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Central Virginia Regional Jail Overview

Central Virginia Regional Jail, commonly called CVRJ, is a regional adult jail operated by the Central Virginia Regional Jail Authority. It is located in Orange and serves Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison, and Orange Counties. Louisa County's own regional jail board page confirms that the authority constructed and operates the jail for secure confinement of adults accused or convicted of criminal activity.

CVRJ's history page says the jail became operational on September 1, 1990, with a 96-bed design capacity and original staff of 50. It later added a 50-bed dormitory and two classrooms in 1995, then 101 beds, an infirmary, indoor recreation hall, more visitation space, a larger laundry, a larger vehicle sally port, and other support spaces in 1999. The same history page says the jail has a staff of 156 and houses about 400 local, state, and federal prisoners.

The CVRJ history page documents the facility's opening, additions, classification history, staffing, and approximate population.

Those details explain why Central Virginia Regional Jail is the required facility page for Louisa County even though the building sits outside the county seat.

Central Virginia Jail Capacity

The best current capacity source is the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails 2024 Annual Capacity Report. It lists Central Virginia Regional with 610 actual capacity including double-bunking, 442 rated capacity, and 425.91 average daily population for July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The FY 2024 Jail Cost Report lists total LIDS ADP of 424, federal/out-of-state ADP of 58, federal contract beds of 150, and 96 percent total capacity use.

Lookup Inmates at CVRJ

No official CVRJ public current-inmate roster, booking report, or mugshot gallery was found on the inspected CVRJ pages. For Louisa County users, the lookup path starts with the official Louisa County Sheriff's Office app if it is available, because the app launch notice says it offers inmate search and court-date checks. The next public channel is Virginia VINE/VINELink, which CVRJ describes as a custody and criminal-case notification service.

For real-time custody confirmation, call CVRJ at (540) 672-3222. For a jail record that is not online, mail a FOIA request to the Custodian of Records at the facility address. Use VADOC for sentenced state custody, BOP for federal sentenced custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. CVRJ is documented as housing some federal prisoners, but BOP is still the sentenced federal locator.

1. Check the Louisa County Sheriff's Office app for the advertised inmate-search feature.
2. Use Virginia VINE/VINELink for custody status and notifications.
3. Call CVRJ for a current custody question that public tools do not answer.
4. Mail a FOIA request for records that are not posted online.
5. Move to VADOC, BOP, or ICE when the person is no longer in local jail custody.

Central Virginia Jail Contact

The facility's main contact information is straightforward, but specialized numbers are limited in the inspected pages. CVRJ did not publish a separate booking desk number, bond window number, or records email address. Visitors and record seekers should use the main phone number unless an official page gives a more specific contact.

The CVRJ contact page shows the jail location, phone number, and visitation-hour summary.

Use that exact facility name and address when asking about a Louisa detainee, because the jail is regional and located in Orange.

Central Virginia Jail Visitation

CVRJ visitation is non-contact. Visits are limited to thirty minutes, and visitors must be on the inmate's visitor list. The published time depends on the inmate's cell block. A practical caution is necessary: the CVRJ visitation page contains inconsistent wording, with one statement saying visits are Friday through Monday and another subsection saying non-official visiting hours are daily Monday through Friday. Confirm the schedule with CVRJ before traveling.

Official and professional visitors include attorneys, clergy, probation and parole officers, bona fide social workers, recognized community service agencies, medical professionals, and police officers with prior approval. Published professional windows are 8:00-11:00 a.m., 1:00-4:00 p.m., and 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The CVRJ visitation page is the source for the non-contact rule, visitor-list requirement, thirty-minute limit, and block schedule.

Because the page has conflicting day-of-week text, the block table should be treated as a starting point, not a travel guarantee.

CVRJ Mail, Phone, and Money

CVRJ's deposit page says the jail has an ATM in the front lobby for credit, debit, and cash transactions. It also says money can be sent online through JailATM. The same page includes older wording about U.S. Postal Money Orders, cashier's checks, and certified checks, but also states that after July 1, 2017 they will no longer be accepted. Confirm mailed deposit rules before sending funds.

The CVRJ inmate account deposits page describes lobby and online deposit options.

For phone accounts or call problems, use Securus support first and then contact CVRJ if the vendor cannot resolve the issue.

CVRJ Records and FOIA

CVRJ's FOIA page directs requests to the Custodian of Records by mail at Central Virginia Regional Jail, 13021 James Madison Highway, Orange, Virginia 22960. The page does not publish a web form, fee schedule, email submission channel, or processing-time chart. A request should identify the inmate or arrestee, the approximate date, and the existing record sought.

Virginia FOIA policy favors access to public records unless an exemption applies, but jail records can include law-enforcement, investigation, juvenile, medical, or safety limits. Adult arrestee photographs and identity/status information may be requestable under Va. Code 2.2-3706, subject to felony-investigation and other limits. For court charges, use the court portals or clerk offices instead of asking the jail to interpret the case outcome.

Local, State, and Federal Custody

Central Virginia Regional Jail is a regional adult jail, not a VADOC prison. A Louisa defendant may be held at CVRJ before trial, after a magistrate commitment, while serving a local sentence, or while another agency's hold is resolved. After sentencing and commitment to state custody, the person can move into VADOC intake and classification. At that point, the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator becomes the main public search path.

Federal custody also has two parts. The U.S. Marshals Service manages federal pretrial prisoners, and the USMS intergovernmental agreement identifies CVRJ as a facility that can house federal prisoners. Sentenced federal inmates are searched through BOP, not through a county jail page. ICE custody is separate again, and no official source found an ICE facility in Louisa County or showed CVRJ as an ICE detention site.

CVRJ Programs and Conditions

Public program details were limited in inspected CVRJ pages. The history page notes that two classrooms were added in 1995 and that the jail was certified by the National Institute of Corrections for its Objective Jail Classification Program. The CVRJ navigation includes reentry, and useful links include Louisa Reentry and Madison Reentry, but detailed current program descriptions were not captured in the official HTML pages inspected.

State minimum jail standards fill in part of the framework. Virginia rules require areas such as receiving and medical screening, current and accurate inmate records, daily logs, correspondence privileges, grievance procedures, medical access, and other operating standards. CVRJ also has a PREA page. It lists reporting through staff, the main jail line, an inmate request form addressed to PREA, and a PREA line through Encompass Community Supports for third-party reporting.