This is a private reference site, not a Dinwiddie County or Virginia government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, authorize or carry out a release, accept bond, or retrieve an official booking or release record. Contact the government office responsible for the specific custody episode.
Choose the Correct Records Office
A Dinwiddie arrest can create records at more than one agency. The Sheriff handles the short-term Dinwiddie County Lockup and local custody movement. Meherrin River Regional Jail, often shortened to MRRJ, keeps the regional booking and release record after admission. VADOC holds state-prison and active state-supervision records. Use the contact that matches the event instead of asking one office to speak for another.
Dinwiddie County Sheriff’s Office13850 Courthouse Road
Dinwiddie, VA 23841
Mailing: PO Box 120, Dinwiddie, VA 23841
804-469-4550
Lobby: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Official Sheriff page
Use the Sheriff for a local intake, a release that occurred before MRRJ admission, a transfer from the lockup, or a local booking photograph if one was created and maintained. The Sheriff’s FOIA officer is Major William Knott at wknott@dinwiddieva.us. Written requests use the same PO Box and main telephone number.
Meherrin River Regional Jail Records and FOIAFOIA Officer Shelley Slaughter
PO Box 10
Alberta, VA 23821
434-949-6700, extension 204
foia@mrrj.org
Official MRRJ FOIA page
Use MRRJ Records for a regional booking, current custody, movement or release entry, release date and time, release type, destination, or MRRJ booking photograph. The Main Facility is at 9000 Boydton Plank Road, Alberta, VA 23821, with the general number 434-949-6700. MRRJ’s online contact form also offers Records and FOIA request routing.
Virginia Department of Corrections6900 Atmore Drive
Richmond, Virginia
Mailing: PO Box 26963, Richmond, VA 23261
804-674-3000
docmail@vadoc.virginia.gov
VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator
Use VADOC for a state-responsible prisoner, time-computation question, state release document, or active community-supervision record. A Dinwiddie arrest alone does not make VADOC the custodian. Confirm that the person entered state responsibility before asking VADOC to resolve the record.
Petersburg District 7 Probation and Parole6 Brasfield Parkway
Petersburg, VA 23805
804-524-6542
VADOC community supervision
District 7 is the field-supervision contact for Dinwiddie County. Call to verify the responsible office for an active probation or parole matter because an assignment can change. The Virginia Parole Board, not District 7, decides parole grants, denials, and revocations.
Use these paths to narrow the question before contacting an office:
- For a released person or an episode-specific release record, begin with the Dinwiddie County released inmate search and records path.
- For current post-release supervision, use Parole / Probation and then confirm the assigned district.
- For the absence of an official same-day feed and the proper fallback, see Released Last 24 Hours.
- For an estimated date or alert, use Inmate Release Date or the VINELink Release Check.
- For one facility, use the Dinwiddie County Lockup or the appropriate MRRJ facility page listed below.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, search the statewide VADOC locator and use the DOC ID when known.
- For federal custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator; for immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator.