDCR material says the division uses GettingOut for calling and video visits, so that is the documented video channel unless Southern Regional Jail gives a different current instruction.

Note: Confirm custody and visit approval with Southern Regional Jail before travel because regional-jail status can change quickly.

Southern Regional Jail Mail

WVDCR publishes statewide mail, banking, calling, and video service instructions that apply unless a facility gives a stricter local rule. The WVDCR mail page directs letters through a central mail address in Phoenix, Maryland, with the inmate's first and last name, OID, and full facility name. The research did not find a Southern Regional Jail local mailroom counter rule or local package rule on the official facility page.

For money deposits, WVDCR's banking page names ConnectNetwork and lists phone, web, and app deposit channels. For calls and video, WVDCR says GettingOut is the contracted provider. The official text captured for the research did not include call rates, remote video rates, kiosk fees, commissary spending limits, tablet access rules, or local payment-window hours for Southern Regional Jail. Do not infer those fees from other facilities.

Southern Regional Jail Booking

A Monroe County arrest may start with the sheriff's office, State Police, a municipal agency, DNR, or another law-enforcement body. If the person remains in custody, detention is routed through the West Virginia regional jail system. Intake at Southern Regional Jail can involve identity intake, property handling, a booking photograph and fingerprints where authorized by law and policy, medical or mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, phone access, and court-related custody updates.

West Virginia law also explains why regional routing can matter. W. Va. Code section 62-1-7 addresses arrests outside the charging county and transport to the regional jail serving that county if the person remains incarcerated after arraignment. Monroe County magistrates handle misdemeanor cases, felony preliminary hearings, fugitive initial rights, complaints, warrants, and bail setting. The jail record is a custody record. The court record shows the complaint, case number, bail order, hearing dates, charge status, and disposition.

Booking

The administrative intake record created after arrest and transport to jail.

Classification

The jail process for assigning housing and supervision based on custody needs and facility rules.

Detainer

A notice or hold from another agency or jurisdiction that can block release.

OID

The WVDCR offender ID number used in state correctional systems.

West Virginia Code section 15A-5-8 creates a $30 jail processing fee at initial booking for a person committed to be housed in jail by court order. If unpaid at booking, the fee may be deducted from later trust-account deposits under the statute. The fee is not a public search fee, and it does not mean a person can pay WVDCR to remove or hide a custody record.

Directions to Southern Regional Jail

Southern Regional Jail is not in Monroe County, so visitors from Union, Peterstown, Alderson, or the Lewisburg side should plan for a trip to Beaver in Raleigh County. WVDCR's Lewisburg approach says to take I-64 West toward Beckley, use Airport Road Exit 125, turn right at the stop sign, proceed on Airport Road for one-quarter mile, and turn right at 1200 Airport Road. From Charleston, WVDCR directs drivers toward Beckley on I-64 East and I-77 South, notes toll booths, then routes traffic to Airport Road and the facility entrance.

The facility page did not publish public-transit directions, visitor entrance maps, public parking rules, locker rules, accessibility entrance details, or typical wait times in the captured text. Because Southern Regional Jail visitation is scheduled and non-contact, the safest route is to confirm the visit before travel, confirm that the person is still at the facility, and ask about current entry rules. Facility operations, lockdowns, court movement, or transfer to another WVDCR facility can change a visit plan.

Southern Regional Jail Conditions

Recent news and litigation are part of the sourced context for Southern Regional Jail, but they should be read separately from official population statistics. Associated Press reporting from December 23, 2023 described an inmate death at Southern Regional Jail and noted scrutiny from lawsuits citing inmate deaths and poor living conditions. AP also reported that state corrections investigators and West Virginia State Police opened an investigation after that death.

Associated Press reporting from November 2023 covered guilty pleas by two former Southern Regional Jail correctional officers in a federal case related to the fatal assault of Quantez Burks, a pretrial detainee. The research also notes a state settlement of a class-action lawsuit over claims that included lack of food and water, overcrowding, and fights. Those reports are serious facility-history context, but they are not capacity counts and should not be used as a substitute for WVDCR annual-report figures.

WVDCR's FY2025 annual report describes agency-wide facility upgrades and modernization, including electronic security system projects at regional jails and correctional facilities. The captured annual-report text did not line-item Southern Regional Jail's installation status, so the facility page should not claim that a specific upgrade has been completed at Southern Regional unless WVDCR later publishes that detail. Statewide WVDCR law and annual-report material does support a general corrections framework for health care, mail, telephone use, visitation, legal access, education, counseling, and sanitation.