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Riverside Regional Jail Overview

Riverside Regional Jail is operated by the Riverside Regional Jail Authority. It is the primary local jail path for Charles City County arrestees who are not released at the magistrate or bond stage. The authority serves Charles City, Chesterfield, Prince George, Surry, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, and Petersburg. Official authority material states that the jail primarily houses inmates from member jurisdictions and can accept other inmates, including state and federal inmates, when space is available.

The jail sits in North Prince George, outside Charles City County. That location can confuse readers who expect a Charles City County jail building. The county sheriff page's jail link and Riverside's member-locality materials make the local arrangement clear: Charles City County inmate lookup is a regional jail lookup when the person is in local jail custody.

Riverside Regional Jail Population

Population figures in the research are regional, not Charles City-only. VPM reported in May 2024 that Riverside had capacity for about 1,500 incarcerated people and about 400 staff. Riverside ACFR snippets reported total ADP increases in FY 2024 and FY 2025, with a prior member-jurisdiction ADP decrease in FY 2023. These trends describe the regional facility that serves Charles City County, not a separate county headcount.

Riverside's 2025 staffing analysis describes an Operations Division with general population, perimeter security, housing, medical housing, juvenile, mailroom, lobby, and master control functions. It also gives context for why profile fields may show precise housing locations.

Lookup at Riverside Regional Jail

The correct roster for this facility is the Riverside inmate lookup, which redirects to a DSI-ITI IML portal. The search is public and free. It supports name searching, date-of-birth narrowing, identifier searching, and a released-inmate checkbox. For Charles City County users, Riverside is the place to check pretrial jail custody, local sentenced jail custody, and recent regional jail bookings.

1. Open the Riverside Inmate Lookup Tool from the jail site or the direct IML portal.
2. Search by last name first, then add first name or date of birth when needed.
3. Use Booking Number, Permanent Number, State ID, County ID, FBI Number, or ICE Number if one is known.
4. Click the result row and confirm name, date of birth, county, charges, bond, and housing.
5. Check VADOC, BOP, ICE ODLS, courts, or VINE when the person has moved out of local jail custody.

The direct Riverside IML portal shows the search controls used for Charles City County inmate lookup.

The identifier search is useful when a court, bond, or agency record gives a number instead of a full name match.

Riverside Regional Jail Contact

Use Riverside for custody questions, jail records, visitation, money, phone, and jail property questions tied to a person held there. Use the Charles City County Sheriff's Office for sheriff-created law-enforcement records and county business. For formal charges and case outcomes, use the court clerk or Virginia court systems.

Visiting Riverside Regional Jail

Riverside schedules all inmate visits online through the visitation portal. Visitors should arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start. Arrival more than 15 minutes late for a regular scheduled visit means denial. Disruptive or argumentative conduct can lead to removal and future-visit denial. Phones provided in visitation must be used at all times.

The ICSolutions / The Visitor page for Riverside covers video visitation registration and remote visit setup.

Remote visits may be completed from a Windows computer, Android device, or iOS device, but off-site visits are fee-based and connection issues are not refunded.

Riverside Mail Phone Money

Riverside's FAQ says books are no longer accepted into the facility. Inmates may order books from tablets, including free titles. Court clothing is no longer accepted because the jail provides clothing for court. Keys and bank cards may be released only within the first 15 days by appointment with the property department. After 15 days, property must be mailed out by the inmate using the required request form.

Riverside Commissary Deposits

Keefe Commissary Network handles Riverside deposits and care packages. The research documented online deposits, mail or certified funds, and jail lobby kiosks. Credit fees apply. Cash deposits at lobby kiosks were noted as having no fee. Certified funds can be delivered to lobby personnel during the listed weekday and weekend windows and should be payable to the inmate's name in care of Riverside Regional Jail with the jail-assigned ID number.

Riverside Booking and Intake

For a Charles City County arrest, custody begins with law enforcement and a magistrate or judicial officer. If the person is held, Riverside receives the person and creates the jail booking record. The profile can show booking number, permanent ID, demographic fields, mugshot images, housing location, commitment date, bond rows, charge rows, detainers, and hearing information. Virginia Code requires jailers to keep a record describing each committed person, confinement terms, offense or cause, and date received.

Riverside charge rows should be compared with court records. Jail charges can reflect arrest, warrant, probation, or booking allegations. Formal court charges may later be amended, reduced, dismissed, nolle prosequi, or indicted in a different form. For local cases, Charles City General District Court, Circuit Court, and Virginia case search systems are the better source for filed case status.

Riverside Programs and Conditions

Riverside lists a broad set of programs and services, including AA/NA, HIV/AIDS prevention, law library, leisure reading, tax forms, translators, election process and voting, mental-health counseling and referrals, substance-abuse referrals, job search and interviewing skills, anger management, parenting, trauma groups, therapeutic community phases, GED, Adult Basic Education, ESL, college correspondence, and veterans services.

Recent news should be read with dates attached. VPM reported in May 2024 that legislators sought reforms at Riverside and described concerns about safety conditions, deaths, and programming while also reporting capacity and staffing figures. A July 2025 congressional-office repost of Progress-Index reporting raised transparency concerns about an ICE agreement. These sources are relevant background, but they do not change the lookup rule: local custody starts with Riverside, sentenced state custody uses VADOC, and immigration custody should be checked in ICE ODLS.