Bland County Jail Roster Overview
Bland County Sheriff Jason Ramsey's official sheriff page points jail custody questions to New River Valley Regional Jail, not to a separate Bland County jail. NRVRJ is in Dublin, Virginia, and its homepage says it serves Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Pulaski, Wythe, and the City of Radford. For a person arrested in Bland County and committed to local jail custody, the direct public starting point is the New River Valley Regional Jail Inmate Lookup.
The lookup is an older Digital Solutions public form. It does not require a login or payment, and it supports name searches, date-of-birth narrowing, identifier searches, and a released-inmate checkbox. The visible portal does not publish an exact refresh schedule or a fixed retention window for released inmates, so the safest reading is that a record appears after NRVRJ enters the booking and that released records may remain searchable for some period without a posted cutoff.
NRVRJ is also different from Bland Correctional Center. Bland Correctional Center is physically in Bland County, but it is a Virginia Department of Corrections prison for sentenced state custody, not the booking jail for a new Bland County arrest. State prisoners are searched through VADOC, federal prisoners through BOP after commitment, immigration detainees through ICE ODLS, and custody notifications through Virginia VINELink.
The research did not locate an official Bland County Sheriff mobile app or NRVRJ app with an app-only roster or warrant lookup. Vendor apps may support deposits, phone accounts, or messaging, but no official sheriff or NRVRJ roster app was found.
The official NRVRJ lookup page at iml.nrvrj.org shows the name and identifier search layout used for Bland County jail custody.
Use that portal for regional jail custody first, then move to phone, in-person, FOIA, state, federal, immigration, or notification channels when the roster does not answer the question.
How to Use the Bland County Inmate Roster
To find someone in the Bland County jail system, start with the exact spelling shown on arrest paperwork, a court notice, or a family message. Because NRVRJ is regional, search results can include people from other member counties. The profile's County field can show the commitment county, and an inspected public sample showed a county other than Bland, which is a reminder not to treat every NRVRJ result as a Bland County inmate.
- Open the NRVRJ Inmate Lookup and choose the name-search area unless you already have a booking, permanent, state, county, FBI, or ICE number.
- Enter the last name first. Add the first name or date of birth when the last name returns too many results.
- Use the released-inmate checkbox when the person may have bonded out, been released, or moved before the search.
- Click a result row to open the profile and read the mugshot area, booking number, permanent ID, commitment date, bond entries, and charge rows.
- If no result appears, call NRVRJ at 540-643-2000, then use agency records requests or alternate locators based on the custody type.
Bland County Roster Search Fields
The NRVRJ portal has two main search modes. The name path works for most public searches. The identifier path is useful when a court, jail, state, federal, or immigration number is already known.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | Text | Unspecified | Used in Search by Name. Portal instructions say to enter first and last name in the boxes provided. |
| Last Name | Text | Unspecified | A last-name search is supported. A research test returned results for a common last name. |
| Date of Birth | Masked text | Optional or unspecified | Displayed as mm/dd/yyyy with a masked input. |
| Include released inmates | Checkbox | Optional | Appears under name search and identifier search. |
| Select Identifier | Dropdown | Required only for identifier search | Booking Number, Permanent Number, State ID, County ID, FBI Number, or ICE Number. |
| Value | Text | Required for identifier search | Enter the selected identifier value. |
| Search Button | Button/image | Not applicable | Runs the selected search. The Enter key can submit from an active field. |
| Reset Button | Button/image | Not applicable | Clears fields and released-inmate selections. |
What a Bland County Inmate Profile Shows
A full NRVRJ public profile can show more than a result row. The research sample reached through a search session displayed a booking photo, physical descriptors, inmate identifiers, incarceration details, bond information, and charge information. Housing, pod, cell, and court-date fields were not observed in the public sample, so those should be checked through the jail or court rather than assumed from the roster.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Inmate Name | Last, first, middle on result lists, with full name on the profile. |
| Booking Number | Jail booking event identifier, observed in a year-plus-sequence style format. |
| Permanent ID | A continuing jail identifier that is separate from the booking number. |
| Date of Birth | Shown in result lists and should be handled carefully in examples. |
| Release Date | Result-list column, blank for current custody in inspected results. |
| Mugshot | Booking photo displayed on the opened public profile. |
| Demographics | Sex, race, ethnicity, country of birth, marital status, citizenship, and physical descriptors. |
| County and Commitment Date | The committing county and the date the person was accepted into jail custody. |
| Bond | Case number, amount, percent, total, bond type, status, posted by, post date, and grand total where present. |
| Charges | Case number, offense date, code, description, grade, and degree. |
| Housing and Court Date | Not observed in the inspected public sample. |
Full Access Channel Chain
Roster access is only the first channel. For current regional jail custody, search NRVRJ online. If the portal is unavailable, incomplete, or unclear, call NRVRJ at 540-643-2000. Bland Sheriff's dispatch lines, 276-688-4311 and 276-688-0217, can route immediate law-enforcement questions, but the Bland County Sheriff page specifically points jail custody to NRVRJ.
