Do you wish to search online for an inmate who is under the care of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority? If your answer to that question is ‘yes’, then please read on: as we will shortly explain to you how you can go about undertaking the search. As it turns out, the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority has a website that, among other features, has an ‘inmate search’ function. It is the said ‘inmate search’ function, on the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority’s website, that you can use to search for an inmate who is in any one of the authority’s facilities.
It is worth noting that there are several other things you can do on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority, besides searching for inmates. Those include searching for employment there, accessing information about visitation days (and hours) and accessing general information about the various facilities that are managed by the authority. Our focus here will, however, be on the aspect of searching for inmates through the site.
What searching for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority entails, at a glance
Searching online for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority mainly entails going to the authority’s website, clicking on the ‘inmate search’ link from the main menu, and then entering the name of the inmate you are searching for. The site then returns results, which include the inmate’s mugshot, last name, first name, middle name, suffix and location. You can also click for ‘more information’ on any inmate: whereupon you would be able to see details on the inmate’s sex, date of birth, height, weight, race, booking date… among others.
Things you need to have, to search for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority
To search for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority, you need to have basic details about the inmate: at the very least, you need to have the inmate’s last name. You also need to have access to a computing device that is connected to the Internet, for you to be able to search for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority.
The website you need to visit, to search online for an inmate who is under the care of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority
To search online for an inmate who is under the care of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority, you need to visit the authority’s website. The address you can use to get to the said website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority is indicated below, in the ‘links to help you’ section.
Steps you need to follow, to search online for an inmate on the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority
- Check in the ‘links to help you’ section below, and you will notice that the address for the website of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority is indicated. Now enter that address into your browser, and your browser will transfer you to the said website (of the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority).
- When you get to the website of thee West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority, focus your attention on the main menu towards the top of the homepage. That menu has items like ‘Home’, ‘Inmate Search’, ‘Facility Information’, ‘Visitation’, ‘Employment’ and ‘About Us’. Click on the ‘Inmate Search’ link.
- On the screen that you are taken to after clicking on the ‘Inmate Search’ link, read through the disclaimer at the top. Then scroll down the page, and as required, enter the last name of the inmate you are looking for, and, optionally, the first name. Then enter the provided ‘captcha’ code. Finally, click on the ‘Search’ button.
- You will then be taken to a page with the relevant search results. Click on the link for the specific inmate you are interested in. You will then be able to see more information about that inmate: the inmate’s mugshot, full name, sex, date of birth, height, weight, race, location and booking date. Scroll down the results page a bit, you will also be able to access the inmate’s court order list: including the issuing agency, case number(s), bail type and bail amount.
Links to help you
- West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority website: http://www.wvrja.com
- Inmate Search page on West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority’s website: https://apps.wv.gov/OIS/OffenderSearch/RJA/Offender/AdmissionDetails