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New River Valley Regional Jail Overview

New River Valley Regional Jail is the only facility in the Giles County facility map. It is a regional adult jail at 108 Baker Road in Dublin, Virginia, operated by the New River Valley Regional Jail Authority. Official locality sources identify it as serving Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Pulaski, Wythe, and the City of Radford. It holds adult men and women from those jurisdictions, along with federal inmates and outside-jurisdiction inmates when accepted.

The jail is outside Giles County, but it is the practical custody facility for many Giles County arrests that do not end in release at the magistrate stage. That distinction should guide travel, bond, visitation, mail, records, and inmate lookup questions. A person arrested in Pearisburg or another Giles County community may have a sheriff or town police arrest record locally, a jail custody record at NRVRJ, and a court case in Giles General District or Circuit Court.

The facility includes administrative offices, a magistrate's office, booking, public and professional visiting areas, kitchen, laundry, library, classrooms, medical unit, outdoor recreation yards, and a secure vehicle sallyport. NRVRJ also reports video-arraignment capability with member-jurisdiction courts, which can reduce inmate transports for early court events.

New River Valley Jail Population

The 2023 Virginia Jail Capacity Report lists New River Valley Regional Jail with 859 operational beds, 1,183 total or double-bunked capacity, 44 medical or mental-health or special-use beds, 110 other nonrated beds, and annualized average daily population of 651.41. These figures are facility-wide. They are not a Giles-only jail population because NRVRJ serves a multi-county region and may hold federal or outside-jurisdiction inmates.

The facility history adds context to those figures. NRVRJ says its first prisoners arrived on April 27, 1999, with an initial count of 248 men and women. The 2010 expansion raised capacity, while the 2023 annualized count shows the jail below its operational-bed figure on an average-day basis.

Lookup New River Valley Inmates

The correct online roster for this regional jail is the NRVRJ inmate lookup. It is the main search path for Giles County arrestees housed at the jail. It has a name route and an identifier route. It also has a released-inmate checkbox that may help when a person bonded out, transferred, or completed a brief stay.

1. Open the official NRVRJ inmate lookup linked from the jail's inmate information menu.
2. Start with last name. Add first name only if results are too broad.
3. Enter date of birth only when the date is known and formatted as MM/DD/YYYY.
4. Use identifier search only with a known PIN, PCP, SID, CID, FBI, or INS number.
5. If no result appears, call 540-643-2000 and check VADOC, BOP, ICE, VINE, or Virginia courts as the facts require.

The inmate information hub is the best official starting point after a lookup because it links to bonding, accounts, mail, phones, visitation, property, and programs.

The hub helps separate custody lookup from post-booking services such as deposits, phone accounts, mail, and visits.

New River Valley Jail Contact

Use the jail's official contact details for current custody, visitation, public-counter, or records routing questions. The Giles County Sheriff's Office may help with arrest-agency context, but it does not replace the regional jail's custody confirmation for someone housed at NRVRJ.

Visit New River Valley Jail

NRVRJ maintains separate official pages for family and friends visitation, attorney visitation, and clergy visitation. The research did not capture a complete current family/friends schedule, so visitors should verify the current schedule and rules before travel. People coming from Giles County should plan for the Dublin location and should not assume the jail is near the Giles County courthouse in Pearisburg.

The official visitation screenshot is from the NRVRJ visitation hub.

The separate visitation paths matter because legal, clergy, and family visits are handled under different access rules.

New River Valley Mail and Money

Personal inmate mail is processed through P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. The envelope must include the full facility name and state, inmate full name and identifier, and the sender's full name and physical address. Legal mail is not sent to the Phoenix personal-mail address, and checks or money orders should not be treated as ordinary personal mail. Photo rules are detailed and bar identification documents, nudity, certain screenshots, illegal drug or gun content, blocked faces, and similar items.

NRVRJ account options include booking-account deposits, money orders, lobby kiosk deposits, ConnectNetwork trust-fund deposits, and AdvancePay phone-account funding. Housing-unit phones operate during listed windows, and inmates may make debit, prepaid, or collect calls. They cannot receive incoming calls.

Booking at New River Valley Jail

For a Giles County arrest, the path can run from arrest by a sheriff's deputy, town police officer, state trooper, or another agency to magistrate review, then transport to NRVRJ if release is not granted. Booking records identity, arrest paperwork, property, money, fingerprints, and photos as required. NRVRJ says its booking department can take digital fingerprints and transmit them to a central databank.

Bond decisions often begin with the magistrate. NRVRJ's bonding page explains that a defendant is brought before a magistrate when an arrest warrant has been issued for a criminal-law violation. Bond may be recognizance, unsecured, secured, surety, or denied. Holds and detainers from other agencies can prevent release even when a local bond is paid.

New River Valley Jail Records

For jail-held booking or custody records, use the NRVRJ FOIA statement. For sheriff incident or arrest records, start with the Giles County Sheriff's Office. For court charges, hearings, and dispositions, search Virginia court case information or contact the appropriate Giles court. Virginia FOIA requires a request to reasonably identify existing records, and law-enforcement exemptions may apply to active investigations, juveniles, victims or witnesses, medical information, sealed records, and security-sensitive material.

NRVRJ records do not replace court records. A booking charge may change after the Commonwealth's Attorney reviews the case, amends a charge, dismisses it, obtains an indictment, or proceeds in a different court. Use the Giles County court records after jail arrest page for the post-booking court path.

About New River Valley Jail

NRVRJ's original 140,000-square-foot facility began construction in May 1997 on a 28-acre Dublin Industrial Park site. Brown & Root Construction Company built the jail for $28.4 million, with the Commonwealth of Virginia sharing half the construction cost. The jail used pre-cast concrete structures made by the Tindall Company in Petersburg and trucked to Dublin. The first prisoners arrived on April 27, 1999.

A five-story, 139,000-square-foot expansion began in March 2008 and was completed in February 2010. NRVRJ lists programs that include Alcoholics Anonymous, anger management, GED classes, substance abuse classes, workforce readiness, and religious programs. Participation is voluntary, and inmates can sign up during classification. Program services come from contracted professionals, community volunteers, and other approved providers.