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Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail Overview

Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail is managed and operated by the Sheriff of Botetourt County. The official jail page names the facility as Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail and also uses Botetourt-Craig County Jail in a smoke-free notice. Its role is local and regional custody, which means it holds arrestees awaiting court, locally sentenced inmates, work-release inmates, and people waiting for transfer to another authority. The Facility Map does not identify a separate municipal jail for Buchanan, Fincastle, or Troutville, and county police protection runs through the sheriff's office for those incorporated towns.

The jail is housed in the Botetourt-Craig Public Safety Building in Fincastle, the county seat. Public research identifies pod-based housing labels through the visitation schedule, including A-POD, B, C, D-POD, male administrative housing, female administrative housing, female gym housing, T-POD, and male and female work-release labels. Those labels support a careful description of the custody setting without inventing a full floor plan or security classification beyond local and regional jail use.

The official Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail page lists the jail's address, mailing address, 24-hour line, office hours, and jail service links.

That page is the best local source for facility identity and contact details before using separate pages for visits, mail, money, and programs.

Botetourt-Craig Capacity and Population

Official capacity data comes from the Virginia State Board of Local and Regional Jails capacity reports. The 2025 report row for Botetourt/Craig Regional lists 265 permanent beds, no temporary beds, no special-purpose beds, 265 actual capacity, 124 rated capacity, and an average daily population of 95.32. Earlier reports showed average daily population of 87.15 for the 2024 report period and 100.17 for the 2023 report period. Those figures are the defensible numbers to use for Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail, rather than unofficial jail-directory figures.

The published numbers do not show the jail operating above rated capacity in the periods reviewed. The FY 2025 average daily population equals about 76.9 percent of the rated capacity and about 36.0 percent of actual capacity. Public demographic detail is thinner. The reviewed reports did not publish a local race, sex, age, charge-level, pretrial, sentenced, annual-booking, or length-of-stay breakdown for Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail.

Look Up Botetourt-Craig Inmates

Because Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail is a local and regional jail, the correct first lookup is the sheriff-linked Citizen Connect inmate confinements search. That source covers jail bookings and inmate confinements for the local jail path. It should not be used for sentenced VADOC prisoners, federal prisoners, or immigration detainees. A person who no longer appears in the local search may have been released, transferred, listed under another spelling, moved into VADOC custody, or placed in federal or ICE custody.

1. Open Citizen Connect from the sheriff's site or use the direct BotetourtCoVA inmate confinements URL.
2. Confirm that the selected agency is Botetourt County Sheriff's Office, BotetourtCoVA, or a Botetourt option shown by the portal.
3. Use the live fields shown by the portal. Research did not confirm the full set of search fields because bot protection blocked a full sample profile.
4. Call the 24-hour jail line at 540-928-2314 before assuming a person is not in local custody.
5. Use the VADOC locator for sentenced state inmates, the BOP locator for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody.

The access chain also includes Virginia VINE and VINELink for local custody notification, NAAVI for post-conviction state notification, and the sheriff's FOIA page for records not posted online. The research found no dedicated Botetourt sheriff app for inmate search. Paytel has a mobile app for visitation services, and VINE/VINELink mobile access is referenced by the sheriff.

Botetourt-Craig Address and Contact

The facility and sheriff's office share the North Roanoke Street public-safety location. The jail page lists administrative office hours for public counter purposes, while custody functions and intake must be confirmed through the 24-hour jail line. The county page separately lists a county jail phone number, and the sheriff's office main line remains useful for records routing and FOIA questions.

Official jail business mail is listed as P.O. Box 370, Fincastle, VA 24090. Regular inmate correspondence uses a separate mail-processing address in Greensboro, North Carolina, and should include the facility ID, detainee name, and detainee ID number. Visitors should not bring tobacco, vaping products, or other contraband. The jail is smoke-free, and the sheriff's notice says tobacco and vaping contraband is destroyed.

Visit Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail

Visitation and communications at Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail are handled through Paytel. The sheriff's visitation page says inmate visits are conducted through eMessaging, video, or phone. On-site visits are free, must be scheduled 24 hours in advance, and take place in the main lobby of the Botetourt-Craig Public Safety Building. Remote visits are paid and can be completed from a phone, tablet, or computer. Visitors must register and be approved before scheduling, and visitors under 18 must be accompanied by a registered adult visitor.

The sheriff's Paytel visitation page documents account setup, advance scheduling, visitor approval, monitoring, and housing-pod schedule labels.

The image source supports the Paytel and scheduling details, but the text extraction did not preserve exact day-to-pod alignment.

Botetourt-Craig Mail and Money

Normal inmate correspondence is not sent straight to the jail building. The sheriff's inmate correspondence page lists Botetourt County Jail, VA, P.O. Box 18247, Greensboro, NC 27419, Facility ID Number 5019, and says to include the detainee name and detainee ID number. Books follow a separate rule: new books are accepted only when mailed directly from the publisher, and hardback books, used books, and magazines are not accepted. All mail is subject to search.

Money and commissary deposits use JailATM, phone deposit numbers, and the lobby kiosk. The sheriff's commissary page says inmate ID numbers are required for most activities. Phone deposits can be made at 1-888-277-2535 or 1-866-394-0490 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The main lobby kiosk accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash. Online deposits are available through JailATM. Official research did not locate a fee schedule, so fees should be checked with JailATM or the phone vendor at the time of deposit.

Botetourt-Craig Booking and Bond

A typical local arrest route is arrest or transport by law enforcement, intake at Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail, identity and property processing, booking, initial custody placement, and later court records if charges are filed. The local sources do not publish a full booking checklist or refresh rate for online posting. New arrests may take time to appear in Citizen Connect, and an inmate ID number matters because it is needed for many jail services, including deposits, mail, and visits.

Bond is set through Virginia's court and magistrate process, not by the public roster itself. The sheriff's bonding page explains personal recognizance, unsecured bond, and secured bond. A secured bond can involve cash, property, or a bondsman, and the sheriff's example says a bondsman fee is often 10 to 15 percent of the bond amount. The official research did not locate bond-posting hours, accepted payment methods, or a jail counter payment rule, so families should call the jail line or follow the magistrate and court paperwork.

County Jail State Federal Custody

Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail is the local custody path for Botetourt County and Craig County detainees. It is not a VADOC prison, a BOP prison, or an ICE detention center. That distinction matters when a local search fails. Sentenced felony prisoners from Botetourt can leave the jail and enter the VADOC inmate and supervisee locator. VADOC searches by first and last name or by DOC ID, and JPay money deposits require the seven-digit inmate ID from the locator.

Botetourt's county FAQ says certain noncitizen arrestees committed to the jail are reported to ICE that day and described ICE custody transfers since February 2023. A local jail record can therefore lead to an immigration custody question, but the ICE locator is separate from the Botetourt jail roster.

Botetourt-Craig Jail Programs

The sheriff's inmate programs page lists several local services. The Inmate Work Crew Program is described as a program that benefits both the community and inmates preparing to return to society, while also helping with county maintenance tasks. Other listed programs include Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, career development and release transitioning, Blue Ridge Behavioral Health, BrightView addiction medicine services, Pathway Home Total Action for Progress, church services, and religious services.

Jail conditions and records are also shaped by state standards. The Board of Local and Regional Jails has authority over standards, inspections, audits, public reporting, and death reviews. The 2024 audits and inspections report listed a September inspection for Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail with corrective action approved. The death review report listed one death in CY 2022, none in CY 2023, and one in CY 2024. Those are governance facts, not a substitute for calling the jail about a current person in custody.