In-person custody questions belong at NRVRJ, 108 Baker Road, Dublin, VA 24084, not at the Bland Sheriff's Office lobby. Records not shown online should be requested from the agency that holds them: NRVRJ for jail booking records, the Bland County Sheriff's Office for sheriff incident or arrest records, and the court clerk for court files. NRVRJ posts a FOIA statement, and Virginia FOIA is found in Title 2.2, Chapter 37.
| Custody or Need | Where to Look |
|---|---|
| Current Bland County regional jail custody | NRVRJ Inmate Lookup, then NRVRJ phone at 540-643-2000. |
| Released or older booking information | Use the released-inmate checkbox first, then request records from NRVRJ or the arresting agency. |
| Sentenced Virginia prison custody | VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator. |
| Bland Correctional Center | Use VADOC because it is a state prison, not the regional jail roster. |
| Federal custody after BOP commitment | Federal BOP Inmate Locator. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System. |
| Custody notifications | Virginia VINELink/VINE. |
Bland County Jail Facilities and Contacts
The county's modern custody map has two separate correctional paths. New River Valley Regional Jail handles the local and regional jail role for Bland County arrestees. Bland Correctional Center is inside Bland County but belongs to VADOC and holds sentenced state prisoners. The Bland County Sheriff page lists Sheriff Jason Ramsey and gives the county law-enforcement contact points, while NRVRJ and VADOC hold their own custody records.
New River Valley Regional Jail
108 Baker Road
Dublin, VA 24084
540-643-2000
Regional jail for Bland County pretrial and locally sentenced custody.
Bland Correctional Center
256 Bland Farm Road
Bland, VA 24315
276-688-3341
VADOC state prison for sentenced state custody.
Booking Process in Bland County
A typical local path starts with arrest by the Bland County Sheriff's Office or another law-enforcement agency, followed by magistrate or court processing and commitment to NRVRJ if the person is detained. NRVRJ has a magistrate's office, medical unit, secure vehicle sallyport, professional visiting areas, and administrative offices. The roster should be described as a public output after the jail enters the booking, not as a guaranteed real-time feed.
NRVRJ's account page says cash, coins, money orders, or institutional checks in a person's possession during booking are placed into an inmate account. Public profile fields can then show booking number, permanent ID, commitment county, commitment date, bond entries, and charges. Bond entries in an inspected sample were posted by a magistrate, which matches Virginia's initial bond role. Court records develop separately through Virginia courts and the Bland County Commonwealth's Attorney.
Visitation and Communication Schedule
NRVRJ separates attorney, clergy, and family/friends visitation on its visitation hub. The accessible research did not capture a complete official family/friends visitation schedule, so no daily visit calendar should be invented. Phone availability is documented, and mail, money, and photo rules are published on NRVRJ pages. Confirm current visit eligibility directly with NRVRJ before travel.
The NRVRJ visitation hub at nrvrj.org/inmate-visitation separates family/friend, clergy, and attorney visit paths.
Because the posted research did not include exact public visit days and times, the table below uses only documented communication windows and documented channel limits.
| Channel | Documented Schedule or Rule | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Family and friends visitation | Use NRVRJ's current visitation hub and subpage. | Exact schedule was not captured in accessible research. Do not rely on stale visit times. |
| Attorney visits | Separate professional channel. | Use the attorney-visitation subpage or call NRVRJ. |
| Clergy visits | Separate clergy channel. | Use NRVRJ's clergy visitation information. |
| Inmate telephones | 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | Phones can be turned off for meals, headcounts, emergencies, or as deemed necessary. |
| Incoming calls | Not accepted on the inmate phone system. | Calls are subject to monitoring and recording. |
Mail, Phone, and Inmate Contact
Personal inmate mail for NRVRJ goes to P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. The envelope must include the full facility name and state, the inmate's full name and identifier, and the sender's full name and physical address in the upper-left corner. The Phoenix address is for personal mail only. It does not apply to legal mail, checks, or money orders.
NRVRJ identifies PCS, a subsidiary of Global Tel*Link, as the phone provider. ConnectDirect/GTL family support is listed at 877-650-4249, and AdvancePay prepaid calling is recommended for accepting calls. The mail page also describes GettingOut profile and gallery photo rules, including limits on altered-face filters, hand signs, drugs, weapons, social-media screenshots, video-visit screenshots, and images without a clear face.
Commissary and Inmate Funds
NRVRJ says booking cash, coins, money orders, or institutional checks in the inmate's possession are placed into an account under the inmate's name. Remaining funds can be mailed after release or picked up in person. Money orders must be made out to NRVRJ. The page says money orders or certified checks written out to the inmate are not accepted, and cash mailed to the jail is at the sender's risk.
In-person deposits can include money orders at the front desk during the day and cash through the lobby kiosk. The kiosk accepts $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 denominations. Online and telephone deposits use ConnectNetwork or AdvancePay, with MasterCard or Visa accepted online and phone deposits at 800-483-8314. Transaction fees may apply, so confirm the current cost before sending money.
Note: Confirm custody with NRVRJ before sending money, mailing personal items, or arranging visits, especially when a Bland County case may have moved to VADOC, BOP, ICE, or release status.