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Piedmont Regional Jail Overview

Piedmont Regional Jail is operated by the Piedmont Regional Jail Authority and functions as the practical jail facility for Amelia County custody searches. The facility is in Farmville and serves Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Lunenburg, Nottoway, and Prince Edward counties. Official jail material describes it as a minimum-to-high-security regional jail that houses male and female offenders. Its population can include local detainees, state offenders, and people held for the U.S. Marshals Service, so a roster result must be read in context rather than treated as only an Amelia County arrest record.

The jail was created after the six participating counties determined that older local jails were overcrowded and unable to meet recertification standards. PRJ opened in 1988 with space for 101 male and female offenders. Current official materials state that the jail has expanded several times, employs more than 100 people, and now has a maximum capacity of 600. The most recent expansion added a modern intake and processing area, which matters for Amelia County arrests because booking, classification, and housing decisions may happen through the regional facility.

The Piedmont Regional Jail About page shows the regional mission, capacity history, and service-county role.

The distinction matters for Amelia County searches because the jail authority operates the custody facility while the sheriff remains a local law-enforcement agency.

Piedmont Regional Jail Capacity and Population

The most useful Amelia County population point is that Amelia detainees are part of a regional jail population, not a standalone county jail count. The PRJ About page gives the current maximum capacity as 600 male and female offenders. A 2024 PREA report gives an average daily population context not to exceed 500 with capacity of 600, while a 2020 PREA audit reported 409 inmates at the time of that audit. Those figures should not be converted into an Amelia-only population total, because the jail serves six counties and may also hold state and federal offenders.

Official PRJ and county sources did not provide race, age, annual-booking, average-length-of-stay, or Amelia-specific share breakdowns. For current custody confirmation, use the roster and then call the jail when timing or release status matters.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Piedmont Regional Jail

Start with the PRJ Offender Lookup. The official page is for people incarcerated at PRJ and under Piedmont Regional Jail custody. It embeds a JailTracker roster application, and the app field inventory shows name-search components plus possible profile fields for booking time, release time, facility, arresting agency, bond type, bond amount, charges, crime type, court type, court date, case number, warrant number, status, jacket number, and image. If the embedded frame does not load, open the direct roster application from the PRJ lookup page.

1. Open the official PRJ Offender Lookup rather than a third-party Amelia jail listing.
2. Search by the confirmed spelling of the last name and add a first name when available.
3. Complete any captcha or search filter shown by the roster application.
4. Open the matching profile and confirm that the listed facility, booking status, charges, and bond fields match the person being searched.
5. If no result appears, call PRJ, check Virginia VINE, and use the VADOC locator if the person may be under state custody.

The roster does not answer every custody question. People sentenced into state custody can move into VADOC systems, federal sentenced inmates belong in the BOP locator, and immigration custody uses ICE tools or direct facility contact. Federal pretrial detainees held by contract may not appear in BOP until sentenced or otherwise in BOP custody.

The PRJ lookup source is the correct starting point for the official roster path.

Use the image source as a navigation check only. Live custody, charge, bond, and release data should be confirmed through the active roster or by contacting the jail.

Piedmont Regional Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail's published contact information for custody questions, visitation scheduling, mail issues, records routing, and time-sensitive release confirmation. Amelia County sheriff records may help with arresting-agency context, but PRJ is the facility that publishes the offender lookup and handles jail operations for Amelia detainees held there.

The contact page identifies PRJ FOIA contacts as Gloria Giles at extension 320 and Royal Eanes at extension 247. The same source lists department extensions, including medical at extension 235, and separates records fax from general administrative fax routing.

Visiting Someone at Piedmont Regional Jail

PRJ visits must be scheduled by phone at least 48 hours in advance. The jail accepts scheduling calls Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Each offender receives one visitation slot per week. Visits may last up to 30 minutes and may include up to six visitors. Visitors should arrive 15 minutes early, bring identification, follow staff instructions, and expect people, vehicles, and property entering or leaving jail grounds to be subject to search. Refusing a search means leaving the property.

PRJ rules prohibit alcohol, tobacco products, weapons, ammunition, explosives, and explosive materials on facility grounds. Conversations and actions may be audio or video recorded. Dress rules apply to adults and minors, and visitors wearing prohibited or inappropriate clothing may be denied entry. Visitor misconduct, disruption, profanity, being under the influence, or leaving minors unattended can end a visit or suspend later visits. Online video visits are scheduled through GettingOut, require debit or credit card payment, and carry a fee.

