Southern Regional Jail WV Mugshots: Search Recent Bookings the Right Way
To look for a recent Southern Regional Jail booking, start with the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation offender-search hub. Use Daily Incarcerations when the arrest is very recent, or Offender Search (Jails) when you know the person’s name and want to check current regional-jail custody.
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is in Beaver, Raleigh County. The facility serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties, so a person housed there may have a court case outside Raleigh County.
Start with the official West Virginia search
WV DCR provides the statewide entry point for Daily Incarcerations, jail offender search and prison offender search. This is the best first stop before using copied booking-photo pages or older arrest listings.
The useful workflow is custody search → facility confirmation → identity check → court follow-up.
How to Check Recent Southern Regional Jail Bookings
If the arrest happened today or very recently, begin at the WV DCR offender-search page and choose Daily Incarcerations. This route is designed for recent incarceration activity and is more useful for a fresh booking question than an old third-party mugshot page.
Search Southern Regional Jail by Name
Use Offender Search (Jails) from the WV DCR search hub when you know the person’s name. The state jail search is intended for people under active regional-jail supervision, so it is especially useful when the question is whether someone is currently in the West Virginia jail system.
What to compare
- Full booked name
- Date of birth or other birth information if displayed
- Photograph when available
- Facility name
- Booking or admission information
- Court or committing information when shown
What not to assume
- A same-name result automatically belongs to the person you mean.
- A booking photo proves guilt.
- An old arrest page proves current custody.
- The jail’s Raleigh County location means the criminal case is necessarily in Raleigh County.
How to Read a Mugshot or Booking Record
A booking entry is a custody record. It can help identify the person, jail and admission context, but it should not be treated as a final criminal-history summary.
A booking photograph is an identification image associated with custody. It does not establish guilt or a conviction.
This helps establish when the person entered custody. It does not necessarily show when the underlying incident occurred.
Confirm that the record identifies Southern Regional Jail if this is the facility you are researching.
Treat charge information as an allegation or custody basis. Check the appropriate court for later changes and disposition.
Custody can change through release, bond, transfer or another court order. Recheck the official system when timing matters.
Which Counties Use Southern Regional Jail?
WV DCR identifies Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility as serving seven southeastern West Virginia counties. Knowing the county connected to the arrest is important because court follow-up normally belongs with the county where the case was filed, not simply the county where the regional jail is located.
Check the Court Case After Finding a Jail Record
West Virginia Judiciary provides online access to both magistrate and circuit court record searches. The Magistrate Record Search can be searched by a first or last name or case number, and the Judiciary notes that the online system does not provide the underlying court documents themselves.
When you need copies of a specific magistrate court document, contact the magistrate court clerk in the county where the case was filed. This is also important when a jail entry and court record appear to differ, because the court clerk is the better source for the official case file.
| Task | Official route | What to verify |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh arrest | WV DCR Daily Incarcerations | Recent entry, facility and identity |
| Current jail custody | WV DCR Offender Search (Jails) | Name, facility and available custody details |
| Magistrate case | WV Judiciary Magistrate Record Search | Case number, charges, events and bond information when available |
| Circuit case | WV Judiciary Court Record Access | Whether the matter has moved into circuit court |
What If the Person Does Not Appear in Southern Regional Jail Search?
A missing result has several possible explanations. Do not immediately conclude that the arrest never happened or that an older mugshot page is more accurate than the state system.
Check search details first
- Try the exact legal spelling of the last name.
- Check whether the person may be listed under another surname.
- Allow for booking-processing time after a very recent arrest.
- Confirm you are using the jail search rather than the prison search.
Then check custody changes
- The person may have been released.
- The person may have bonded out.
- The person may have transferred to another facility.
- The case may continue even though regional-jail custody ended.
If the jail search no longer answers the question, use the relevant county court record. If the person may have moved from regional-jail custody into prison custody, WV DCR also provides a separate Offender Search (Prisons) route from the same search hub.
Southern Regional Jail Visitation
WV DCR currently lists Southern Regional Jail visitation as non-contact visitation. The inmate must submit a request using the facility’s visitation request process, and visits must be scheduled in advance.
WV DCR states that a visit may include either one adult and two minor children or two adults. Requests for longer visits require prior approval, and special visits for unusual circumstances are directed to facility leadership. Proof of the special circumstance may be required.
Southern Regional Jail Address and Phone
Facility address
Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
1200 Airport Road
Beaver, WV 25813
Official contact numbers
Main telephone: (304) 256-6726
Non-contact visitation scheduling: (304) 256-6738
Fax: (304) 256-6739
Use the jail for facility and custody-related questions. If your question concerns a criminal case, filing, hearing or court document, contact the appropriate court instead of relying on jail staff to explain the case.
Custody Notifications Through WV Victim Services
West Virginia DCR Victim Services identifies Victim Information and Notification Everyday (VINE) as one of its victim services. VINE can help victims follow changes in an offender’s custody status and receive notifications when supported by the system.
Official Sources for Southern Regional Jail Records
Open official offender-search hub
Open official facility page
Open WV court record access
Open magistrate search guide
Open victim services