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Tygart Valley Jail Overview

Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Bureau of Prisons and Jails. It is not a Taylor County-owned jail and it is not a city lockup. For Taylor County, the practical point is simple: the arrest may start with a local agency in Grafton or elsewhere in the county, but the public jail search and the public visit site point to the statewide regional jail system.

The facility address is in Belington, Randolph County. Taylor County residents should not assume that the jail visit, the sheriff's office, and the court record are in the same building. The county courthouse and court clerks are in Grafton, while Tygart Valley is the custody facility used in the regional jail system. That split matters when a family member is trying to find a person, confirm a release, or learn whether a case has moved from booking into magistrate or circuit court.

The official DCR facility page is shown in the captured image below. The source is the DCR Tygart Valley facility page, which lists the facility name, address, phone, fax, and public visitation schedule.

The image is useful because it confirms the official DCR page readers should rely on for the facility's published schedule and contact details, not a private jail directory.

Tygart Valley Inmate Population

The best sourced facility capacity figure in the Taylor County research is the official 2023 Tygart Valley PREA audit, which gives capacity as 468 inmates. The same audit describes male and female housing and minimum through maximum classification levels. A 2021 PREA audit describes one building with 24 inmate housing areas, and the 2023 audit states that Tygart Valley had zero open-bay dormitory housing. Those facts describe the facility. They should not be read as a Taylor County-only jail population.

DCR annual-report snippets in the research give facility population context for recent fiscal years: 481 in FY2020, 485 in FY2022, and 375 in FY2023. Those are Tygart Valley facility counts or annual-report population figures, not a list of only Taylor County inmates. The DCR daily incarcerations page can show daily admissions by county or institution, while annual reports and PREA audits describe the larger regional jail facility.

Tygart Valley Inmate Lookup

Taylor County does not publish a separate county jail roster on the county website in the official sources located for public lookup. The first online path is the WVDCR offender search hub, which separates daily incarcerations, regional jail offender search, prison/supervision search, and escapee or absconder searches. For a fresh Taylor County arrest, the regional jail tools are the correct starting point. The prison/supervision locator is for people in active DCR prison, parole, or supervision status.

Use the WV Regional Jail Daily Incarcerations page for county or institution admissions, and use the WV Regional Jail Offender Search for a name search. DCR warns that public jail data can change quickly. A roster result should be checked against Tygart Valley before travel, and formal charge status should be checked through the court record rather than treated as final from the booking page.

1. Open the DCR offender search hub and choose the regional jail search path for a recent Taylor County arrest.
2. On the daily incarcerations page, select Taylor from the county dropdown or review Tygart Valley admissions when the institution list appears.
3. Use the regional jail offender search for a name search, entering at least the first three letters of the last name and adding a first name when needed.
4. Confirm that the person is listed at Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility before planning a visit or deposit.
5. For a sentenced transfer, search the WVDCR prison/supervision offender search by OID or name.

VINELink is also available in West Virginia for custody and case notification support. Family members, victims, and other authorized users can search or register through West Virginia VINELink, but VINELink should not replace direct confirmation with DCR or the court when a deadline, bond, or visit is involved. For the broader roster workflow and record fields, use the Taylor County jail inmate records page.

Tygart Valley Address

The jail contact point for current custody, visit questions, and public facility information is Tygart Valley itself. The Taylor County courthouse and sheriff's office can matter for local law-enforcement or court-record questions, but the jail visit and inmate housing are at the regional facility. Call before driving from Grafton or another Taylor County community, especially when a release, lockdown, holiday, weather event, or schedule change may affect access.

The Taylor County local records side is separate. The official county courthouse contact header lists 214 W. Main Street, Grafton, WV 26354 and the courthouse phone as (304) 265-1401. That address can matter for magistrate, circuit, county, prosecutor, or sheriff contacts, but it is not the jail visitation destination for a person housed at Tygart Valley.

Tygart Valley Visitation Rules

The official Tygart Valley schedule is concentrated into three public visit windows. The DCR facility page and the official visitation rules PDF list Tuesday evening, Saturday morning, and Sunday afternoon as the public schedule. No public visitation is listed for Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. The visitation PDF also states that visits are non-contact, last one half hour unless prior approval is granted, and must be scheduled in advance.

Visitors need valid government-issued photo identification, must sign the logbook, and must submit to search. The rules prohibit contraband such as drugs, alcohol, weapons, ammunition, and explosive devices. Dress code and behavior rules apply, and the facility can deny or end a visit for rule violations. A useful local detail is the notary rule: facility notaries cannot notarize visitation forms, so notarization must be handled outside the facility process.

