Lookup Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority - Haysi Facility Inmates

Haysi Facility Jail Overview

Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority - Haysi Facility, also called Haysi Regional Jail in PREA records, is a regional jail operated by the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority. Buchanan County does not run a separate county jail roster for current detainees. Local custody is regionalized through SWVRJA, whose service area includes Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and Norton. That is why a Buchanan County arrest can lead to a jail record in the SWVRJA system instead of a record under a stand-alone Buchanan County jail name.

The Haysi facility holds adults at minimum, medium, and maximum security levels. The 2025 PREA audit says the facility serves people age 18 and older and notes both men and women in custody, with youthful inmates also identified in the audit material. Buchanan-area detainees may be housed at Haysi or another SWVRJA facility based on classification, bed space, gender, medical needs, security needs, or other operational reasons. The facility detail matters because the JailTracker roster can show which SWVRJA facility is housing the person.

The official SWVRJA contact page shows the Haysi facility address and phone in the authority's facility table.

The facility table is useful because a Buchanan County jail search may need both the online roster and the Haysi phone line when a booking is new or the roster does not display a match.

Haysi Jail Capacity

Official population detail for Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority - Haysi Facility is unusually specific. The SWVRJA Haysi 2025 PREA final audit reported a designed capacity of 291, a current population of 331 at the time of the audit, and a 12-month average daily population of 307. The same audit reported 10 housing units and marked that the facility had been over capacity at some point in the prior 12-month period. Those figures are jail-population figures, not VADOC state-prison counts.

The Haysi numbers also have a local trend. The 2023 Haysi sexual-violence annual report listed 246 males and 66 females confined at year end on December 31, 2023. It also reported 2022 new admissions of 1,725 males and 670 females, with a total 2022 ADP of 306. Compared with the 2025 audit's 12-month ADP of 307, the researched figures show a steady population near or above the designed capacity.

Search Haysi Jail Inmates

The correct current-custody lookup for Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority - Haysi Facility is the SWVRJA JailTracker roster. Start at the official SWVRJA current facility inmates page or use the direct JailTracker/Public Safety Cloud roster. Do not use the VADOC locator for a newly arrested Buchanan County detainee unless the person has moved into state correctional custody after sentencing.

1. Open the SWVRJA current-inmate page in a modern browser. The JailTracker roster uses JavaScript and may not load in a text-only browser.
2. Enter the person's last name and first name if known. Use narrow spelling, then try common variants if the first search fails.
3. Check the facility field when the roster displays it. SWVRJA operates multiple facilities, so a Buchanan County detainee may not always be listed at Haysi.
4. Open the individual profile for public fields such as booking date, charges, bond, holds, court data, image, status, and facility when those fields are enabled.
5. If no record appears, call the Haysi facility or use VINE and FOIA channels. A missing roster result does not prove release.

Haysi Jail Contact

For urgent custody questions, use the jail phone after checking the roster. Official sources do not publish a walk-in records counter process for Haysi, and visitor parking, public transit, and ADA entry details were not located in the inspected SWVRJA pages. Call before leaving for the facility, especially during heavy rain, snow, flooding, or road work in the Buchanan, Dickenson, and Haysi area.

Haysi Video Visitation

SWVRJA visitation for Haysi is video-centered. The authority's video visitation page says remote sessions are scheduled through Smart Communications, all sessions are subject to monitoring and recording, and visits must be set at least 24 hours before the appointment and up to two weeks in advance. The posted SWVRJA language still says onsite video visitation was suspended under COVID-era rules at the time of that notice, so visitors should confirm current onsite status before travel.

The posted remote schedule gives families a working planning window, but the facility may cancel, deny, or change a visit for safety or security reasons.

Accepted ID can include a driver's license, military or government ID, passport, school picture ID, immigration card, or another picture ID issued by a government agency. SWVRJA also publishes dress limits, including restrictions on transparent clothing, exposed midriff or shoulders, tight clothing, short skirts or dresses, hats except approved religious headwear, gang or obscene content, and clothing that resembles security or inmate clothing.

Haysi Mail Money Phone

Mail, phone, video, messaging, and inmate funds at Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority - Haysi Facility are handled through SWVRJA vendor systems. The official SWVRJA inmate mail page says regular postal mail is sent to Smart Communications for scanning. Families should not send original birth certificates, marriage certificates, Social Security cards, or irreplaceable pictures through scanned regular mail because originals are destroyed after processing.

Haysi Booking Intake

For a Buchanan County arrest, the usual custody path is arrest or warrant service, magistrate or early release decision, transport to SWVRJA if held, then jail intake. Intake creates the booking record, confirms identity, inventories property, and may include a booking photo, fingerprints, medical screening, and classification. Classification is the jail decision that assigns housing and security handling. Haysi holds minimum, medium, and maximum custody levels, so housing is not based only on the arresting agency or home county.

JailTracker fields show the kinds of data that may be tied to the booking: name, booking or jacket reference, original book date and time, facility, image, charges, holds, arresting agency, court references, and bond fields. Some fields may be hidden or unavailable on a public profile. A newly booked person may not appear right away because the record depends on transport, intake timing, identity checks, medical screening, and roster updates. If the case is new, checking again and calling Haysi may be more reliable than assuming the roster is final.

Booking data and court data are not the same. A jail charge is a custody field. Court charges may be amended, dismissed, indicted, reduced, or otherwise changed after the Commonwealth's Attorney and the court process act on the case. For custody status, use SWVRJA. For formal court events after arrest, use the Virginia court systems.

Haysi Records FOIA

When the public roster does not answer a Buchanan County jail records question, the records custodian matters. For regional jail records held by SWVRJA, the authority's FOIA page directs requests to Melissa White by mail, phone, fax, or email. Virginia FOIA generally requires public bodies to respond to public-record requests within five working days unless an extension or exemption applies. Requests should identify existing records with reasonable specificity, such as a booking record, jail roster entry, booking photo, or custody date range.

Sheriff-created law-enforcement records may be held by the Buchanan County Sheriff's Office or county offices rather than SWVRJA. The county FOIA policy says requests can be made by mail, fax, email, in person, or phone, and that the requester does not need to cite FOIA by name. Law-enforcement records can have limits under Virginia law, especially for criminal investigative files, confidential sources, or sensitive safety details.

The SWVRJA VINE page is another custody-status route. VINE is not a full roster or records archive, but it can provide free, anonymous notification of custody changes by phone, web, or mobile channel.

Haysi PREA Programs

The 2011 Virginia jail-project report described SWVRJA system programming that included academic education, GED preparation and testing at some facilities, mental-health counseling, telepsychiatry, substance-abuse education, and relapse prevention. Those program details are historical and systemwide, so availability should be confirmed directly with Haysi before relying on a specific class or service for a current inmate.

The 2025 Haysi PREA audit gives current conditions information. It found 44 PREA standards met, one standard exceeded, and zero standards not met. The audit identified the agency-wide PREA coordinator as Jeannie Patrick and the on-site health service administrator as Loretta Burkett. It also reported 92 employees with inmate contact, 18 contractors authorized for inmate contact, and 10 volunteers authorized for inmate contact. PREA is the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, and the audit concerns sexual safety standards in custody.

SWVRJA MailGuard also affects reentry and family contact because released inmates can log into SmartInmate to download photos, messages, and postal mail for free. That access can matter when family records, photos, and messages were sent through the scanned-mail system.