Check Nottoway Correctional Center Releases

Nottoway Correctional Release Paths

Nottoway Correctional Center is an active Virginia Department of Corrections institution in Burkeville. It is not the regional jail for Nottoway arrests. People there serve under state authority. When a person leaves the institution, the event can be an internal transfer to another VADOC site, a transition to probation, parole for an eligible sentence, post-release supervision, or final discharge. Physical absence from the Burkeville prison proves none of those by itself.

The responsible system is VADOC. PRJ JailTracker and local Jail VINE cover regional-jail custody, not this state-prison episode. A Nottoway court record may explain a sentence or later order, but it does not record the gate event. Confirm the result through VADOC’s locator, the agency’s time-computation or release record, and a supervision office when the sentence includes community oversight.

Search Nottoway Correctional Releases

The VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator is the correct public starting point. Use the seven-digit DOC ID when known. It is more precise than a name. Otherwise, enter the full last name and the first-name information required by the form, accept its disclaimer, and complete the CAPTCHA. Compare the name, identifying details, DOC number, location, status, and date on the selected record.

1. Search by DOC ID, or use the required first-name letters and full last name.
2. Open the matching result and confirm Nottoway Correctional Center or the later VADOC location.
3. Read the exact status and the field labeled Release Date.
4. If a district office appears, treat that as community supervision, not confinement in the office.
5. If no record appears, request the existing release, discharge, transfer, or inactive-offender record.

VADOC describes the locator as updated daily and warns that its data can be inaccurate or out of date. The field named Release Date can be a calculation for a current prisoner. It is not an actual exit timestamp until the event occurs. Fully inactive former offenders may fall outside the public locator. Absence therefore does not establish that no VADOC record exists.

Nottoway Correctional Release Dates

A VADOC release calculation can reflect the controlling sentence, credit for qualifying pretrial confinement, concurrent or consecutive terms, offense dates, earned sentence credits, conduct class, disciplinary changes, amended court orders, and other holds. Virginia’s often-used “85 percent” phrase is not a date calculator. Credit rates and exclusions vary under Virginia law, and VADOC performs the official computation. A displayed date can change before release.

Virginia separates older Good Conduct Allowance rules from Earned Sentence Credits for many later felony offenses. The applicable scheme depends in part on the offense date and sentence. Current earned-credit law includes different class levels and limits enhanced credit for specified offenses. Credit for qualifying confinement before trial is another input under Virginia Code § 53.1-187. These details explain why a reader should obtain VADOC’s computation instead of multiplying the sentence by a common percentage. When a court changes an order, the corrected document must reach the authority that calculates the date before the public field can reflect it.

For a current prisoner, record the label exactly as VADOC publishes it. Do not turn Release Date into “released on” or “exit time.” A transfer, detainer, or later court order may alter what happens on that date. For a person who has left prison, check whether the locator shows a probation or parole district. That district listing means the person is supervised in the community. It does not mean the person is jailed at an office.

Release Date

VADOC’s public date label, which may be an estimate before the event.

Transfer

Movement within or into another custody system, not community release.

Supervision

Community oversight after incarceration, based on the sentence or lawful release type.

Discharge

The formal end of the identified VADOC custody or supervision status.

Nottoway Correctional Records Contact

For a record tied to this institution, send the request to the unit manager, warden, or VADOC office that maintains it. Name the person, seven-digit DOC ID if known, date of birth, Nottoway Correctional Center, and approximate custody dates. Ask for an existing transfer, time-computation, release, discharge, or supervision-transition record. A focused request is easier to identify and avoids asking staff to create a new explanation.

The VADOC public-records page says requests may be made by mail, fax, email, in person, or telephone, with written requests preferred. Central FOIA contact is FOIA@vadoc.virginia.gov, (804) 963-2953, VADOC, P.O. Box 26963, Richmond, VA 23261. The central main line is (804) 674-3000. Some prison, security, medical, victim, probation, and parole material may be withheld or redacted under Virginia law.

For a fully inactive former offender, VADOC Operating Procedure 050.6 identifies Form 17, Request for Records for an Inactive Offender. Form 14 supplies consent when required. Request public commitment, time-computation, release or discharge, and supervision-discharge records as applicable. A public locator no-result is not a substitute for that process.

Nottoway State Facility Directory

The official VADOC facilities and offices directory separately lists Nottoway Correctional Center and Nottoway Work Center at the Burkeville address. VADOC’s 2026 visitation-table announcement also confirms current operation. The directory is valuable for checking the proper institution name and contact before sending a request.

The separate listings matter. A searcher should not merge a prison placement with the co-located work center. Use the exact facility shown in the offender record and include it in any request. Contact names can change, so the live directory should be checked even though the research-time entry named Warden Kenneth Goldman.

Note: A facility directory confirms the office and prison identity; it does not confirm that a named person is still there or has left.

Nottoway Prison Court Records

Nottoway Correctional Center can generate Nottoway court records that have nothing to do with a PRJ booking. A March 2025 VADOC release described a correctional-officer assault indictment returned by a Nottoway grand jury and a pending Circuit Court case. The example shows why the facility and case identifiers must be reconciled. A search result in Nottoway Circuit Court may concern conduct inside a state prison rather than an adult arrested and booked at the regional jail.

The court file and prison file answer separate questions. The clerk can supply the charging or final order as public access permits. VADOC records the resulting placement, sentence computation, transfer, and release transition. Match the case number, DOC ID, offense date, and institution before joining the two sources. That prevents an event involving a staff member, another incarcerated person, or a namesake from being assigned to the wrong custody record.

Court files can establish charges, orders, convictions, and sentences. VADOC remains the source for the institution’s physical custody and release computation. Do not infer that a court disposition caused immediate exit, and do not infer that a prison no-result means the case vanished. The sources record different events.

Nottoway Facility Release Boundaries

Nottoway County includes several systems close enough to be confused. PRJ is a regional adult jail in Farmville. Nottoway Correctional Center and Nottoway Work Center are VADOC facilities in Burkeville. Piedmont Regional Juvenile Detention Center holds children under confidential court processes. The Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation is secure civil treatment, not incarceration. A correct release search begins by choosing the right system.

The VCBR facility source and a Virginia budget item document one sharp boundary: a VCBR resident arrested for a new offense may be held at PRJ. That transfer moves the person into criminal detention rather than releasing the person to the community. In the same way, departure from Nottoway Correctional Center for another VADOC institution remains state custody.

When the person does enter the community, identify whether supervision follows. VADOC Community Corrections manages probation, parole, and other state supervision. A full discharge is different from release to an active district. The Nottoway County release record overview can help reconcile state, regional, and court records without collapsing them into one roster.