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About This Site

Finding a released Mason County inmate is rarely a matter of checking one county roster. Western Regional Jail records, the state prison search, Mason court orders, parole and probation contacts, VINE notices, and federal locators answer different parts of the question. This private reference site brings those official paths into one organized place so readers can identify the right custodian and ask for the right release record.

Why This Resource Exists

West Virginia routes county detention through regional jails. For Mason County, the main adult jail is Western Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in Barboursville. WVDCR operates it, even when the arrest and court case began in Mason County. A person who later serves a state sentence may appear in the separate prison search. Someone released on parole has left physical custody but remains under WVDCR supervision, while probation is imposed through the court. Federal and immigration custody use still other systems.

This site gathers those distinctions, official search links, office contacts, and focused records-request steps. The home page covers both parts of a released-inmate inquiry: what a release record means and how to find a person after an active jail entry changes. Facility pages identify the proper release-search route for Western, Lakin, state prison, brief local holding, BOP, and federal or immigration custody.

Information Organized Here

The material is arranged around the kind of custody and record involved. Readers will find:

  • A full Mason County release search and release-record process on the home page.
  • Separate help for an inmate release date, a VINELink release check, and parole or probation.
  • Pages for each adult detention system in the Facility Map, with verified contact and release-routing details.
  • Clear warnings that Mason has no verified official 24-hour or 72-hour release feed.
  • Steps for a narrow WVDCR record request and for obtaining a Mason court order.

The goal is clarity, not a copied roster or mugshot gallery. A court order can explain the legal authority for release. WVDCR records the physical jail event. VINE can report a status change. None should be silently substituted for another.

Limits and Independence

Mason County Released Inmates is privately operated. It has no connection to the Mason County Sheriff, Western Regional Jail, Lakin Correctional Center and Jail, WVDCR, the West Virginia Parole Board, the courts, BOP, ICE, or any other government office. We cannot confirm a person’s current custody or release, and we do not hold government records.

We also cannot release or transfer anyone, post bond, arrange a visit, send funds, change a government record, or give legal advice. Addresses, fees, office hours, and portal fields may change after publication. Only the office that created a record can issue or correct its official copy.

Use the linked agency source to verify custody, release, court, or supervision facts. This private site can only identify the appropriate route.

Search Partner Disclosure

Some pages contain search boxes supplied by outside providers. Those providers control their databases, terms, pricing, and results. A search may lead to a paid enrollment, and this site may receive a referral fee when a reader chooses a partner service. That support helps keep the public reference material available at no charge. We do not set a partner’s price, decide what it returns, or certify its record as an official Mason County or West Virginia document.