Pamunkey Regional Jail Release Routes
Pamunkey Regional Jail is the primary local jail serving New Kent. The New Kent County Sheriff's Office arrests and transports people but does not run a jail. Once PRJ accepts a person, its intake staff check committing papers, inventory property, and create the booking record. Records staff later enter court dispositions, verify charge and bond data, calculate applicable credit, check required papers, and process a release or turnover.
A community release can follow bond, a court order, time served, or sentence expiration when no other authority has a hold. A person may instead leave PRJ for VADOC, another locality, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, or another authorized custodian. Each ends PRJ's physical possession, but only the first path returns the person to the community. Request the release type and receiving-agency field rather than translating every roster removal into “free.”
| PRJ exit | Likely next source |
|---|---|
| Bond or court-order release | PRJ release entry plus New Kent court order |
| Sentence completion | PRJ time-credit and release record |
| VADOC turnover | VADOC locator and eventual signed release papers |
| Other jail transfer | PRJ destination plus receiving jail |
| Federal handoff | Federal docket, USMS records, or BOP when sentenced |
Confirm Pamunkey Jail Release Records
The official Who's In Jail product is a current-custody roster. It shows name, inmate ID, demographics, arresting agency, booking date and time, charges, and sometimes court data. It does not show a release date, release time, reason, receiving agency, archive window, or individual photo. A name's absence is only a lead.
- Search the current roster by exact name and note the inmate ID, New Kent arresting agency, booking date, and case details.
- Call Booking/Release at 804-365-6400 extension 3043 or Records at extension 3033.
- Ask when PRJ custody ended, the recorded authority or type, and whether another agency received the person.
- Compare the response with the entered New Kent court disposition or bond order.
- If transferred, search VADOC, the receiving jail, BOP, or ICE as the record directs.
Important: PRJ publishes no 24-hour or 72-hour release feed. Do not infer a release by comparing roster snapshots.
The roster image documents the current product and its limits. Open the official PRJ roster for the live version.
The generic badge and current fields reinforce why the release record must come from Booking/Release or Records.
Pamunkey Jail Records Contact
Operational verification can begin by telephone. A formal request is better when the date, type, or destination must be documented. Ask for existing records, not a new opinion. Useful items include the booking sheet, custody-status history, actual date and time custody ended, recorded release authority or type, receiving agency if releasable, and the maintained release form or court order.
7240 Courtland Farm Road
Hanover, VA 23069
804-365-6400
Booking/Release ext. 3043
Records ext. 3033
Public hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays
FOIA requests may be sent to the FOIA Administrator, PO Box 510, Hanover, VA 23069, at extension 3008 or FOIA@pamunkeyjail.gov. PRJ has not published a fixed release-record fee or retention period. Ask for electronic copies, an advance estimate, and redaction of exempt matter rather than full withholding. The PRJ FOIA page is the current official route.
Pamunkey Regional Jail Operations
The Pamunkey Regional Jail Authority formed in 1993, and the facility opened March 1, 1998. It is an adult regional jail rather than a New Kent county department. The 2025 annual report describes 127,000 square feet, 15 housing units, capacity for 530, and average population of about 333 during that reporting period. Those are facility-wide facts.
The annual release count covers the whole regional facility, not New Kent alone. It also includes operational events that require context. The same report records 4,089 bookings and 423 New Kent transports. These figures help explain the volume of records work but do not create a person-level release list.
PRJ holds adult men and women at different custody levels. The report documents work-release units and Friday-through-Sunday “weekender” sentences. It does not publish a routine community-release time, release door, family waiting site, ride service, holiday rule, or full property-return procedure. Booking/Release must answer those person-specific questions.
Pamunkey Jail Federal Handoffs
A published agreement between PRJ and the U.S. Marshals Service authorizes certain federal detainees at the regional jail. It covers federal pretrial prisoners, people awaiting BOP designation or transport, and some proceedings within its terms. The agreement provides that PRJ releases a federal detainee only to the committing federal agent or a Deputy U.S. Marshal.
This rule makes local roster absence especially easy to misread. A person could have left PRJ for court, federal transport, BOP designation, or another placement while remaining confined. For a sentenced federal person, use the BOP locator. For federal pretrial custody, the docket and a focused USMS records request are usually better. A BOP “Released” result means no longer in BOP custody, not necessarily free of all jurisdictions or federal supervision.
The agreement contains immigration-related language, but the research found no current official ICE listing proving active routine ICE use of PRJ. If a release record names an immigration handoff, search ICE ODLS and contact the responsible office. Do not present PRJ as a standalone federal or ICE facility.
Pamunkey Jail Replaced Henrico
New Kent's current jail path changed on July 1, 2024. Official county minutes say all New Kent inmates were to move from Henrico County Jail East to PRJ. A later county record described the jail distance increasing from roughly 6.5 miles to 35 miles, 320 after-hours trips in the prior fiscal year, and weekday arrangements for PRJ court transport.
Those trips are secure prisoner movements, not rides home after release. Still, the history matters when searching records. A current New Kent detainee should be checked at PRJ first. An episode before the transition may require a Henrico request. Old directories that send every New Kent search to Henrico are stale.
The date also helps scope a records request. Give PRJ the booking date for a recent episode. For an older episode, ask the Sheriff which jail received the person and then contact that custodian. The New Kent County Sheriff's Office record page explains which arrest and transport documents remain with the Sheriff.
Obtain Pamunkey Release Proof
The strongest local proof is a PRJ custody-history or release record that identifies the date and time, disposition, and receiving agency. A New Kent court order is strong evidence of legal authority but cannot prove the hour PRJ completed processing or rule out another hold. A VINE event is useful near the event, yet local alerts can combine release and transfer.
Use two stable identifiers whenever possible. Full name and date of birth, PRJ inmate ID, booking date, New Kent arresting agency, and court case number reduce false matches. Keep dates labeled. A booking date, court-order date, release date, and supervision start date describe different events.
When records conflict, compare timestamps and scope. Then contact the custodian. The New Kent County release search places PRJ, both New Kent court levels, VADOC, VINE, and federal sources in the right order. The goal is not just to prove that a web card vanished. It is to document where custody went.
Pamunkey Jail Internal Release Fields
PRJ's annual report describes internal records that are richer than the public roster. Intake creates a computer record with charges, identifying and medical information, scars, marks, tattoos, fingerprints, and inventoried property. Records staff enter court dispositions, obtain transport orders, verify charge and bond data, calculate credit for time served at other facilities, track weekender days, and check the paperwork needed for release or VADOC turnover. Not every internal field is automatically public.
A focused request should name the existing components most likely to answer the release question. Ask for the booking or intake sheet, custody-status history, actual date and time PRJ custody ended, recorded release authority or category, destination or receiving agency when releasable, and the maintained court order or release form. Supply a date of birth, approximate arrest date, PRJ inmate ID or case number, and New Kent as the arresting locality.
If PRJ produces only part of the file, review the release date, type, and destination separately from redacted material. If it reports no record, check aliases and confirm whether the episode predates New Kent's move from Henrico. A correction request should identify the disputed field and include the supporting court order. The annual report documents an internal correction path, but it gives no public correction form or response deadline.