Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Inmate Search

Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Overview

Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The facility is in Moundsville in Marshall County, not in Wetzel County, but the live WVDCR facility page names Wetzel as one of the counties served. That distinction matters because Wetzel County official pages did not show a sheriff-run jail, a detention-division page, or a county-hosted inmate roster. For a Wetzel County arrest, the practical custody trail runs through the WVDCR regional jail system.

The live WVDCR page lists Northern Regional as serving Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Tyler, and Wetzel counties. The research also found a current official-source conflict: the WVDCR FY2025 Annual Report names North Central Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in connection with Wetzel County detention. Northern is treated as the primary Wetzel facility because the live facility page specifically names Wetzel, but current custody should be checked through WVDCR's county search tools and by phone before travel.

The WVDCR facility page used for this build is the source for the facility name, location, phone number, service counties, superintendent listing, and opening year: official Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility page.

The screenshot anchors the facility page to the state source that currently names Wetzel County, while the rest of the page explains how to verify a person's exact holding location.

Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Capacity and Population

The WVDCR FY2025 Annual Report lists Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility with a rated population of 289. The same report describes Northern as a male Level I-V special-management population, and the live facility page presents it as both a regional jail and correctional facility. It should not be described as a simple county holding cell or as a Wetzel sheriff jail.

A dated October 2025 news report cited DCR data shared with lawmakers and said Northern Regional had 388 inmates against the rated population of 289, including 75 immigrant detainees. That is useful capacity context, not a current daily count. The Wetzel County current daily roster count was not captured because the WVDCR county search requires reCAPTCHA and should be checked directly by the reader.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility

For regional-jail detainees, start with the WVDCR Offender Search for Jails. The jail search requires at least the first three letters of the last name, allows an optional first name, and uses reCAPTCHA. For a county-filtered daily custody list, use WVDCR Daily Incarcerations and select Wetzel County from the county dropdown. The Daily Incarcerations page also has an admissions-by-institution path; the inspected July 2, 2026 admissions page showed two Northern Regional admissions that day.

If a person has been sentenced into WVDCR prison custody, moved to active supervision, or placed on parole status, use the WVDCR prison/offender search instead of the jail search. For release notification rather than a one-time search, use West Virginia VINELink or WV VINE by phone at 1-866-WV4-VINE. The WVDCR jail search disclaimer says location, release date, status, and related data can change quickly, so court users should verify current custody before relying on online results.

1. Open WVDCR Offender Search for Jails for a name-based regional-jail search.
2. Enter at least the first three letters of the last name, add the first name if known, and complete the required verification.
3. Use Daily Incarcerations with Wetzel County selected when the goal is today's county custody list.
4. Confirm the listed facility, release status, bond questions, and visiting availability by calling Northern Regional at 304-843-4067.

Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Address and Contact

Use the facility contact information for custody confirmation, visiting questions, and travel planning. Wetzel County's sheriff page describes law-enforcement, court-process, prisoner-transport, extradition, and bailiff duties, but it does not publish a Wetzel sheriff jail information line. The facility phone number is therefore the direct source for Northern Regional custody and visit logistics.

Northern Regional sits outside the county-seat area in New Martinsville. The DCR page provides the address and map link but did not publish detailed parking, transit, ADA entrance, or visitor-entry instructions in the reviewed source. Travelers from Wetzel County should use the exact DCR address in mapping software and call ahead to confirm the entrance, parking, and whether the person is still held there.

Visiting Someone at Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility

No Northern-specific in-person visitation schedule was found on the live WVDCR facility page reviewed for this build. Do not assume the North Central schedule applies at Northern. WVDCR does identify GettingOut as the statewide calling and video-visit contractor, and a WVDCR support document points users to GettingOut visit support and 866-516-0115. In-person visit rules, identity requirements, child rules, attorney visit handling, holiday changes, and lockdown changes should be confirmed directly with Northern Regional.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility

WVDCR uses a central scanned-mail system for jail and prison mail. The mailing format from the WVDCR mail page requires the incarcerated person's first and last name and OID number, the full facility name without abbreviations, and the Phoenix, Maryland processing address. The sender must include a full return address with complete first and last name; initials are not enough. The research notes that photographs, multiple-offender letters in one envelope, attachments, and enclosures are not allowed in scanned letters.

Exact commissary spending limits, remote video prices, and facility-specific package restrictions for Wetzel detainees were not located in official sources. Confirm current rules through WVDCR, ConnectNetwork, GettingOut, or the facility before sending money or ordering packages.

Booking and Intake at Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility

After a Wetzel County arrest or warrant service, an officer may transport the person to a WVDCR regional jail for admission. The exact facility may need to be verified because official WVDCR materials connect Wetzel County with both Northern and North Central. WVDCR jail admission policy and the DCR jail handbook material support that booking includes search, identification, fingerprinting, photographing, ID card issuance, medical screening, and classification-related steps. West Virginia jail health rules also require receiving medical screening at admission on an approved form.

A jail booking record is not the final court record. WVDCR's disclaimer cautions that sentencing information in the jail database is not intended to reflect the underlying criminal action and that the court with jurisdiction controls the court record. For a Wetzel arrest, court follow-up usually runs through Wetzel County Magistrate Court for initial appearances, bail, misdemeanors, and preliminary felony matters, and through Circuit Court for felony filings and circuit-level case records.

About Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility

The live WVDCR page says Northern Regional opened in 1994. The West Virginia Blue Book history reviewed in the research says the facility was dedicated on August 24, 1994 after the old West Virginia Penitentiary closed, and describes it as West Virginia's only combined correctional facility and regional jail facility. That history helps explain why Northern's page should be written as a combined regional jail/correctional-facility page, not as a county-sheriff jail page.

WVDCR FY2025 materials give broader statewide context: the agency reported legislative and leadership attention to jail overcrowding, correctional officer pay, addiction recovery, rehabilitation, and reentry services. Statewide WVDCR offender services include offender banking, calling, packages, reentry planning, and jail handbook resources. The research did not locate a Wetzel sheriff jail lawsuit, county-specific jail construction project, consent decree, or recent jail closure tied to Northern.

For federal or immigration custody, do not rely on the regional-jail search alone. The BOP inmate locator covers federal sentenced inmates from 1982 to present, and ICE ODLS covers ICE custody searches. Those locators are not public mugshot galleries and do not replace WVDCR lookup for ordinary Wetzel County regional-jail custody.