Duffield Facility Release Records

Duffield Facility Release Paths

Duffield is a regional jail, not a Russell County jail run by the sheriff. The Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority operates it as part of one four-site system. A person may leave Duffield for the community after bond, recognizance, a court order, dismissal, completion of a local term, or release into probation. The person may instead move to Abingdon, Haysi, or Tazewell, another jail, the Virginia Department of Corrections, federal custody, or a medical setting. Only the first group describes a direct community release.

This distinction matters because the SWVRJA Current Facility Inmates page is authority-wide and current-only. It is not a Russell list and not a release archive. An inter-facility move may change the reporting location while custody continues. A transfer out of the authority can remove the name altogether. The final destination or receiving agency in the booking-and-release record is therefore as important as the exit date.

Confirming Duffield Facility Release

Use a sequence that tests each possible custody path. The live portal answers whether the person appears in current SWVRJA custody at the time of the check. Virginia Jail VINE can report a custody change, but its release-like notice may describe a transfer. Russell court records explain the order or sentence behind the event. The authority record supplies the precise jail event.

1. Search the authority-wide current portal with reasonable name variants. Record when the search was made.
2. Check SWVRJA's Virginia VINE service and read the event wording as shown.
3. Open the Russell criminal case through Virginia Courts and look for a bond, release, dismissal, or sentencing order.
4. If state responsibility is possible, search the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator.
5. Request the Duffield booking-and-release record when the public checks do not establish the date, type, or destination.

A VADOC match can show that local custody became state custody. An active district-office result can also support that prison custody ended while state supervision continues. Neither a VADOC no-result nor a missing SWVRJA name proves full discharge. For the broad Russell County search and release-record path, use the Russell County released inmate search.

Note: Court disposition explains legal cause, while the jail record identifies the actual custody exit and whether a transfer followed.

Duffield Facility Release Records

SWVRJA is ordinarily the custodian of records it created for booking, custody-location, property, and release. Its current Freedom of Information Act page names Melissa White as the records contact. Requests may be made by email, mail, fax, phone, or in person. A written request is useful because it fixes the identity, date range, requested fields, format, and cost limit.

Name the existing record rather than asking the authority to decide whether someone was released. Give the full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking range, and Russell County as the committing locality. Ask for the booking date and time, facility, inmate or booking number, release date and time, release disposition, receiving agency or destination, release documents, and property receipt. Request electronic copies and a cost estimate.

Virginia's usual response framework is five working days, though an allowed written extension can add seven workdays and some investigative-file requests may take longer. SWVRJA may charge actual search, access, duplication, and supply costs. No fixed Duffield release-record fee was published. A deposit may be required if the estimate exceeds $200.

Duffield Facility Release Contact

The facility contact is the best route for immediate procedural questions, including whether the caller has reached the correct SWVRJA site. Records requests still go through the central authority contact above. The facility has not published a distinct historical release archive or a Russell-only roster.

The official SWVRJA contact directory is the source for the address and phone. Virginia 211 expressly identifies Duffield as serving Russell, which makes Duffield the primary facility for this county's navigation. That statement does not guarantee placement. The authority can house a Russell detainee at another site, and the central roster must be checked before assuming a location.

Note: No published source gave Duffield release-desk hours, so call before relying on an in-person records visit.

Russell Releases Through Duffield

Duffield sits in Scott County while serving several Southwest Virginia jurisdictions. The Virginia 211 Duffield listing supplies the key Russell service connection. The screenshot below preserves that official service context without suggesting that each Russell arrest is booked or housed at Duffield.

The listing helps correct a common search error. Someone who types “Russell County Jail” may expect a single county building and roster. Modern adult detention is regional. Search all authority facilities first, then trace the release or transfer through VINE, court, VADOC, and the SWVRJA record.

Duffield Release Logistics Remain Unpublished

SWVRJA did not publish a fixed Duffield release time, exit door, family waiting place, weekend processing rule, transportation program, rideshare rule, or gate payment. Those details should not be borrowed from a state prison or another Virginia jail. VADOC's state-prison release procedures do not govern a regional-jail exit from Duffield.

Call the Duffield number for current instructions when arranging pickup. Keep plans flexible until the release is confirmed because court orders, paperwork, property return, and another hold may affect the actual exit. Four County Transit serves Russell and describes its service as fare-free, but no official source confirmed a jail-door stop or release ride from Duffield. It should be treated only as possible onward transportation within its service area.

Note: A planned pickup time is not a release record and should not replace confirmation from the facility or VINE.

Russell Jail History and Release Search

Russell County once had a small courthouse-adjacent jail built in 1912 and expanded in 1924–25. Adult custody now operates through the regional authority. This change is more than local color. It explains why a literal search for an active “Russell County Jail roster” points toward the wrong model of custody.

The county authority listing confirms the modern regional framework. A Russell case can lead to Duffield or another SWVRJA facility. That history supports a practical rule: match the person to the authority record and committing locality, not to an old facility name. Historical material does not establish current release policy, staffing, or where a particular person was held.

Community release

The person leaves jail custody under a lawful release basis.

Transfer

Custody moves to another facility or agency.

Discharge

A term or supervision obligation has formally ended.

Committing locality

The jurisdiction tied to the booking or court matter.

Duffield Release and Russell Courts

A Russell court record can explain why Duffield custody changed. General District Court handles misdemeanors and preliminary stages of felony cases. Circuit Court handles felony adjudication and appeals. The two clerks share a street address in Lebanon, but they keep different case files, mailing boxes, and phone lines. Select the court shown on the case rather than treating the shared location as one office.

Review the charge, case status, events, disposition, sentence, suspended time, and orders that are actually displayed. A bond order or dismissal may support a community-release path. A sentencing order may instead show why VADOC followed. Court action still cannot supply the exact Duffield exit time. Processing may occur after the judge acts, and a separate hold can keep the person confined. Pair the court result with VINE and the SWVRJA release record.

Online absence also has limits. Court material may remain on official retention schedules longer than the current jail roster, while sealing or expungement may restrict an ordinary public result. A blank search should lead to careful clerk contact and custody records, not a claim that no case or release existed.

Older Duffield Release Records

The Library of Virginia's GS-08 schedule calls for local and regional jail inmate incarceration files to be retained for three years after separation. Separation means the person's stay under that file series ended. It may reflect release or transfer, so the term should not be read as community release by itself.

This period is an archive route, not an online guarantee. A record component may belong to another series, be held longer for litigation or investigation, or contain lawfully withheld details. Court files can follow different schedules and may outlast the jail's live display. Ask promptly and narrowly for the existing Duffield fields needed to verify the event.

If the stay is older, use the Russell court disposition, any VADOC record, and the relevant receiving agency. State what each source proves. A court sentence is legal context, a VINE event is a custody-change notice, and the SWVRJA record is the source for the authority's precise release or transfer entry.