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Pamunkey Regional Jail Custody

Caroline County Sheriff's Office court information explains why Pamunkey Regional Jail is central to Caroline County inmate lookup. Caroline's local jail closed in 1998, and Caroline joined the Pamunkey Regional Jail system with Hanover County and the Town of Ashland. That makes PRJ the county-jail-equivalent facility for most Caroline County arrests, even though the building is in Hanover County. Sheriff deputies still handle local law-enforcement work, court security, and inmate transport, but the public jail roster and day-to-day custody information route through PRJ.

PRJ is operated by the Pamunkey Regional Jail Authority. It holds adult male and female pretrial inmates, sentenced jail inmates, probation-violation holds, and other local custody cases from the participating jurisdictions. A Caroline County arrest may begin with the Caroline County Sheriff's Office or another law-enforcement agency, but once the person is committed to jail custody, PRJ becomes the place to check current status. That distinction matters because Caroline Detention Facility handles ICE detainees, and Caroline Correctional Unit is a VADOC state facility for sentenced state custody.

The Pamunkey Regional Jail homepage links the main public services a Caroline County reader needs: Who's In Jail, VINE, Visit An Inmate, Inmate Mail & Commissary, Legal/Professional Visits, FOIA, PREA, ADA, accreditation, documents, news, and the mobile app. The facility also publishes a values statement built around integrity, professionalism, commitment, honesty, trust, and respect. Those service links should be treated as the official starting point when a roster result needs to be matched with visitation, mail, records, or custody notification.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Capacity

Annual-report material cited in the Caroline research gives PRJ a total housing capacity of 495 inmates, a 127,000-square-foot building, and 14 housing units. The same source describes support areas that help explain why the facility is more than a booking counter: a medical infirmary, administrative section, central control section, general library, law library, kitchen, barbershop, laundry, and separate training rooms for staff and inmates. Medical infirmary details include two exam rooms, a dental laboratory, and six individual cells for people needing special medical attention, with two cells designed for highly contagious conditions.

Caroline-specific population data comes from the PRJ Authority FY2025 ACFR rather than from a live jail dashboard. The research records Caroline's FY2025 average daily population at PRJ as 70, with an average length of stay of 27 days and average monthly bookings of 73. Those figures are not the same as the full jail population because PRJ also houses Hanover, Ashland, and other categories. They do, however, show why a Caroline County inmate search may produce a regional roster with many people who are not tied to Caroline cases.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Roster Lookup

The official roster is the Pamunkey Regional Jail Who's In Jail page. It is free to view and does not require a public account for the roster list or public profile pages inspected in the research. The visible search tool uses one field labeled Type to Search. It does not show separate boxes for first name, last name, booking number, date of birth, facility, charge, release status, or arresting agency. Result cards use the inmate name format last name first, show a Read More link, and may span many pages because the roster covers the regional jail population.

1. Open the PRJ Who's In Jail roster from the official jail website.
2. Type part or all of the person's name into the Type to Search field.
3. Use pagination if the name is common or if the roster returns a long list.
4. Open Read More to view the public profile and charge block.
5. Call PRJ if the public result is unclear, recent, sealed, or tied to a release issue.

The roster is the best first step for current Caroline County jail custody, but it is not a full criminal-history system. It does not replace court records, VADOC state-prison records, ICE records, or a PRJ records request. For a broader custody walkthrough, the Caroline County jail inmate records page separates the roster, court, VADOC, ICE, and federal search channels.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Roster Image

The official roster screenshot from PRJ's Who's In Jail page shows the single public search field, current-inmate cards, Read More links, and pagination used for Caroline County jail roster searches.

The image also helps explain why the roster can show people arrested by agencies outside Caroline County. PRJ is regional, so a Caroline reader should confirm the arresting agency and court information on the profile before assuming the case belongs to Caroline County.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Contact

Use the jail's Hanover address and phone for custody questions, visit questions, records routing, and facility service questions. Use the Caroline County Sheriff's Office for local arresting-agency questions, not for jail lobby visits. The sheriff's page says people looking for someone arrested by a Caroline deputy should contact PRJ for inmate information, so the jail phone line is the practical fallback when the roster does not settle the question.

Records requests for jail authority records should use the PRJ FOIA page. Virginia FOIA can help with copies of existing public records, but it does not require an agency to answer general questions, create a new report, or release records that are exempt by law. For sheriff records created by Caroline County rather than PRJ, use Caroline County's public-records process.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Visits

The PRJ visit page routes video visits and messaging through GettingOut and routes phone calls and funding through ConnectNetwork/ViaPath. The extracted official text did not provide a fixed social-visit schedule, so do not rely on a guessed day or hour. Check the live PRJ visit page or call the jail before making the trip. Visitor rules can change by housing status, disciplinary status, safety needs, or vendor availability.

The official visit screenshot from Pamunkey Regional Jail's visit page shows the service split between video visits, messaging, phone calls, and funding.

That source is useful because it keeps the visit process tied to the jail's current vendor links instead of a copied schedule that may change.

The PRJ mobile ecosystem can also help. The Pamunkey Regional Jail app bridge advertises the Pamunkey Regional Jail (VA) app through MyOCV, with Apple and Google app links. Research found the app as another route to Who's In Jail, VINE, Visit An Inmate, Submit A Tip, Inmate Mail & Commissary, Legal/Professional Visits, PREA, accreditation, FOIA, ADA, news, events, address, directory, and ViaPath contact tools. No app-only roster was confirmed.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Mail

The PRJ mail and commissary page links to jailcanteen.com for commissary ordering and shows ViaPath/Oasis service branding. The PRJ FAQ gives a special scanned-mail address for personal mail. Personal mail should use the jail name, the inmate's full name and jacket number, and the Phoenix, Maryland address. The sender must place the sender's full name and physical address in the top left corner of the envelope.

Scanned personal mail is screened and electronically delivered to the inmate, so the Phoenix address is not the same as the jail's Hanover street address. Legal mail has different handling rules. When the inmate ID or jacket number is missing, confirm it through the roster profile or the jail before mailing.

Pamunkey Regional Jail Records

PRJ records and custody notifications serve different needs. A FOIA request asks for existing jail authority records, subject to Virginia law and exemptions. VINE is a notification tool for custody status, not a public-records request. The Virginia VINE page is available for custody status and notification service, and PRJ links VINE from its site and app ecosystem. Use VINE for alerts, the PRJ roster for a current public listing, and FOIA when a specific existing record is needed.

Accreditation and oversight material should also be kept in context. PRJ has a public accreditation page and a document feed that includes an Accreditation Letter 2024. Those materials do not tell a reader whether one person is still in custody, but they are useful when the question is about jail standards, facility operations, or recent public documentation.