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Potomac Highlands Jail Overview

Potomac Highlands Regional Jail and Correctional Facility is operated by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility office. The official facility page identifies it as a regional jail and correctional facility in Augusta, Hampshire County, serving Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton Counties. That regional role is the key fact for Grant County inmate records. A person arrested by a Grant County deputy, state officer, or local police officer may be booked into a jail outside the county line, while the court case still belongs to Grant County magistrate or circuit court.

The facility page lists Superintendent Travis Myers and places the jail near the Virginia and Maryland borders. For search purposes, Potomac Highlands should not be treated as a sheriff-run Grant County jail. It is a WV DCR regional jail that handles local pretrial detainees, sentenced jail inmates, and other offenders under regional jail jurisdiction. Once a person is sentenced to state prison, placed on active supervision, or moved to parole, the regional jail search may no longer be the right tool.

The official DCR source page for Potomac Highlands is captured in the project image manifest. The WV DCR Potomac Highlands page shows the facility contact block, counties served, directions, superintendent, and visitation rules.

The screenshot is useful because it ties Grant County jail custody to the Augusta regional facility instead of a separate courthouse jail in Petersburg.

Potomac Highlands Contact Card

Use the facility contact line for current custody, visiting logistics, and basic jail questions. Use Grant County court or sheriff contacts for local arrest reports, warrants, bond orders, and case documents. The regional jail can confirm facility rules, but it does not replace the court record for charges or the sheriff record for local law-enforcement reports.

Grant County's sheriff office remains the local law-enforcement contact for sheriff-held records. The county source lists the sheriff office at 5 Highland Avenue, Petersburg, WV 26847, phone 304-257-1818, fax 304-257-2665, and email gcsher@sheriff.state.wv.us. It does not list a separate Grant County jail building or sheriff-run inmate roster.

Potomac Highlands Inmate Lookup

The correct public lookup for current Potomac Highlands regional jail custody is the WV Regional Jail Offender Search. The search page says to enter at least the first three letters of the last name, and the first-name field is optional. It is a statewide regional jail search, so the facility result should be checked against Potomac Highlands when more than one person has a similar name.

1. Open the WV Regional Jail Offender Search and enter at least three letters of the person's last name.
2. Add the first name if the last name is common or if several results could match.
3. Complete the reCAPTCHA and compare any result by full name, facility, custody status, and booking clues.
4. Check WV Daily Incarcerations for fresh admissions if the arrest is recent.
5. Switch to the WV DCR prison and supervision search after prison transfer, parole, or active supervision.

The DCR disclaimer warns that jail information is updated regularly but can be incomplete, stale, or affected by a fast custody change. For a deeper roster walkthrough, the Grant County jail inmate records page separates roster search, daily admissions, court follow-up, and FOIA requests.

Potomac Highlands Population Stats

Population figures for Potomac Highlands should be read as facility-level figures, not as a Grant County-only count. Potomac Highlands serves five counties, and the research did not locate a crawlable official table that breaks out the Grant County share by day, month, sex, charge class, or pretrial status. The available figures come from WV DCR annual-report search snippets and need manual PDF verification before being treated as audited numbers.

WV DCR annual-report snippets list Potomac Highlands at 47 in FY2024 and 66 in FY2025, with rated population 368; the PDF should be manually verified before publishing exact figures. Until that visual check is complete, the safest wording is that these are official annual-report snippet figures, not locally extracted PDF text.

Potomac Highlands Visitation Rules

Potomac Highlands publishes non-contact visitation rules on the official facility page. Visits must be scheduled by phone one day in advance, and the scheduling line is separate from the main jail phone. Visits are first call, first served, cannot be scheduled at the window, and require early arrival for sign-in. Late visitors receive only the time left in their assigned slot.

Adult visitors must register at entry and show valid photo identification, such as a driver's license, DMV photo ID card, or passport. Visitors under 18 need a birth certificate and must be with a parent, legal guardian, or properly authorized adult visitor. If a juvenile is not with a parent or legal guardian, the Juvenile Visitation form must be signed, notarized, and completed before arrival because facility notaries cannot notarize it.

Each offender is allowed one visit per month. The visit group may include two adults or one adult and two children at one time. The dress rule requires visitors to be fully and appropriately dressed, bars provocative clothing, and leaves final approval to the shift supervisor.

Mail Phone Money Gaps

The Potomac Highlands page captured in the research does not publish a facility-specific mail address format, phone vendor, video vendor, commissary vendor, deposit methods, or fee table. The WV DCR homepage links offender services, offender banking, offender packages, and calling or video visit resources, but the research did not verify a current Potomac Highlands vendor page from an official DCR link. Those details should be checked with the facility or WV DCR before money, mail, or phone instructions are used.

Do not use the Grant County sheriff online payment page for jail bond or commissary unless a current official instruction says so. The captured county payment page supports taxes, home-confinement fees, hotel or motel taxes, and service of process, not routine Potomac Highlands deposits.

Potomac Highlands Booking Intake

Grant County booking is best described as a regional jail process. After an arrest or warrant execution, the person may be transported to Potomac Highlands for intake. The exact local intake checklist was not published in the official facility source, so the reliable description is general: identity confirmation, search, property inventory, fingerprints, booking photograph, health screening, offender-information entry, initial classification, and housing assignment.

Classification means the jail sorts custody needs before housing. Staff may consider security level, medical needs, mental-health concerns, sex, age, separation needs, warrants, holds, and current bed space. A detainer is a hold request from another agency or court. A remand is a court order returning a person to custody. Either can affect release even when a separate charge looks bondable.

The public listing may appear after intake data is entered and updated, but no official Potomac Highlands source states an exact delay between booking and online display. If a name does not appear right away, retry the regional jail search, check Daily Incarcerations, and call the jail or local sheriff with full identifying information.

Potomac Highlands Public Records

WV DCR oversight matters because Potomac Highlands is not a Grant County department. W. Va. Code §15A-3-4 gives the DCR commissioner authority over institutions, classification, custody, discipline, treatment, rules, education cooperation, and transportation for court appearances. That statute supports the distinction between jail custody records held by DCR and local arrest or case records held by Grant County offices.

For public records, W. Va. Code §29B-1-3 gives access to inspect or copy public records unless an exemption applies. A request should go to the custodian that maintains the record. Ask DCR or Potomac Highlands for regional jail custody records, the Grant County sheriff for local arrest reports or sheriff-held records, and the magistrate or circuit clerk for court documents. Juvenile records, medical records, security details, and active investigations may be limited or withheld under applicable law.

WV DCR also provides West Virginia VINELink as a notification channel for custody and case events. VINELink can help with alerts, but it should not replace direct verification before travel, bond action, or court deadlines.

Directions From Grant County

Potomac Highlands is in Augusta rather than Petersburg, so local families should plan for a drive into Hampshire County. The official DCR directions say visitors coming from I-68 should take exit 43-B toward Industrial Boulevard, turn onto Canal Parkway/WV-28 Alt S, continue to US Route 50 East, and turn left onto Dolan Drive. Visitors coming from the Winchester or I-81 side should take exit 317 for US-11, continue toward US-50 West/Northwestern Pike, and turn right onto Dolan Drive.

No official public-transit route, visitor-lot map, parking fee, or ADA entrance detail was located in the captured facility source. Confirm parking and accessibility needs before traveling. In bad weather, call before leaving because Potomac Highlands roads can have mountain driving conditions and changing visibility.