Find Duffield Facility Releases

Duffield Facility Release Paths

The Duffield Facility can end a Scott County booking in several ways. A person may leave for the community after bond, dismissal, time served, sentence completion, or another court-authorized release. The same roster change can also reflect a transfer to Abingdon, Haysi, or Tazewell within SWVRJA. A state sentence may lead to Virginia Department of Corrections custody, while another warrant, federal process, or immigration hold may send the person to a different custodian.

The wording of the final event matters. “Released from Duffield” identifies the sending facility only. It does not establish that the person was free of all custody. Ask whether the record says release or transfer, the date and time of that event, its stated reason, and any destination agency. A court dismissal may explain why one case ended, yet another hold can still keep the person confined. The custody record and court order answer different parts of the question.

Confirm a Duffield Facility Release

The official Current Facility Inmates page is the first check, but its label defines its limit. It is an authority-wide current-custody tool, not a release archive. Search the person across SWVRJA rather than looking only for Duffield. A current match identifies ongoing regional custody. No match can mean release, transfer outside the authority, a data change, or a search mismatch.

Use a short, ordered check so each source answers the question it was built to answer:

1. Search the authority-wide current roster using the person's name and compare any available booking details.
2. If no current match appears, review Scott County court records for the bond, dismissal, sentence, or other order tied to the booking.
3. Ask SWVRJA for the booking record and final custody-event record, including release versus transfer and destination.
4. If the event points to VADOC, BOP, or ICE, continue in that system before describing a community release.
5. Compare identifiers and dates, then retain the agency response that supplies the final event.

For a broader named-person workflow, the Scott County release search and records coverage explains how the jail, court, state, federal, and notification sources fit together.

Note: A roster search time should be recorded because a live result and a later custody event may both be accurate.

Duffield Release Records Contact

Facility staff can address current operational questions, but the regional authority's FOIA contact is the documented route for an ended booking. The SWVRJA contact page lists the facility, while the live FOIA page identifies the current records recipient. That separation helps avoid sending a historical release request to an office that only handles present facility matters.

Legal mail uses the inmate's name and P.O. Box 367, Duffield, VA 24244. That mailing rule is for legal mail, not the substitute address for a public-record request. A focused request may be made by mail, fax, email, telephone, or in person. Written form is useful because it fixes the name, booking date range, and fields requested.

Duffield Custody Record Fields

A useful Duffield release record identifies the person and the exact booking before it describes the end of custody. Name alone is weak when names repeat or one person has several admissions. Ask for the booking number, booking date and time, recorded facility, final event date and time, event type, stated disposition or reason, and receiving agency when the record shows a transfer.

Virginia law requires local jailers to keep commitment and prisoner records. SWVRJA's FOIA procedure also identifies offender case-management records, logs, rosters, and management reports among the authority's records. Access can still involve redaction, exemptions, and actual-cost charges. Ask for reasonably segregable nonexempt fields and an estimate before costs exceed a limit you choose.

Duffield's Four-Site Release Chain

Scott County uses a four-site regional authority rather than a standalone sheriff jail. The Scott County Regional Jail Authority page documents that local role. SWVRJA lists Duffield beside Abingdon, Haysi, and Tazewell. This structure is the central local fact behind release verification: searching only the phrase “Scott County Jail” can miss the agency that actually holds the record.

Duffield is physically in Scott County, but the authority-wide locator does not treat each site as a sealed custody system. An internal move can remove a person from Duffield while leaving the person within SWVRJA. When the path is unclear, request the complete custody-event chain, including both sending and receiving facility entries. The result should show whether the last Duffield event led to another authority site, another custodian, or a community release.

The four-site model also affects court comparisons. A Scott County court order may concern the legal basis for release while the physical event is recorded at a different SWVRJA facility. Match the booking, case, and dates rather than assuming the last facility was Duffield.

Note: No official Duffield release time, exit door, waiting area, or routine transportation service was verified in the research.

Duffield Release Source Conflicts

When sources appear to disagree, compare their scope before choosing one. A court order is legal authority, but it may not show the time staff completed the release or whether another hold intervened. Virginia Jail VINE can give timely notice that SWVRJA reported a change, but the alert may describe a transfer boundary. The current roster shows present regional custody and does not certify an earlier release event.

The SWVRJA final custody entry is the closest primary record for the physical end of a Duffield booking. Pair it with the court disposition for the legal reason. If VINE reports release, ask SWVRJA whether the event was community release or transfer. If VADOC later shows a prison or supervision location, use that result only for the state layer. A deletion from one database and an entry in another often describe the same handoff.

Custody event

A recorded admission, move, release, or transfer within an agency's custody chain.

Transfer

A handoff to another facility or authority while custody continues.

Community release

An end to the identified confinement that does not itself rule out supervision.

Discharge

The later end of a corrections agency's authority or supervision, when applicable.

Duffield Release Request Results

A precise request seeks existing records, not a new investigation. Identify the full name, a narrow booking or case date, and the booking number if known. Ask for the final release or transfer record and destination. SWVRJA may produce records, redact or withhold parts with a statutory basis, state that a record cannot be found, or use the additional response period allowed by law when a response is not practical within the normal period.

Charges may cover actual search, access, duplication, and supply costs. General overhead or a surplus is not the stated basis. If the response says no record exists, keep that separate from a denial based on an exemption. If fields are withheld, ask for the cited provision and all reasonably segregable nonexempt material. Narrowing the date span and requested fields can reduce both ambiguity and cost.

A booking photo can help match the booking, but it does not prove release. Likewise, an empty current-roster result is only a lead. The strongest Duffield conclusion names the event with care: community release, internal SWVRJA transfer, transfer to VADOC, or handoff to another authority.

Keep the final wording tied to the identified booking. If the response names another custodian, continue the timeline there instead of treating Duffield as the final source. This preserves the difference between a regional-jail exit, a transfer, and the later end of all custody.