The Barbour County Inmate Population
Barbour County does not have a separate sheriff-run county jail building for routine detention. The local custody path runs through Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, a West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility serving Randolph, Tucker, Barbour, Preston, and Pocahontas counties. That regional role matters. A Tygart Valley population figure is not a Barbour-only count, even though it is the main jail population source for Barbour County jail users.
The Barbour County inmate population includes people booked after local arrests, people held before trial, short-sentence jail inmates, some sentenced felons still in a regional jail setting, and people later moved into state prison or supervision. The Barbour County Sheriff's Office remains central for law enforcement, transport, court security, and local arrest questions. Sheriff Brett Carpenter's county page lists the regional jail phone separately, which confirms that custody questions are routed to Tygart Valley rather than to a courthouse jail desk.
For a reader trying to find one person, the count is less useful than the custody stage. A recent arrest may appear on the Barbour County Sheriff's Office inmate roster. A regional jail match may appear in the WV Regional Jail offender search. A sentenced prison, parole, or supervision record belongs in the WVDCR DOC offender search.
Barbour County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest official figures are facility-level Tygart Valley numbers and state corrections counts tied to Barbour County. WVDCR's FY2025 annual report listed Tygart Valley with a rated population of 368 and an average daily count of 431. The same research set reported 2,493 Tygart Valley admissions in an FY2025 table and a Barbour County prison-offender count of 54 on or near June 30, 2025. The local roster, inspected July 2, 2026, showed 117 visible booking entries.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tygart Valley average daily count | 431 | WVDCR FY2025 annual report |
| Tygart Valley rated population | 368 | WVDCR FY2025 annual report |
| Tygart Valley capacity | 468 | Tygart Valley PREA audit, separate capacity figure |
| Visible Barbour roster entries | 117 | County roster inspection, July 2, 2026 |
| Barbour prison offenders by county | 54 | WVDCR FY2025 annual report, around June 30, 2025 |
Barbour County Jail Population Trends
The multi-year trend available in the research is a Tygart Valley admissions sequence from WVDCR's FY2025 annual report. It should be read as a regional jail trend, not as a Barbour-only jail booking count. The sequence shows Tygart Valley admissions moving up and down across fiscal years, with the highest displayed value in FY2020 and the lowest displayed value in the final FY2025 column. The report text captured the sequence, while the PDF column labels should be treated as annual-report labels rather than an independent Barbour County calculation.
| Fiscal Year | Tygart Valley Admissions | Trend Note |
|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 2,702 | Early point in the report sequence |
| FY2020 | 2,877 | Highest displayed value |
| FY2023 | 2,592 | Down from the FY2020 peak |
| FY2024 | 2,493 | Continued decline in the displayed sequence |
| FY2025 | 2,374 | Lowest displayed value |
Daily movement can look different from annual trend data. The WV Daily Incarcerations page showed Tygart Valley with 5 admissions on July 2, 2026, while the local Barbour roster showed 117 entries on the same inspection date. A daily admissions count measures new intake for a date. A roster entry count shows people visible on a public list at a point in time.
Barbour County Inmate Population Makeup
WVDCR's adult-jail reporting table gives Tygart Valley a mixed population. The FY2025 line included DOC Division of Corrections inmates, federal pretrial inmates, a small federal sentenced category, pretrial misdemeanants, convicted misdemeanants, pretrial felons, and convicted felons. That mix matches the facility map description: Tygart Valley serves as both a regional jail and correctional facility, with male and female inmates and classification levels from minimum to maximum.
- Pretrial jail custody covers people held before case disposition, including misdemeanor and felony cases.
- Sentenced jail custody includes convicted misdemeanants and some convicted felons still reported in the jail table.
- DOC division custody appears in the Tygart Valley count but is separate from the county roster view.
- Federal custody categories appear in WVDCR jail reporting, but federal sentenced inmates use federal lookup tools.
Statewide jail admissions demographics are broader than Barbour County. The FY2025 annual report gave West Virginia adult-jail admissions totals by sex, race, and age, including 36,461 statewide admissions. Those statewide numbers are useful context, but they are not proof of the race, sex, or age breakdown of Barbour County inmates alone.
