Verify Duffield Facility Releases

Duffield Release and Court County

Duffield is outside Dickenson County, yet it can confine a person whose charge or court file is in Dickenson. SWVRJA serves several member jurisdictions through four facilities. The arresting locality, court county, and placement site are separate fields, and they may differ during the same custody episode. Searching only for a building inside Dickenson can miss a person who remains held at Duffield.

A direct Duffield release can follow bond, recognizance, dismissal, time served, or sentence completion. The SWVRJA record should identify the date, time, reason, and release authority. A Dickenson court order may explain the outcome, but it does not necessarily capture the exact moment the jail completed processing or cleared every hold.

Movement from Duffield to Haysi, Abingdon, or Tazewell is not release. Nor is transfer to VADOC, a federal custodian, or ICE. The receiving agency and destination field decide whether physical departure from Duffield ended confinement.

Check Duffield Current Custody

Use the SWVRJA Current Facility Inmates search before drawing a release conclusion. It is authority-wide and reflects people reported in present custody. Compare the full name and any displayed identifiers. If the interface identifies a facility, do not assume that yesterday's Duffield placement is still current.

1. Confirm the person and custody episode with a booking number or court case when available.
2. Search the full SWVRJA view for Duffield and the other authority locations.
3. Check the relevant Dickenson court docket for a bond, disposition, or sentencing order.
4. Review Virginia VINE for the event label and time reported by the jail.
5. Ask SWVRJA for the release or transfer record when the person is absent.

A negative search proves only that no matched current result appeared at that time. It may reflect a true release, an internal transfer, intake lag, an alias, or a spelling difference. Record the check time and search terms. The Dickenson County release search provides the wider state and federal fallback when the record points beyond SWVRJA.

Duffield Release Event Proof

Virginia VINE is available for Virginia local and regional jails. Through Virginia VINE, a user may search for a known person and may register for custody-change notices. Release and transfer are separate event types. The exact alert language must be preserved because a transfer notice does not mean the person is free.

The court record adds legal context. A bond order can authorize pretrial liberty, while a sentencing or disposition entry may support time served, a suspended term, or probation. The Dickenson combined district courts and Circuit Court handle different stages and offense levels. Search both when the procedural history calls for it, then ask the clerk for the signed order if a web summary is unclear.

When the sources differ, consider whether each timestamp marks order entry, transport, jail processing, or receiving-agency intake. Ask each office to explain its own record rather than assuming one timestamp must replace all others.

Request Duffield Release Records

The SWVRJA FOIA procedure is the official route for the jail-created record. Describe the record and episode with reasonable detail: full name, aliases, date of birth when appropriate, approximate booking and exit dates, Duffield as the known confinement site, booking or inmate number, arresting agency, and court case number.

Ask for the existing booking-and-release entry, release or transfer date and time, category, destination, receiving agency, and the authority that ordered the exit. Electronic delivery may reduce copying cost. Request an estimate before a stated threshold and ask the authority to release reasonably segregable portions while citing the legal basis for anything withheld.

Virginia FOIA generally uses a five-working-day response period. A response is not always immediate production. The authority may produce records, invoke a lawful extension, identify an exemption, refer the requester, or state that no responsive record exists. Charges may not exceed actual reasonable costs, and the agency may require a deposit when anticipated charges exceed the statutory amount.

Send requests to the creator. SWVRJA holds Duffield booking and exit records. The Dickenson sheriff holds sheriff-created arrest or transport material. The court holds its signed orders, and VADOC holds records created after state intake.

Note: A narrow request for one booking episode is more likely to identify the correct Duffield release or transfer than a demand for an undefined file.

Duffield Release Record Contact

Use the official SWVRJA contacts to confirm the current office and process. The facility number can help route a question about present placement or public pickup procedure, while the live FOIA page supplies the authority's current records contact. No standard Duffield release time or public waiting location was established by the research.

Call before making travel arrangements. First confirm which SWVRJA building holds the person and whether a release has actually been scheduled. A court event or VINE notice can precede operational processing, and a transfer may use a different destination than a family expects.

Duffield Regional Release Path

The SWVRJA directory lists Haysi, Abingdon, Duffield, and Tazewell under one authority. This four-site structure is not background detail. It changes the meaning of a missing name and establishes why a Dickenson court case can lead to a Duffield confinement record.

Follow the authority before following the county line. If a current result changes from Duffield to Haysi, the person is still confined. If no authority result remains, request the exit transaction. If that transaction names VADOC, search the VADOC locator after intake. If it names another jail, federal agency, or ICE, use the receiving system.

Placement location

The building where SWVRJA reports the person confined at a point in time.

Transfer

A movement that changes location or custodian while confinement continues.

Community release

An exit from confinement, sometimes followed by probation or parole supervision.

Unconditional discharge

The end of custody and required supervision as shown by the responsible system.

VADOC community supervision is not the same as imprisonment, and probation is not the same as parole. The signed court order and state record identify which form of supervision applies after a true Duffield release.

Historical Duffield Release Records

The official online jail product is current-only. It supplies no fixed window for former inmates and no Duffield 24-hour or 72-hour release archive. Removing a name from the public view does not mean the agency record was destroyed. It also does not prove the person was released.

The Library of Virginia local and regional jail schedule identifies cumulative booking and release records for retention twenty years after separation. It lists detailed incarceration records for three years after separation. Those periods support a focused historical request, though the correct series, lawful destruction, and access restrictions still govern each record.

Ask for the cumulative entry first when the event is old. It may preserve the booking number, dates, facility, and exit type after detailed material is no longer available. If the response is partly withheld, ask for segregable fields and the specific exemption. Juvenile, medical, sealed, expunged, security-sensitive, and third-party information can require protection.

Identity remains vital. A common name should be checked against middle name, birth data, booking number, arresting locality, charge, and court case. Never merge two records because their names resemble one another.

Read Duffield Release Results

A strong conclusion uses three aligned records: the SWVRJA exit date and reason, the Dickenson court order, and the receiving or supervising agency record when custody or supervision continued. A direct release should lack a receiving jail or prison. An internal or outside transfer should name a destination or custodian.

Do not rely on an estimated VADOC release date to establish when Duffield custody ended. Do not rely on court disposition alone for the jail's physical exit time. Do not rely on VINE alone for the legal reason. Each source has a narrow role.

The critical question is simple: where did the person go next? For Duffield, the answer may cross county lines without leaving the regional authority. The destination field and matched custody record turn that movement into a defensible release or transfer finding.