Visitors should use the official Tygart Valley visitation rules PDF for the current rule set and call the facility if a form, schedule, or approval step is unclear.

Tygart Valley Mail and Money

Mail instructions in the Taylor County research are cautious because no Tygart Valley-specific public mail-format page was located beyond the official facility address and general DCR service pages. A practical mail line should include the inmate's full name, any known DCR or jail identifier, the facility name, and the official Abbey Road address. Call Tygart Valley before sending packages, photos, books, or any item that may be screened, scanned, rejected, or subject to a vendor rule.

DCR offender banking lists three deposit paths: phone, web, and mobile app. The WVDCR offender banking page points to phone deposits at 888-988-4768, online deposits through ConnectNetwork.com, and the ConnectNetwork app. ConnectNetwork payment materials describe account creation or sign-in, major credit cards, and 24/7 payments. Kiosks may exist in facility or agency locations, but the research says to confirm Tygart Valley availability before traveling for a kiosk.

Tygart Valley Calls and Video

The WVDCR calling and video visits page states that WVDCR contracted with GettingOut for calling and video visits. ConnectNetwork's West Virginia DCR page lists services such as AdvancePay, PIN Debit, inmate voicemail, messaging, photo and video attachments, video visitation, and visitation scheduling. The research does not prove that every listed service is active in the same way for every Tygart Valley inmate, so confirm the current service before funding an account.

Video visitation is not the same thing as the public in-person schedule. ConnectNetwork video materials describe registering, selecting the facility, searching for the inmate, adding the inmate, and scheduling if video is offered. A Taylor County family should check the DCR facility schedule and the vendor account side separately, since one may answer in-person visit rules while the other controls paid communication tools.

AdvancePay

A prepaid phone account service listed for WVDCR communications.

PIN Debit

An inmate phone account service listed by ConnectNetwork for West Virginia DCR.

Video visitation

A vendor-supported remote visit option when available for the facility and inmate status.

Taylor County Booking Path

A Taylor County arrest may involve the Taylor County Sheriff's Department, Grafton Police Department, West Virginia State Police, another local agency, or a court order. After arrest or warrant service, the regional jail intake process places the person into the DCR jail database. The research describes intake generally as identity entry, property handling, medical and security screening, fingerprint and photo steps, classification, and admission into the jail database, but it does not publish a minute-by-minute local timeline for every case.

Classification is a jail term for how custody staff assign housing and security controls based on risk, charge status, medical or safety needs, and facility rules. A detainer is a hold or notice from another agency. A federal or immigration issue can alter the custody path even when the first arrest is local. If the person has been sentenced and moved into state prison or active supervision, the regional jail page may no longer be the right lookup tool.

Taylor County Custody Systems

Tygart Valley is a regional jail, not a state prison physically located in Taylor County. Sentenced Taylor County defendants may move from regional jail custody into a different DCR prison or supervision status after sentencing, classification, or bed-space processing. At that point, the WVDCR prison/supervision search becomes the better tool. If a person has left DCR custody, a no-results response can mean the person is discharged or in another system. The Taylor County inmate population overview explains why facility counts should not be read as Taylor County-only counts.

Federal and immigration custody are separate. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and can be searched by number or name. The ICE Online Detainee Locator is the search path for immigration detention and requires JavaScript. DCR annual-report language also notes that West Virginia regional jails can house some federal detainees under U.S. Marshals Service contracts, so the correct search can depend on whether the person is local pretrial, sentenced state custody, federal pretrial, sentenced federal custody, or immigration custody.

Tygart Valley Jail Conditions

DCR and the regional jail system publish PREA materials, and Tygart Valley has official PREA audit reports in the research. PREA refers to the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a federal law focused on preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and harassment in custody. The regional jail search pages include a zero-tolerance sexual abuse and harassment notice and a central office reporting number, (304) 558-2110.

No official Taylor County jail construction, closure, consent decree, Tygart Valley-specific lawsuit, or recent Tygart Valley death-in-custody item was located in the official source sweep used for the research. Statewide jail conditions have been a public issue in West Virginia, but those stories should not be treated as Tygart Valley findings unless an official source connects them to this facility.

Program details are also limited in the public materials reviewed. The research did not locate an official Tygart Valley page listing GED, vocational, substance-abuse, religious, work-release, grievance, or reentry program details. Program availability can depend on custody status, classification, staffing, policy, and current facility operations.