Find Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail Releases

Regional Jail Release Paths

Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail is the adult local and regional jail in Fincastle. Official county pages also call it Botetourt County Jail. The names refer to one facility, not two separate places. It holds adults awaiting court, people serving local sentences, and at times people who are physically local but under Virginia Department of Corrections authority. That mix is why a simple statement that someone is "out of Botetourt" can be misleading.

A magistrate or court may authorize personal recognizance, unsecured bond, secured bond, or another court-ordered exit. A local sentence can end through time served or sentence completion. The jail can also transfer a person to VADOC, another jail, the U.S. Marshals Service, or ICE. The jail release entry proves when this facility stopped holding the person. A destination or receiving-agency field, transfer entry, court order, or alert is needed to explain what happened next.

Confirm Botetourt Jail Release

No official current-inmate search, 24-hour release page, 72-hour release page, or released-photo gallery was found on the sheriff's site as of the research date. That absence makes the jail's phone line the first current-status channel. Use a full name, date of birth when needed to distinguish people, and a narrow booking date range. Ask two separate questions: whether the person is still held and, if not, whether the record identifies community release or transfer.

1. Call the sheriff's jail service at its 24-hour number. Note which official number was used because county pages publish more than one.
2. Search the named person in Virginia Jail VINE. Compare the reporting facility and identity before relying on a status.
3. Check the Botetourt court docket for the bond, disposition, sentence, or signed order tied to the custody event.
4. If state, federal, or immigration transfer is plausible, check the receiving system rather than treating jail absence as freedom.
5. Request the existing sheriff booking and release entry when the exact time, type, or destination is needed.

The broader Botetourt County released inmate search and record path explains how the jail, court, VADOC, VINE, BOP, and ICE checks fit together. A current roster would only show present custody. The durable release entry is the better source for a past event.

Note: A missing VINE result can reflect spelling, lag, transfer, or ended visibility and does not prove community release.

Regional Jail Release Records

The most useful local record is the existing cumulative booking and release record, jail register entry, booking sheet, or electronic jail-management entry. A focused request should identify the person and date range, then ask for fields already maintained by the sheriff. These may include identity, booking number, admission date and time, charge or commitment information, actual release date and time, release type, and destination or receiving agency if maintained.

Use the Botetourt Sheriff's FOIA route and email bcsoFOIA@botetourtva.gov. Ask for an electronic copy in its existing format. If a coded release value is unclear, request the existing code legend. The agency need not answer why a release occurred or create a new report, so phrasing the request around named records and fields is more effective than asking staff to investigate the case.

Virginia's GS-08 schedule retains cumulative booking and release records for 20 years after separation. Retention does not mean a web entry remains online, nor does it guarantee that every field is open without redaction. It does mean a vanished live status and an existing agency record are different things. Virginia FOIA generally provides a five-working-day response framework, with statutory options for production, withholding, partial production, nonexistence, or a timely extension.

Botetourt Jail Release Contacts

Official sources publish several numbers. The sheriff's jail page gives a 24-hour line for immediate custody questions. A county directory separately lists a jail number, sheriff number, and dispatch number. Identify the purpose of the call and record the number used so a later records request can describe the contact accurately.

The official sheriff jail page shows the regional jail identity, address, and primary information line.

The captured page supports the contact route, but it does not provide a live roster or a recent-release list.

The sheriff jail page lists P.O. Box 370 for the jail, while the county directory lists P.O. Box 18 for the Sheriff's Office. Use the addressee and mailing address shown on the page for the specific transaction. For an urgent custody check, use the 24-hour line rather than assuming the administrative desk is open.

Note: Dispatch is not a substitute for a records request, and published jail numbers may serve different operational purposes.

Regional Jail Release Facts

The official 2024 local and regional jail report supplies useful context without measuring releases. It lists 269 permanent beds, 12 special-purpose beds, an actual rated capacity of 124, and an average daily population of 87.15 for the period from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. Rated capacity and average daily population describe space and occupancy. They do not state how many people were booked, released, or transferred.

The distinction prevents a common records error. Occupancy cannot be converted into annual release volume or average length of stay. For a release count over a defined period, request an existing release log or summary if the sheriff maintains one. Do not ask the agency to construct a statistic it does not already keep.

Botetourt Jail ICE Transfers

Botetourt County documented twelve transfers from the regional jail to ICE in the historical period discussed on its BOCO Facts 4 U page. The figure is date-bound and must not be treated as an annual rate. Its value is narrower and important: it confirms that an exit from the Botetourt jail can be a handoff into federal civil immigration custody.

When the release entry identifies ICE, search the ICE locator promptly. It covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the prior 60 days. An ICE detainer is a request for notice of an impending release and asks the other agency to maintain custody for up to 48 hours beyond the time the person would otherwise leave. Check both records because the regional-jail release date and a later ICE release date describe two separate custody events.

The Botetourt immigration release route explains the A-number and name searches, the under-18 exclusion, and the 60-day limit. A person absent after that window may still have had earlier ICE custody.

Regional Jail Release Logistics

No official local release time, exit door, property-pickup rule, weekend practice, family waiting area, transit link, or discharge transportation program was verified. Do not import VADOC's state-prison release rules into this regional jail. VADOC publishes a state process involving signed papers, returned property, and possible bus transport, but those statements apply to state-facility releases.

Call the regional jail before traveling and ask staff to confirm the timing and location that may be disclosed for the specific event. Arrange pickup only after that check. The same caution applies to old names and facility history. Planning records discussed construction in the FY2008 period, while a current capital plan discusses camera and network upgrades, a body scanner, and chiller work. Those sources show a continuing operation and modernization needs, not an opening date or online roster policy.

Note: Published state discharge practices do not establish the regional jail's local exit, pickup, property, or transportation procedure.