The PRJ visitation source gives the housing-unit schedule, visit limits, dress rules, and online visit option.

Because the schedule is organized by housing location, families should confirm the person's pod or unit before planning travel.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Piedmont Regional Jail

PRJ publishes a separate inmate mail format from the general facility mailing address. The inmate mail line uses the person's name and BN number, then routes to the Phoenix, Maryland, post office box listed by PRJ. General correspondence to the facility uses the Farmville P.O. Drawer. When sending mail or money, include the offender's exact name and identifying number if known, and confirm current formatting with the jail for any rejected or returned item.

Commissary and Deposit Options

PRJ commissary runs on a weekly cycle. Funds must be posted before 6:00 a.m. Monday to be available for commissary purchases. In-house commissary orders are deducted on Mondays. Out-of-house commissary through Keefe Commissary Network can be ordered by offenders through the kiosk until 7:00 a.m. Thursday, with delivery throughout the week by housing-unit schedule.

Work Release and Home Electronic Monitoring

PRJ publishes specific Work Release and Home Electronic Monitoring criteria. Court or DOC approval is required. Eligibility rules include a sentence under 18 months, a nonviolent crime, employment with a current business license, no outstanding detainers, personal transportation, a passed drug test, and work no more than six days per week. Home Electronic Monitoring requires GPS monitoring, and weekly visits are required, usually Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. unless the schedule changes.

The PRJ Work Release and HEM source lists the program requirements and fee schedule.

These programs are not general release options for every inmate. They depend on sentence type, approvals, detainers, employment status, testing, transportation, and ongoing compliance.

Booking, Intake, and PREA Screening

For Amelia County, the booking path is regional. A person may be arrested by the Amelia County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police, or another agency, then delivered into the jail or magistrate process and held at PRJ if custody continues. Intake normally includes identity checks, property handling, search procedures, fingerprints, a booking photograph, medical and mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, and roster entry if the public record is published. The official material does not state how quickly a new booking appears online or how long released people stay listed.

PRJ's PREA process begins at admission. Offenders are required to watch the "What You Need to Know" video and receive kiosk access to the offender handbook explaining rights, reporting options, and procedures. PRJ says each offender is screened with an objective tool for risk of victimization or predation, and that the result informs housing assignment and program participation. If PREA issues are found during an interview, a qualified mental-health person is contacted and immediate services or a follow-up appointment may be available.

PREA reporting may be made by third parties verbally or in writing, and reports may be anonymous or made in a language other than English. PRJ also reports English and Spanish posters in the jail, staff and contractor orientation, annual refresher training, video camera coverage, blind-spot review, added cameras, and renovations connected to offender safety rights.

Roster Limits, Records, and Custody Boundaries

A PRJ roster entry is a jail custody record, not a final court outcome. Charges can be amended, dismissed, reduced, nolle prossed, or replaced by indictment or information. Virginia FOIA provides access to adult arrestee identity, charge or arrest status, and adult arrestee photographs taken during initial intake and routine booking unless a listed exception applies, but sealed, expunged, juvenile, investigative, criminal-history, and security-sensitive records may be restricted.

For a no-result search, work through the custody channels in order: PRJ Offender Lookup, PRJ phone confirmation, Virginia VINE for custody notification, VADOC for state custody or supervision, BOP for federal sentenced custody, and ICE locator or facility contact for immigration custody. For Amelia arresting-agency reports or FOIA routing, the Amelia County Sheriff's Office may be relevant, but it is not the jail operator and should not be treated as a separate Amelia County jail roster.

Programs, Conditions, and Recent Reporting

PRJ's mission material emphasizes humane treatment, safety, sanitation, staff growth, evidence-based programming, educational classes, reentry services, and compliance with Board of Corrections standards plus local, state, and federal law. The staff information captured in the research identifies Director of Compliance and Accreditation Bridgett Tisdale as overseeing PREA, programs, offender grievances, Work Release, and Home Electronic Incarceration. The contact page also lists medical routing, which is relevant for families trying to understand available services without treating the public roster as a health-information source.

Official source review did not identify a current Amelia County jail consent decree, DOJ investigation, new jail construction project, closure, or death-in-custody litigation specific to Amelia County. A statewide death-review source appeared to reference Piedmont Regional Jail in a broader table, but the exact year-by-year figures were not fully extracted. Population and conditions claims should therefore remain tied to the official PRJ pages, PREA reports, and financial reports rather than unsupported third-party summaries.