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Understanding Pleasants County Releases

A Pleasants County release is the point when one custodian stops holding a person. That custodian is often the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, not the county sheriff. North Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility houses local defendants through the state regional-jail system. Once a person leaves, the active incarceration screen may no longer show the name. The disappearance is a lead, not proof of the event. A release entry, the WVDCR offender history, VINE status, and the Pleasants court case provide stronger evidence.

The word released can describe several outcomes. Bond or personal recognizance sends a defendant into the community while the case continues. A dismissal, time-served order, or sentence completion may end the custody tied to that case. Parole and mandatory supervision involve physical release with state oversight. Probation is imposed by a court and is not parole. A transfer, writ, or immigration detainer means the first facility stopped holding the person, but another custodian took over. The record's exact code matters.

Discharge

The end of custody or supervision documented by the responsible agency.

Time served

A release based on custody time credited toward the ordered sentence.

Parole

Conditional community release from a prison sentence under state supervision.

Probation

A court sentence supervised in the community, sometimes without a prison term.

Pleasants County's Crossed Custody

Pleasants has an unusual custody map. Local arrestees commonly go to North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge County. Meanwhile, Saint Marys Correctional Center and Jail sits within Pleasants County but houses people sentenced from across West Virginia. A physical location in Pleasants does not establish that the criminal case began there. In the same way, confinement outside Pleasants does not change the county where the local case was filed.

This crossed identity shapes every release check. For a local arrest, retain the Pleasants case number while searching the state-run regional-jail system. For a person at Saint Marys, read the sentencing county and statewide offender history before drawing a local conclusion. A transfer from North Central to another WVDCR institution is continued confinement. A discharge from Saint Marys may lead to the community, parole, mandatory supervision, or another custodian. Facility and status must be read together.

Note: Search the case county and the physical custody site separately when a Pleasants release record involves WVDCR.

Pleasants County Release Types

The release code tells more than a missing roster name. Quote the label shown by the agency, because local court orders and WVDCR operational codes answer different parts of the event. The court supplies legal authority. The facility records the actual exit. A status tool can then show where custody or supervision stands.

A release claim should identify the person, the releasing custodian, the effective date and time, and the stated type or authority. If one element is absent, do not fill it from context. “No longer shown as active” is a dated observation. It is not the same as a documented community release.

Pleasants County Release Record Fields

The booking-and-release record ties an exit to the earlier custody event. North Central or WVDCR may hold the operational record. The Pleasants Sheriff may separately hold an arrest or transport report, while the court holds the order that changed legal status. Ask for the existing record by name and bounded dates instead of asking staff to prepare a new explanation.

Not every field is public or stored in one file. Juvenile, medical, sealed, security-sensitive, and private data may be withheld or redacted. A requester can ask the custodian to separate public fields rather than deny the entire record. The release reason should be copied exactly because “transfer” does not mean freedom from custody.

Request Pleasants County Release Records

West Virginia Code §29B-1-3 requires reasonable detail in a public-record request. Within five days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, the public body must produce copies, set a time for inspection, or give a written denial. It may charge actual reproduction cost, but the statute bars a search, retrieval, or man-hour fee. No fixed local per-page price was verified.

1. Identify the correct custodian. Send North Central or Saint Marys operational requests to WVDCR. Send sheriff-created arrest records to the Pleasants Sheriff.
2. Give the full name, date of birth or offender number, Pleasants case number, facility, and a narrow custody interval.
3. Ask for existing booking sheets, the release screen or log entry, release authorization, movement history, and a releasable photograph.
4. Request electronic copies and ask for notice before reproduction charges exceed a stated limit.
5. If a field is withheld, request the cited legal basis and production of the parts that can be separated.

The sheriff's office is not the operator of North Central. It may hold local arrest and transport material without possessing the state facility's precise physical-exit entry. Directing each request to the record creator prevents delay and avoids asking one office to certify another agency's act.

Pleasants Release Records and Expungement

West Virginia's Freedom of Information Act starts with a right to inspect or copy public records, subject to exemptions in §29B-1-4. Public access and agency retention are separate issues. The daily incarceration screen is current-custody oriented, but WVDCR retains operational records under its records-management and offender-record policies. No reliable public-display period for former North Central detainees was established.

Court records can also change. §61-11-25 addresses qualifying acquittal or dismissal cases, while §61-11-26 governs eligible convictions and contains exclusions and waiting rules. The West Virginia Judiciary provides separate forms. A granted order changes access as the law directs. A later no-result cannot be used to declare that an earlier arrest or release never occurred.

Note: A sealed or expunged result changes public access but does not authorize guessing about an earlier release event.

Find Pleasants County Released Inmates

Begin with custody type, not a broad name search. A Pleasants defendant at North Central follows a different trail from a state prisoner at Saint Marys, a federal prisoner, or a person transferred to immigration custody. Save the offender number, booking number, case number, date of birth, and access date whenever available. Those details separate people with similar names and allow a custodian to locate the right record.

1. Check the WVDCR active and daily incarceration view only for the last known regional-jail location and identifiers.
2. Search the broader WVDCR offender system and West Virginia VINE. Record the exact status, facility, source agency, and update time.
3. Search the Pleasants Magistrate and Circuit case for bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, commitment, or later discharge orders.
4. Use BOP or ICE tools only when federal or immigration custody is relevant. A nonresult in one system does not resolve every other custody type.
5. Request the North Central or WVDCR release transaction when the physical time, reason, or receiving custodian remains unclear.

The state did not publish a verified Pleasants or North Central rolling release feed. A last-24-hours check therefore begins with these fallbacks rather than a fabricated list. Repeat a live check after normal update intervals, but never label roster disappearance as a confirmed release.

Note: Save identifiers before a name leaves the active view because they make later court and records requests more precise.

