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Piedmont Regional Jail Overview

Piedmont Regional Jail is operated by the Piedmont Regional Jail Authority and serves Prince Edward County along with Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Lunenburg, and Nottoway counties. It is not a small single-county lockup. The jail sits in Farmville and functions as a regional intake, housing, release, records, visitation, phone, and commissary point for adults held under PRJ custody. PRJ describes the facility as minimum to high security and states that it houses male and female offenders.

The Prince Edward County custody path should be read with that regional structure in mind. The Prince Edward County Sheriff's Office is the law-enforcement agency for many county arrests and records, but adult jail confinement normally routes to Piedmont Regional Jail. PRJ also reports state, local, and federal offender populations, including contract beds with the U.S. Marshals Service and other counties. A sentenced state prisoner may later appear in the Virginia Department of Corrections locator instead of the PRJ roster, and an immigration detainee at Farmville Detention Center is searched through ICE, not PRJ.

PRJ's history page says the jail opened on May 11, 1988, with room for 101 male and female offenders. Later expansions added dorm space, bed space, and a modern intake and processing area. The 2024 PRJ PREA report describes a linear/direct-supervision facility with named housing and security posts, video monitoring throughout the facility, and camera placement that avoids shower and toilet areas. Those details matter because housing, visitation, release, intake, and roster status can depend on where the person is assigned inside the jail.

Piedmont Regional Jail Capacity

The most useful population figures for Piedmont Regional Jail come from the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails capacity reports and PRJ's own facility materials. The 2025 BLRJ capacity report lists Piedmont Regional with 600 permanent beds, no temporary beds, no special-purpose beds, 600 actual capacity including double bunking, 274 rated capacity, and annualized average daily population of 446.27 for July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. The prior report listed 312.83 ADP for July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024.

Those numbers should not be treated as a Prince Edward-only jail population. Piedmont Regional Jail serves six member counties and may hold local, state, and federal offenders. The BLRJ reports also distinguish rated capacity from actual capacity, which is why the rated figure and the operational bed figure differ. PRJ's own site says the jail currently houses a maximum of 600 male and female offenders, while the 2024 PREA report says average daily population should not exceed 500 with capacity of 600.

Piedmont Regional Jail Roster Search

Use the official PRJ Offender Lookup for a current Piedmont Regional Jail inmate search. The PRJ page embeds the JailTracker/Public Safety Cloud roster and says it is used to search for an offender's location when the person is incarcerated at PRJ and under PRJ custody. The public app may require browser scripting and may show a captcha. If the roster does not load, start with the PRJ phone line rather than assuming the person is not in custody.

The roster is the local/regional channel for Prince Edward County pretrial detainees and local sentenced jail inmates. It is not the channel for a sentenced state prisoner after transfer to VADOC, a sentenced federal prisoner in BOP custody, or an ICE detainee at Farmville Detention Center. A person arrested on a federal matter but held pretrial under a U.S. Marshals contract may still be in PRJ custody, so the custody source depends on legal status, not just the arresting agency.

1. Open the PRJ Offender Lookup page, since it is the official PRJ wrapper for the roster.
2. Search by last name and first name if the embedded roster loads, then use current-only, agency, or release filters if visible.
3. Complete any captcha shown by the JailTracker/Public Safety Cloud app and rerun the search if needed.
4. Open the individual record or row. The profile can carry charges, bond, agency, court, holds, release fields, and image fields when enabled.
5. If no record appears, call PRJ records or the watch commander and then check VADOC, BOP, ICE, or Virginia court records based on the case type.

The Prince Edward County jail inmate records page covers the broader fallback chain, including county FOIA requests and state/federal locators.

The official PRJ lookup page shows the roster entry point for Piedmont Regional Jail inmates at prjva.org/offender-lookup.

That source is the best online starting point for PRJ custody, but phone confirmation is still important when release, transfer, captcha, or a same-name result creates doubt.

Piedmont Regional Jail Contact

For current custody, records, booking, account, medical, and visitation questions, contact Piedmont Regional Jail directly. PRJ lists a main number and several internal extensions. Records questions can be routed to Records extension 732, and the contact page identifies the records fax as (434) 392-5932. The mailing address differs from the physical street address, which matters for money orders, correspondence, and formal records mail.

Piedmont Regional Jail Visitation

PRJ publishes a pod-specific visitation schedule. Visits must be scheduled by phone at least 48 hours in advance, and scheduling calls are accepted Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Offenders receive one visitation slot per week. A visit may last up to 30 minutes and can include up to six visitors. PRJ tells visitors to arrive 15 minutes early for check-in and search, and it warns that the schedule may change at any time.

Online video visits are scheduled through GettingOut. PRJ states that online visits require a debit or credit card account and that a fee applies. The inspected PRJ page did not publish a dress code, locker rule, minor-child procedure, or public visitor ID list, so those details should be confirmed with the jail before travel.

Piedmont Regional Jail Mail Money Phone

PRJ publishes detailed family and friend rules for mail, commissary, money, phones, and online visits. Personal mail from family and friends is digitally delivered through the tablet Facility Messages app under the free profile. The personal-mail format listed by PRJ routes to Phoenix, Maryland rather than to the Farmville street address. Use the inmate's name and identifier, and confirm the current format before sending photos, drawings, or letters.

Weekly commissary is provided to offenders. PRJ states that money must be posted before 6:00 a.m. Monday to be available for commissary purchases, and in-house commissary orders are deducted from the offender account on Mondays. Out-of-house commissary is through Keefe Commissary Network and can be ordered from the offender kiosk until 7:00 a.m. Thursday. Funds may be accepted by postal money order by mail, postal money order at the front desk, lobby kiosk, or OffenderConnect online.

Offenders may keep up to 10 numbers on the phone list. If a phone number is blocked, PRJ instructs callers to use the main jail number and ask for the Watch Commander on duty.

Piedmont Regional Jail Booking

Prince Edward arrests may come from the Sheriff's Office, Farmville Police Department, Virginia State Police, a campus police agency, or another law-enforcement agency. The normal jail path is arrest, transport, intake at Piedmont Regional Jail, identity checks, search, property inventory, photograph, fingerprints, medical and mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, magistrate or court review, and court-case creation. The public roster may not show a new booking at the exact moment of intake.

PRJ's 2024 PREA report gives useful intake and housing context. It lists an Intake post covering intake cells, a Release post covering J-Cells, and multiple housing and control posts. Video monitoring is used inside and outside the facility, but the report says it is not a substitute for direct staff supervision. These local details explain why a person's roster status, housing unit, visit day, and release timing can change while staff finish classification, court paperwork, or hold checks.

Booking

The jail intake event that creates the custody record after arrest.

Classification

The jail process used to assign housing and security level.

Hold or Detainer

A custody flag from another case or agency that can block release.

Work Release

A custody program that may allow approved work outside jail with return to custody.

About Piedmont Regional Jail

PRJ calls itself Virginia's original regional jail facility. Its public materials describe a regional board model, six member counties, evidence-based programs, educational classes, reentry services, and a goal of humane, respectful treatment in a safe and sanitary facility. PRJ also has a Work Release and Home Electronic Monitoring page, and the visitation schedule separately lists male offender workers and work release on Sunday morning.

The 2024 PREA report lists facility divisions for Administrative Services, Security Operations, Compliance and Training, Offender Services and Support, and Operations. It also describes unannounced rounds, monitoring, privacy rules for camera placement, and a zero-tolerance PREA policy. Third-party PREA reports may be made verbally or in writing, including in languages other than English.