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Tygart Valley Regional Jail Overview

Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is the primary facility for Upshur County jail custody work even though it is located in Randolph County. The current facility page lists Barbour, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Upshur among counties served. The Upshur County sheriff contact page also links residents to Tygart Valley for jail custody.

The facility opened in June 2005 and sits off the Coalton/Norton exit of Route 33. WVDCR describes it as a regional jail and correctional facility. It holds pretrial felons, pretrial misdemeanants, sentenced felons and misdemeanants, DOC Division inmates, and some federal-status inmates reflected in annual report tables. The facility page also states that Tygart Valley houses the majority of the state's female inmates awaiting transfer to prison.

The official WVDCR facility page is the strongest public source for address, phone, directions, superintendent, counties served, and visitation schedule.

The page confirms that Upshur County residents should use the regional jail system rather than looking for a county jail in Buckhannon.

Tygart Valley Capacity and Population

The WVDCR FY2025 Annual Report lists Tygart Valley with a rated population of 368 and FY2025 average daily count of 431. The same report lists FY2025 admissions of 2,493 and releases of 2,374. Those figures are facility-level counts for the regional jail, not Upshur-only counts.

Look Up Tygart Valley Inmates

Use the WV Regional Jail Offender Search for current jail custody at Tygart Valley. The form requires a last name, accepts an optional first name, and uses reCAPTCHA. Use Daily Incarcerations for same-day admissions by county or institution. If the person has been sentenced and transferred to prison or supervision, use the separate WVDCR prison locator.

1. Search the regional jail offender search by last name and optional first name.
2. Check the result for Tygart Valley Regional Jail or another WVDCR facility.
3. Use Daily Incarcerations if the booking happened today.
4. Call Tygart Valley at (304) 637-0382 when custody, release, or transfer timing must be confirmed.
5. Search the prison locator if court action or sentencing moved the person out of jail custody.

The daily admissions page can help when a new intake has not settled into a full search result yet.

Daily entries are snapshots and should be paired with direct facility or court confirmation for release and bond questions.

Tygart Valley Address and Contact

The facility phone is the main information line for current jail custody. The Upshur sheriff's law-enforcement office may help route local arrest questions, but Tygart Valley is the jail facility for custody and visit confirmation.

Visiting Tygart Valley Inmates

Visits at Tygart Valley are non-contact and scheduled in advance. The inmate must submit TVRJ Form 5-0029, Request for Scheduled Visitation, to the Visitation OA between 8:00 a.m. Monday and noon Thursday of the week before the desired visit. The form must list all visitors. Visits are generally limited to one 30-minute visit per month, with either one adult and two minor children or two adults.

Visitors must sign the logbook, present valid government photo ID, and clear security screening. The rules list canine searches when available, magnetometer scan, x-ray machines, and pat searches. Visitors should lock purses, pocketknives, cell phones, diaper bags, watches, and unapproved items in the vehicle or a locker as directed.

Mail, Phone, and Money

Official Tygart-specific mail format, commissary vendor, deposit fee table, phone vendor, and video visitation pricing were not located in the reviewed official sources. The safest public wording is to confirm those details with Tygart Valley before sending mail or money. West Virginia Code Section 25-5-11 does require covered facilities to provide mail, telephone use, visitation, medical care, legal access, counseling, food, and sanitation services.

Attorney and approved religious-leader visits may occur outside ordinary visitation, but the rules require coordination, proper credentials, and search procedures.

Tygart Valley Booking and Intake

An Upshur County arrest may be made by the sheriff's office, Buckhannon Police, West Virginia State Police, DNR, or another agency. After arrest, the person may pass through local law-enforcement processing and magistrate procedures, then be committed to Tygart Valley if detention is ordered. Public data may appear in the regional jail search or the daily admissions list.

Current official sources did not publish a Tygart Valley step-by-step booking manual. The research supports a practical intake path: identity confirmation, jail-system entry, property inventory, search, photograph and fingerprints if applicable, medical or security screening, classification, and housing. Housing unit or pod details are not published in the inspected public sources.

Intake

The entry process after arrest or commitment to jail custody.

Classification

The security and housing review used to place a person inside the facility.

Pretrial

Custody before the criminal case has reached final disposition.

DOC Division inmate

A person under state corrections authority who may be housed in jail status tables.

Tygart Valley Visitor Travel

From Interstate 79 at Weston Exit 99, WVDCR instructs visitors to take Route 33 East about 29 miles, turn right on Old Route 151, travel about three-fourths of a mile, turn left, and continue about one mile. From Elkins, take Route 33 West about six miles, turn left on Old Route 151, go about three-fourths of a mile, turn left, and continue about one mile to the jail.

The visitation rules state that no local transportation is available, no bus service reaches the jail, and the nearest taxi is in Elkins. Visitors from Buckhannon should plan the trip before the visit date and confirm weather, road, and visit status with the facility.

About Tygart Valley Programs

The Tygart Valley resource guide is a community resource guide rather than a full in-jail program catalog. It lists statewide and local help such as West Virginia 211, Help4WV, Medicaid/InROADS, domestic violence resources, WorkForce WV, behavioral-health providers, housing resources, Opportunity House in Buckhannon, and Upshur County Housing Authority. Exact in-jail grievance forms, sick-call forms, and mental-health screening forms were not located in the official public sources reviewed.

West Virginia law requires covered facilities to provide health and medical services, food services, mail, telephone use, visitation, legal access, vocational training, educational programs, counseling services including drug and alcohol counseling, and sanitation. For current access to a service, use the facility phone rather than relying on an old vendor or third-party listing.

For a broader custody overview, see the Upshur County inmate population hub. For roster search fields and records-request steps, use Upshur County jail inmate records.