In addition, the offender search contains information about prisoners, parolees, and probationers who are currently under supervision, and who have been discharged. It also contains those inmates who have absconded, or escaped.
The actual prison that an inmate is assigned to depends on factors such as security classification, remaining time of their sentence, gang affiliation, and location of their residence.
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation began in 1866, when the first prison, the West Virginia State Penitentiary, was built in Moundsville.
Today the state of West Virginia's Prison System, with 3,400 employees, maintains 12 state correctional institutions.
As of the end of 2023 the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation oversees approximately 6,000 state inmates, with another 2,500 on parole.
The following will explain the instructions, tricks and hacks you can use to find any inmate in custody with the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation provides a limited amount of information you may want to know about any inmate in their system, however they do list every inmate, including those released and on parole. Inmates in custody have their crimes listed, as well as previous convictions. To look up an inmate (or parolee, or those who have been released), you need the full last name.
The West Virginia Offender Locator page gives you several search options:
For this you will be clicking on the West Virginia Prison Offender Search link... see the arrow.
The Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator includes inmates that are not only in custody, but who have been in custody and have been released (or who died in custody) since 1982.
For inmates in custody prior to 1982, visit the National Archives Records Administration and provide the following information:
Searching by Name
Searching by Name Results
Searching by Number
Searching by Number Result
Things to Know About Federal Inmate Search Results
When someone that is not a US Citizen gets arrested in the United States, and they are here illegally, depending on what state or city they are arrested in, the person may be turned over to ICE.
Many states such as New York and California, as well as hundreds of US cities, have declared themselves 'sanctuary cities' and do not turn over foreigners here illegally, even if they are committing crimes in their jurisdiction.
However, when an alien here illegally is turned over to ICE, and sent to one of the over 100 Immigration Detention Centers in the United States, the only way to try and locate where they are being detained is using the Online Detainee Locator System.
You can look them up using their assigned A-Number.
You can also try and look them up by using their name.