Pleasants Release Checks Cross Counties

Release verification often crosses both a court level and a county line. Misdemeanors and preliminary felony matters begin in Magistrate Court. Felony cases proceed in Circuit Court. Yet the regional jail serving Pleasants is physically in Doddridge County. Search by Pleasants as the case or sentencing county even when North Central appears as the custody location.

The free Magistrate Record Search accepts a first name, last name, or case number and returns no more than thirty results. It shows index information, not the documents. The state court-access hub explains circuit and magistrate routes. Ask the clerk for a named bond, dismissal, sentencing, commitment, probation, revocation, or discharge order. The court order explains legal authority, while the jail transaction proves when the physical exit was processed.

The official West Virginia court-access gateway shows the separate paths for magistrate and circuit records.

The gateway helps locate the right index or clerk, but the case order still must be matched to the North Central or WVDCR release event.

The Pleasants Circuit Clerk is at 301 Court Lane, Suite 201, St. Marys, with telephone 304-684-3513. CourtPLUS e-filing began locally in 2021, but that does not ensure every older public document can be downloaded. Contact the clerk for the docket and a specific order rather than asking for legal interpretation.

WVDCR Pleasants Release Search

The WVDCR offender search bridges regional-jail and prison information. Enter the narrowest reliable identity data, compare possible matches, and open a detail record only after checking identifiers. For Saint Marys, the sentencing county may be anywhere in West Virginia. For North Central, Pleasants may be the case county even though the facility is elsewhere.

WVDCR warns that its public information may not show the true current location, release date, or status. The research did not confirm one universal “Projected Release Date” field on every detail record. Copy the label actually displayed. When precision matters, request the current sentence-computation statement and release record.

Transportation After a Pleasants Release

North Central's official directions identify a practical release issue: there is no local transportation or bus service, and the nearest taxis are based in Clarksburg and Parkersburg. The source does not promise a discharge shuttle, a waiting area, a set gate, or a daily release time. Anyone coordinating a lawful pickup should confirm current instructions with the facility at 304-873-1384.

The distinction matters because North Central is in Greenwood, outside Pleasants County. A court order may be entered before the facility processes the exit, and an expected time can change because of records checks, a detainer, or transfer processing. Arrange travel only after the responsible office confirms what it can disclose. Do not infer that a person has left from a missing active result.

Pleasants Post-Release Supervision

Parole, probation, and Community Corrections are separate. WVDCR Parole Services supervises a person conditionally released from state imprisonment. Pleasants is served by the Parkersburg Parole Office. Court probation is handled through the Judiciary's Third Circuit grouping. The sentence and later discharge or revocation orders are the best public trail for probation because no official person-by-person public parole lookup was found.

A person who is no longer incarcerated may still be subject to state parole or a court probation term. Confirm parole through the offender record and the Parkersburg office when it may lawfully disclose public information. Confirm probation through the sentencing court's orders and the current Third Circuit probation contact. Absence from an active jail list does not show that either form of supervision has ended.

Pleasants Community Corrections After Release

Pleasants County Community Corrections is a multi-county, court-linked alternative for adults who may need less than institutional custody. It uses assessment and individual programming. It is not a public locator, not the same as parole, and not an automatic destination after release.

The program's county page supplies the current local navigation. Participation should come from the court and program record, not an assumption based on a jail release. Parole records, probation orders, and Community Corrections documents belong to different offices even when all three relate to a person living in the community.

Saint Marys Release History

WVDCR's Saint Marys facility page says the site was once the Colin Anderson Center, established in 1932. That center closed in spring 1998, and the site became a medium-security correctional institution. The history helps explain why a statewide prison sits inside a small county whose own local defendants usually travel to a regional jail elsewhere.

A person confined at Saint Marys is not automatically a Pleasants defendant. State prisoners there may be paroled, discharged at maximum sentence, placed on mandatory supervision, or transferred. Use the statewide offender history, VINE, Parole Board record when relevant, and the WVDCR physical release transaction. A parole grant or hearing date is not itself the gate-exit time.

Note: Saint Marys is a statewide prison in Pleasants County, not a local jail limited to Pleasants cases.

Pleasants Release Notification Channels

West Virginia VINE covers participating WVDCR custody records and can provide a person-specific status and alerts. It is a notification service, not a permanent certified release history. Record the exact wording, agency, and update time. Transfer notices may wait until arrival at the next facility, so a temporary gap does not prove community release.

Federal and immigration checks use separate systems. The BOP Inmate Locator can show a federal prisoner as released or not in BOP custody, often with a date. That statement addresses BOP custody only. ICE's detainee locator covers certain current detainees and retains released people for a limited period; it is not a full historical release archive. A regional-jail release to ICE is a transfer, not community release. Federal pretrial custody may require the court docket or a specific U.S. Marshals Service records request.

Compare Pleasants Release Sources

Each system answers a different question. Combining them prevents the most common error: treating a present-custody roster as a list of people who left.

Note: A source that says only “not in custody” does not identify the release reason or rule out another custodian.

Pleasants County Release Facilities

North Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is the primary regional custody site serving Pleasants cases. It is operated by WVDCR in Greenwood. Community release, commitment to state custody, a writ, or another transfer must be distinguished through its release and movement record.

Saint Marys Correctional Center and Jail is a state correctional center with a jail component inside Pleasants County. It is not a county sheriff's jail or a Pleasants-only booking site. Statewide OIS, VINE, parole material, and WVDCR records form the proper release trail.

No separately operated Pleasants County jail, municipal overnight jail, federal prison, dedicated ICE detention center, or county release center was verified. Creating a “Pleasants County Jail” record path would point readers to an agency structure that does not exist.

Note: Facility roles and official contacts were accessed in August 2026; confirm live details with WVDCR before relying on them.