Barbour County Jail Capacity
Capacity is one of the clearest Barbour County inmate population issues in the research. Using WVDCR's FY2025 rated population of 368, Tygart Valley's FY2025 average daily count of 431 was about 117 percent of rated population. That is a real facility-specific capacity pressure point from an official corrections source. A separate PREA audit used a 468 capacity figure, so the two numbers should not be blended into one claim.
No official Barbour-specific consent decree, Department of Justice investigation, jail death report, or new county jail construction plan was located in the research sweep. The safer phrasing is narrow: the FY2025 report shows Tygart Valley above its FY2025 rated population, while a separate PREA audit described a different capacity figure and no open-bay dormitory housing. That gives context without implying a lawsuit or reform plan that the sources did not document.
Capacity note: The 431 average daily count is a Tygart Valley regional-facility figure, not a Barbour-only inmate census.
Laws Governing Barbour County Inmates
Jail population records sit at the intersection of West Virginia public-record law, jail standards, booking-photo limits, and court-record rules. Current custody information is usually checked through public roster tools first. When a needed booking record, jail record, or photo is not online, West Virginia FOIA points the request to the custodian of the record. Some records may still be withheld or redacted if an exemption, juvenile rule, sealed case, expungement order, or investigation limit applies.
Key Statutes:
W. Va. Code § 29B-1-3 gives the public a right to inspect or copy public records unless an express exemption applies.
W. Va. Code § 29B-1-4 lists exemptions that can limit access to records or parts of records.
W. Va. Code § 25-5-11 requires regional jail facilities to follow standards for security, supervision, programs, transportation, and operation.
W. Va. Code § 62-1-6a addresses law-enforcement social-media posting and removal of some booking photographs.
Barbour County State Prison Population
The state prison count is not the same thing as the Barbour County inmate population visible on the jail roster. WVDCR's FY2025 annual report listed 54 prison offenders by Barbour County on or around June 30, 2025. Those are sentenced-prison county figures, not people necessarily housed at Tygart Valley or listed on the Barbour roster. The DOC locator covers active supervision, prison, and parole only, and it does not list people who have discharged from WVDCR custody.
No state prison was found physically in Barbour County. The Barbour County Community Corrections page names Huttonsville Correctional Center and Pruntytown Correctional Center as related corrections contacts, but those are nearby state facilities, not Barbour County detention facilities. Tygart Valley remains the single facility in the Barbour County detention facility list because it is the primary facility serving Barbour County jail custody.
Search Barbour County Inmate Population
The fastest public lookup starts with the county-branded roster. The Barbour County Sheriff's Office inmate roster is a browse-style list, not a name-search form. It displayed booking photos, names, booking numbers, booking dates and times, and charge lines when inspected. It did not display bond, housing, release status, court dates, physical descriptors, or a full profile link in the inspected view.
The Barbour County roster screenshot in the research capture shows why the local roster is useful for a quick visual check.
The roster image also shows its limits: it is strong for current booking details and weak for bond or court-status answers.
- Open the Barbour County Sheriff's Office inmate roster and scan the visible current entries.
- Match the name, booking number, booking date, and charge lines before assuming the entry is the right person.
- If the person is not visible, use the WV Regional Jail offender search with at least the first three letters of the last name.
- Use Daily Incarcerations when the question is about county or institution admissions rather than one roster entry.
- Check the WVDCR DOC locator if the person has been sentenced, transferred, paroled, or placed under active supervision.
Current Barbour County Inmate Lookup
Barbour County has two current-custody web channels. The local roster is visual and browse-only. The statewide Regional Jail search is form-based and can catch regional jail records beyond the local page. WVDCR warns that jail information changes quickly and may not show a true current location, release date, or status at the exact moment a person searches. Court records remain the better source for case events.
The WV Regional Jail offender search form uses name fields and a CAPTCHA gate.
This statewide form is useful when the local Barbour roster does not show a person who may still be in a regional jail.
| Lookup Channel | Field Label | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbour roster | Search fields | No | No public search box or filters were visible; browse current entries. |
| Barbour roster | Booking # | No | Numeric booking number appears in each visible entry. |
| WV Regional Jail search | Last Name | Yes | Minimum three letters; partial or full last name accepted. |
| WV Regional Jail search | First Name | No | Optional field to narrow results. |
| WV Regional Jail search | reCAPTCHA | Yes | Required for search submission. |
Past Barbour County Inmate Records
The Barbour roster did not publish a release-retention period, archive search, or old-booking lookup. If a person was released, transferred, or moved to another custody system, the local roster may no longer show the record. For jail-generated booking records or booking photographs, a public-records request should start with Tygart Valley or WVDCR. For sheriff arrest reports, incident reports, or service records, start with the Barbour County Sheriff's Office.
