Harrison County Wv Arrests This Week (2024)

FAQs

How do I find out if someone is in jail in WV? ›

To find offenders incarcerated in state prisons, use the WV Prison Offender Search. Interested persons may query the database with an offender's last and first name, or an Offender ID (OID) number (the first four numbers, at least).

The Central Regional Jail and Corrections Facility is located in Flatwoods, just off of Interstate 79 in Braxton County.

Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state.

Parkersburg district, Wood County, West Virginia is a city, town, place equivalent, and township located in Wood County, West Virginia.

Users are instructed to call or visit the magistrate court clerk in the county where a case is filed to obtain copies of specific court records. The clerk will charge a nominal fee required by law. The search system helps callers and visitors to know what to ask for and which county they need to contact.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is the single repository for inmate records incarcerated in state-owned facilities. The CDCR provides access to these records via an inmate search tool on its website.

The Jail System

West Virginia has 10 jails in 55 counties. The jail population in 2020 was 5,110.

The Northern Regional Jail was opened in Marshall County in 1994.

Built as a replacement for the Civil War-era West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, Mount Olive Correctional Complex and Jail opened in 1995. The facility is located seven miles east of Montgomery on Cannelton Hollow Road in Fayette County.

Hanco*ck County is the smallest county in the state of West Virginia, and the farthest north, being at the tip of the Northern Panhandle. It was created from Brooke County in 1848, and named for John Hanco*ck, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Who was Harrison County, WV named after? ›

Harrison County was created from Monongalia County, Virginia, in 1784 and was named for Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Clarksburg is the birthplace of General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson. The Northwestern Turnpike, chartered in 1827, and begun in 1831, reached Clarksburg in 1836 and was macadamized from the Tygarts Valley River to Parkersburg in 1848.

Randolph County, West Virginia has 1,039.7 square miles of land area and is the 1st largest county in West Virginia by total area.

The oldest county in the state is Hamsphire County formed in 1754 as part of Virginia. The youngest county is Mingo formed in 1895. The smallest county is Hanco*ck located in the northern panhandle of the state with Randolph being the largest.

The oldest county is Hampshire, established in 1754, and the newest is Mingo, established in 1895.

Locate or learn about an inmate

Use the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate locator to find out when a prisoner is or was expected to be released. To learn more details about an inmate, find out how to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to BOP.

Generally, warrant information in West Virginia is available through local law enforcement agencies and third-party aggregate search services.

WVRJ Authority Board

Participating jurisdictions for Western Virginia Regional Jail are Roanoke County, Franklin County, Montgomery County, and the City of Salem.

One way to find information about inmates in Virginia is to use the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) website. This website provides an inmate locator tool that allows you to search for inmates by name, offender number, or location.