Find Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Releases

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Release Paths

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail is the official regional facility serving Craig County. It sits in Fincastle and is managed and operated by the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Office. A Craig arrest or court case can therefore produce records in two places. The regional jail has the booking, physical confinement, and release entry. Craig General District or Circuit Court holds the legal case, bond order, sentence, and later disposition.

Leaving this jail can lead to the community or another custodian. A person may leave on personal recognizance, unsecured bond, secured bond, time served, sentence completion, probation, or another court order. A transfer to VADOC, another local jail, BOP, or ICE also ends the Botetourt–Craig booking. In that case, the person is no longer on the regional list but has not necessarily returned to the community.

Confirm Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Release

The Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal can show current presence or an admission. Its Botetourt setup does not offer Releases by Date Range. The Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days controls are inside Admits by Date Range. A custom date range can cover up to 31 days, but that query still shows admission activity.

1. Search Current Confinements under the person’s correct name. Use an admission search only to confirm that the booking occurred.
2. If the name is absent, call 540-928-2314 and ask whether the booking ended through community release or transfer.
3. Request the existing release date, time, type, authority, and receiving-agency entry from jail records.
4. Match the event to Craig court records for the bond order, sentence, disposition, or later release order.
5. If a transfer is recorded, check the named VADOC, jail, federal, or immigration system before stating that all custody ended.

The full Craig County released inmate search explains how the jail, state corrections, courts, notification services, and federal systems fit together. Use the jail release entry when the exact local outcome must be documented.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Release Portal

The local portal is easy to misread because its admission menu includes a Last 24 Hours choice. That label does not identify people released in the last day. A three-day custom admission range is not a 72-hour release list either. No official recent-release tab, publication cadence, or online retention interval was verified for Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail.

The Sheriff’s Citizen Connect gateway screenshot shows the official route and the access-control fallback encountered during collection.

The gateway leads to confinement and admission information. It should not be described as a Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail release feed unless the live interface later adds and labels that function.

When a recent interval matters, ask whether the jail already keeps a release log for those dates. Virginia FOIA requires access to existing records within its rules, but it does not force an agency to create a new list. A focused request can seek release date and time, booking number, recorded release type, and transfer status, with required redactions.

Note: The portal’s unpublished update timing makes a direct jail check the safer route for a change that may have just occurred.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Release Records

The regional jail publishes separate jail and facility numbers, an administrative schedule, mailing details, and record email channels. The 24-hour jail line is the practical route for an urgent custody change. For a durable record, write jail records with enough identity and date detail to locate the booking without asking staff to create a report.

Request the booking sheet, actual release date and time, release authorization or type, and the receiving agency if the record documents transfer and that field is disclosable. An adult routine initial-booking photograph and a property-release receipt may also be named when relevant. Ask for electronic copies and an advance estimate.

Other published Botetourt routes include BCSOJail@BotetourtVA.Gov, BCSORecords@BotetourtVa.Gov, and BCSOFOIA@BotetourtVa.Gov. Operational jail records should go to Botetourt first. Craig County’s FOIA contact is appropriate for records actually held by the Craig Sheriff, while the Craig court clerks control their case files.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Record Fields

A narrow request reduces ambiguity. The key issue is not merely whether the name vanished, but when the local custody episode ended and under what authority. The record should be tied to the correct person and booking, especially when names are common or a person has more than one confinement.

The Library of Virginia GS-08 schedule lists inmate incarceration records for confidential destruction three years after separation. The series can include booking sheets, photographs, property receipts, pretrial-release documents, parole notices, and other release material. This underlying retention period does not promise the same duration online. Ask the custodian which record series governs an older file.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Bond Releases

The official bonding information distinguishes personal recognizance, unsecured bond, and secured bond. Personal recognizance rests on a promise to appear without money. An unsecured bond states a sum that may become due after failure to appear. A secured bond requires money or other security before release can occur.

The Sheriff’s page says bondsman fees in Virginia are often 10 to 15 percent. That is general information, not a court-set bond amount or a guaranteed charge for one release. The court order controls the required terms. Jail records then establish when staff processed the actual release. Neither a bond order nor a release event resolves the charge itself.

Search the correct Craig court file by case number and charge. General District Court can hold misdemeanor matters and felony preliminary stages, while Circuit Court can hold the later felony record. A court order supplies legal context, but the Botetourt–Craig release entry remains the better record for the physical end of that booking.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Release Alerts

Botetourt–Craig victim notification guidance directs users to Virginia Jail VINE for local and regional jail custody. Search a specific person by name or offender or booking number. Select the correct record, then register a phone, text, or email destination. Telephone notices use a private four-digit PIN to acknowledge receipt.

VINE may continue telephone calls until the PIN is entered or 24 hours passes. It covers events such as release, transfer, escape or recapture, and death, and may also reflect work release or home electronic monitoring. A release alert can therefore describe movement to another jail or to VADOC. Call Botetourt–Craig and check the receiving locator when transfer is possible.

VADOC state-prison victim notification now uses NAAVI rather than VINE. A local Jail VINE registration does not automatically migrate when the person moves into state custody. Keep the two systems distinct and use NAAVI only through its eligibility-based process.

Note: VINE is valuable for advance notice, but the dated jail release entry remains the formal local record after an event.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail History

The official regional jail page identifies the Fincastle facility, its contact details, and its service to Craig. The FY24 Virginia Jail Cost Report says the facility was built in 2008 and reports an operating capacity of 124. It recorded 31,712 all-inmate housed days, an average daily population of 87, and 70 percent capacity use.

The official facility source screenshot shows the Botetourt–Craig identity and published contact setting.

The image helps confirm that Craig detainees are served by this regional facility in Botetourt rather than a separate building called Craig County Jail.

These are operational measures, not release counts. The report’s zero federal and out-of-state average daily population for that year does not establish a permanent rule or an ICE contract. No official evidence in the research confirmed such a local contract.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Transition Programs

The regional jail publishes programs that include AA and NA, Blue Ridge Behavioral Health, BrightView outpatient addiction medicine, religious services, and release-transitioning work. Those services give the facility a local context that a roster cannot show. Program participation does not itself prove a release date, release type, or discharge status.

A state DSS resource also names the Alleghany, Covington, Botetourt, and Craig Reentry & Community Collaboration Council, with contact routed through the serving Social Services or probation and parole office. VADOC District 40 is in Fincastle at a separate address from the jail. Do not merge the supervision office with the detention facility.

No official local rule was found for gate exit time, weekend processing, transportation after release, or later property pickup. VADOC’s state-prison release-day rules do not apply automatically to this regional jail. Call the facility about the individual release and ask what identification, pickup, or property steps apply.

Botetourt–Craig Regional Jail Transfer Records

A transfer record changes the next agency, not just the website. Use the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator when the regional record shows state authority. A person physically released but still on probation or parole may remain in that locator because it covers supervisees. For full inactive status, VADOC release documents are more durable than assuming the public locator retains the record forever.

Use BOP for a sentenced federal prisoner. A BOP status of Released or Not in BOP custody applies to federal custody and may coexist with a state or immigration hold. ICE ODLS covers current detention and people released from ICE custody during a limited recent window. No public USMS name locator comparable to BOP was found for federal pretrial custody.

Current confinement

Physical presence shown by the regional jail’s current system.

Community release

Departure from custody without a documented transfer to another custodian.

Supervision

Probation or parole status that can continue after physical release.

Detainer

A request that may lead one agency to hold or transfer a person for another authority.

Follow the recorded custody chain until the last agency confirms its own event. That process prevents a regional-jail exit from being mistaken for complete freedom when another custodian took control.