A useful request gives the full name, booking number if known, date of arrest or booking, charge or case number if known, and the exact record sought. Under West Virginia FOIA, the request goes to the public body's record custodian. Copies may be limited by exemptions, sealed or expunged records, juvenile protections, or active-investigation concerns.
Barbour County Inmate Record Fields
The public Barbour roster is a compact custody list. It shows enough to identify a current booking, but it should not be treated as a full jail file. A charge line is an allegation or custody label at booking, not a conviction. Bond and court dates must be checked with the court or facility because those fields were not visible in the inspected roster view.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking photo | Front-facing image embedded in each visible roster entry. |
| Name | Person's name in last-name-first format. |
| Booking # | Numeric booking identifier assigned to the entry. |
| Booking Date | Date and time in month/day/year and time format. |
| Charge | One or more charge text lines, without statute class in the list view. |
| Bond, housing, court date | Not visible in the inspected public roster view. |
Barbour County Jail vs Prison Lookup
Custody type decides which lookup works. Tygart Valley is a regional jail and correctional facility, so it can hold pretrial felons and misdemeanants, sentenced misdemeanants, sentenced felons, DOC division inmates, and some federal categories in statewide jail reporting. The county roster, however, is not the state prison locator, and it is not a federal or immigration database.
| Regional Jail / County Roster | State Prison / DOC | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is covered | Recent Barbour bookings and regional jail custody | Active prison, parole, or supervision records |
| Run by | WVDCR operates Tygart Valley; local roster is county-branded | West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Where to look | Barbour roster, WV Regional Jail search, Daily Incarcerations | WVDCR DOC offender search |
| Main limit | Roster may omit bond, housing, court dates, and old releases | Discharged people or people outside WVDCR custody may not appear |
State and Federal Inmate Search
Use the WVDCR DOC offender search for people in active state prison, parole, or supervision status. It accepts an Offender ID number with at least four characters, or a first and last name search with minimum name lengths. The WVDCR page states that discharged people and people moved out of WVDCR custody will not appear.
Federal and immigration lookups are separate. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present, while the ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for current immigration custody searches by A-number or biographical details. Barbour County is in the Northern District of West Virginia for federal court geography, but no federal prison or ICE detention center was found in Barbour County.
Barbour County Detention Facilities
The Barbour County facility list has one entry because official sources did not locate a separate Barbour County jail, municipal jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center in the county. Tygart Valley is outside the county seat and is listed by WVDCR in Randolph County, but it serves Barbour County jail custody.
- Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility holds pretrial felons and misdemeanants and sentenced felons and misdemeanants for Barbour and four other counties.
The official Tygart Valley facility page gives the address, phone, fax, and visitation link.
That facility page is the direct source to check before traveling or scheduling a non-contact visit.
Barbour County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Barbour County inmate population? The best local jail figure is the Tygart Valley regional-facility count. WVDCR reported a FY2025 average daily count of 431 at Tygart Valley, while the Barbour roster showed 117 visible booking entries on July 2, 2026. Neither number is a pure Barbour-only jail census.
Where are Barbour County jail inmates held? Routine jail custody is handled through Tygart Valley Regional Jail and Correctional Facility, operated by WVDCR. The Barbour County Sheriff makes arrests and handles law-enforcement duties, but the regional jail is the main custody facility for jail questions.
How do I search the Barbour County inmate population? Start with the browse-only county roster. If no entry appears, use the WV Regional Jail search, Daily Incarcerations, the WVDCR DOC locator, VINE, BOP, or ICE depending on custody type.
Does the Barbour roster show mugshots? Yes. The inspected roster showed a booking photo with each visible entry, along with name, booking number, booking date and time, and charges.
Can I look up a released inmate? The local roster did not publish an archive or release-retention rule. Use FOIA with the correct custodian for old booking records, or search court records for case history.