Where Saint Marys Releases Go
Saint Marys Correctional Center and Jail is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It is not the Pleasants County Sheriff’s jail and is not a Pleasants-only booking center. Most people confined there are state prisoners whose sentencing counties may be elsewhere. The physical address in St. Marys does not make every resident a Pleasants County defendant.
A person leaving the prison population may enter parole, reach the end of the sentence, begin a mandatory supervised-release period, or transfer to another WVDCR location. Parole is conditional community release before the full sentence endpoint. Discharge means the applicable custody or supervision term has ended. Mandatory supervised release can place a person in the community while legal supervision continues. A transfer is not community release at all.
| Saint Marys outcome | What confirms it |
|---|---|
| Parole | Board action, completed WVDCR processing, OIS/VINE status, and release transaction |
| Sentence discharge | WVDCR offender history, institutional time sheet, and discharge record |
| Mandatory supervision | WVDCR release record and supervision terms under the applicable statute |
| Institutional transfer | OIS location/history and movement record |
Important: A parole grant or a changed facility listing does not by itself prove that Saint Marys completed the physical release.
Confirm a Saint Marys Release
Use the prison branch at the WVDCR offender-search gateway. The regional-jail Daily Incarcerations page is the wrong starting point for a sentenced Saint Marys prisoner. Search with the narrowest reliable identity data. An offender number is best when known; otherwise compare name, birth information, physical descriptors, photograph, sentencing county, offense data, and prior location before selecting a result.
- Open the WVDCR prison search and compare identifiers before choosing the record.
- Copy the precise location, status, sentence, and release-related date labels that are actually displayed.
- Check West Virginia VINELink for the reporting agency, custody wording, event, and update time.
- If parole applies, distinguish a scheduled hearing, Board result, and completed release processing.
- Ask Saint Marys or WVDCR Records for the actual release transaction or movement record when precision matters.
OIS warns that public data may not reflect the true current location, release date, status, or other facts. The research also did not verify that every public prison result displays a uniform projected-release field. Copy the live label rather than converting every date into a promise. The Pleasants County release search covers the full custody decision path when the correct system is uncertain.
Note: A no-result or stale result should trigger a records check, not a claim that custody ended on a guessed date.
Saint Marys Release Date Terms
West Virginia uses several date terms that answer different questions. The Parole Board calls the Minimum Discharge Date the date an inmate can expect release from DCR custody if parole does not occur, the person does not escape, and good time is not taken away. A Parole Eligibility Date marks the first point at which a person may be considered by the Board. It is not a hearing date, grant, or guaranteed release.
WVDCR policy also uses Final Release Date. Public search results may show other date labels on particular records, while the institution’s time sheet contains the working calculation. Ask the Saint Marys records clerk or WVDCR Records for the current sentence-computation statement when a date is disputed. Do not ask the Parole Board to calculate jail credit, good time, or a minimum discharge date because WVDCR maintains those records.
- Parole eligibility
- The point when Board consideration may begin, not an order to leave.
- Minimum discharge
- A calculated custody date that depends on the sentence and credited time.
- Discharge
- The end of the applicable custody or supervision obligation.
- Transfer
- Movement to another custodian or facility while confinement continues.
Saint Marys Parole Release Processing
The West Virginia Parole Board holds hearings monthly, and its hearing material names Saint Marys among institutions with monthly onsite hearings. A schedule indicates expected consideration activity. It is not a public list of releases. The Board’s rules allow outcomes such as grant, grant with special conditions, defer, or deny. Copy the exact decision from the person’s notice or Board record.
Even a grant is not the gate event. Home-plan approval, conditions, fingerprinting, records work, another detainer, and other processing may stand between a Board action and the actual exit. Confirm the release through OIS or VINE and obtain the Saint Marys release transaction. If the person leaves on parole, WVDCR Parole Services administers field supervision. The Parkersburg Parole Office serves Pleasants County, but the supervising office can depend on the approved home location rather than the prison’s address.
The official parole-hearing overview explains the state process. It should be read as procedure and schedule context, not as evidence that a named person was released.
Saint Marys Records Contact
Saint Marys and WVDCR are the proper routes for the state prison’s release, movement, and sentence-computation records. A sentencing court supplies the judgment and later orders, while the Parole Board supplies its own action. Pleasants County offices do not become custodians of a statewide prisoner’s file merely because the facility sits inside the county.
Saint Marys Correctional Center and Jail
2880 N. Pleasants Highway
St. Marys, WV 26170
304-684-5500
Fax: 304-684-5506
No sourced public page supplies a daily discharge hour, gate procedure, property process, or dedicated Saint Marys released-person roster. Call for current instructions before a planned pickup or visit. Ask which office holds the requested record and note the date of the answer.
Agency facility and directory sources cited here were accessed in August 2026. Verify live contact details before relying on them.
Note: Personnel and local procedures can change, so rely on the official facility and WVDCR contact pages for current routing.
How Saint Marys Became a Prison
WVDCR says the site was once the Colin Anderson Center, which was established in 1932. The center closed in spring 1998, and the property transitioned to a medium-security correctional institution. This history is a distinctive part of Pleasants County’s custody map. A major state prison stands inside a small county even though local arrestees commonly go to a regional jail in another county.
The WVDCR FY2025 annual report describes Saint Marys as a general-population institution with specialized units, including a geriatric unit, and male classifications ranging from Level IV to Level I. Those details explain why the population is statewide and varied. They do not supply a release count, a discharge schedule, or a promise about any one resident’s security level or release path.
The former-site history also prevents a common records error. An old reference to the Colin Anderson Center should not be treated as a current facility name, and a modern Saint Marys correctional record should not be mistaken for a county booking merely because both use a Pleasants County address.
Saint Marys Statewide Prison Records
Search the sentencing county shown in the offender record, not just Pleasants. A prisoner at Saint Marys may have a judgment from any West Virginia county. The sentencing court establishes the term and legal judgment. WVDCR applies jail credit, good time, disciplinary changes, and other lawful inputs to its time sheet. The two records should be reconciled rather than substituted for one another.
For eligible prisoners, West Virginia Code §15A-4-17 governs good time and related minimum-discharge calculations. The framework is not a universal 85-percent rule. Life sentences receive no good time, and offense rules, credited jail days, concurrent or consecutive terms, forfeitures, restorations, program credit, and later orders may change the result. Only the current time sheet can show how WVDCR applied those inputs in a named case.
Request Saint Marys Release Records
A precise request separates the release event from sentence computation and parole action. Under West Virginia Code §29B-1-3, direct the request to the public-record custodian and describe existing records with reasonable specificity. The agency may apply exemptions and redact protected fields. Ask it to segregate nonexempt material rather than withholding an entire record because one field cannot be disclosed.
For a Saint Marys release, provide the legal name, date of birth or offender number, sentencing county, known case number, and a bounded date range. Then request the existing records that answer the question:
- release transaction with date, time, type, and authority;
- movement history that identifies any destination or transfer;
- current releasable sentence-computation statement or time sheet;
- parole or mandatory-supervision release terms, when applicable;
- final discharge entry if the sentence and supervision ended.
The statutory response can consist of production, an inspection time and place, or a written denial within the stated period. It does not force staff to create a new report or calculate a date for the requester. If one office refers the request, preserve that referral and send the narrower record name to the identified custodian.
Pair the result with the exact OIS and VINE wording captured on the access date. That record chain distinguishes a projected date from an actual exit, a parole decision from completed processing, and a transfer from return to the community.