District 28 Release Supervision
VADOC District 28 is located in Radford and serves the City of Radford plus Floyd, Montgomery, and Pulaski counties. It administers adult state community supervision. A person can report there after release from a VADOC facility, after a local jail term followed by state probation, or under another qualifying state court order. Being assigned to District 28 means the person is in the community unless a later warrant, arrest, or revocation has changed the status.
The office does not make discretionary parole decisions. The Virginia Parole Board handles that function for legally eligible cases. VADOC processes the release and community corrections staff administer the conditions. The Pulaski court record shows probation imposed by the judge. Each source answers a separate question.
| System | Role |
|---|---|
| District 28 | Administers adult state probation and parole |
| Virginia Parole Board | Decides eligible discretionary parole matters |
| Pulaski courts | Issue probation, sentence, and revocation orders |
| NRVRJ | Records the local or regional jail release event |
| New River Community Corrections | Handles local pretrial and qualifying local supervision |
Confirm District 28 Status
Start with the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator. Use an exact legal name and VADOC number when known. Compare identifiers and preserve the precise public status. An active supervisee result can support community release, but VADOC warns that locator information updates daily and may be inaccurate or outdated.
- Identify the court case, sentence, and release agency.
- Search the VADOC locator and distinguish incarceration from supervision.
- Compare any supervising-office information with District 28.
- Read the signed Conditions of Probation or Conditions of Parole.
- Contact VADOC when the current public record is ambiguous.
District staff may limit information due to law, confidentiality, or safety. Ask for the current public status or a specific existing record, not private case-management details. A court sentencing or revocation order is authoritative for the term imposed. VADOC is authoritative for its administration of that term.
District 28 Records Contact
The VADOC facilities and offices directory is the official source for District 28. The office sits in Radford rather than Pulaski, which can be easy to miss when searching by county name. Its service area expressly includes Pulaski County. The District 28 resource directory supplies a second official office reference.
2003 West Main Street
Radford, VA 24141
Phone: 540-831-5850
Serves Radford, Floyd, Montgomery, and Pulaski
For records, identify the supervisee, VADOC number if known, court, approximate order or release date, and exact existing document sought. VADOC's FOIA guidance says requests can go to the district chief maintaining a probation or parole record. For a fully inactive person, the inactive-offender record process may apply.
A personal name for the district chief was observed during research, but office leadership can change. The live VADOC listing should be checked rather than publishing a potentially dated name. The office address, service area, and agency role are more durable routing facts.
Build a supervision history from the offices that created each part of it. The Pulaski County court record supplies the sentencing order, any revocation order, and later judicial action. VADOC custody records address the prison release and conditions imposed at that transition. District 28 administers active community supervision and may hold a discharge or case-closing record. Those documents answer different questions, so one should not be used as a substitute for another. The district may also limit personal details that are not publicly releasable. Date-stamp every status response and confirm whether it describes an active case, an inactive file, or only the document available to the responding office.
Pulaski Probation Versus Parole
Probation is imposed by a court. It can follow jail or prison, or it can operate without an active custodial term. Parole is conditional early release under statutory and Parole Board authority for a sentence that remains eligible. Virginia abolished discretionary parole for most felonies committed on or after January 1, 1995, but older sentences and specific exceptions remain.
A claim that Virginia has no parole is therefore wrong. The Board's monthly decision reports and public-meeting notices concern only cases within its authority. A favorable decision is not the physical release timestamp. VADOC must complete release processing, and the person may then report for supervision.
- Supervision
- Rules and reporting administered in the community after or instead of confinement.
- Parole
- Conditional release granted under authority for a legally eligible sentence.
- Probation
- A court-ordered community term with stated conditions.
- Discharge
- The formal end of the supervision term recorded by the responsible agency.
Note: The court order establishes the ordered term, while VADOC records show active administration and eventual discharge.
Pulaski Local Supervision Boundary
New River Community Corrections and Pretrial Services is a different system. It has a Pulaski office and serves the 27th Judicial District. Its work includes pretrial supervision and local probation or community-corrections functions for eligible cases. Pretrial supervision concerns a person released while a charge remains pending. It is not state parole.
Calling District 28 about a locally supervised pretrial bond can lead to a no-record answer even though supervision exists elsewhere. Read the court order for the named supervising program. The New River office is at 58 North Washington Avenue in Pulaski, telephone 540-994-5061. Posted hours observed in the research were Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Physical release also remains separate. NRVRJ records when its jail custody ended. Community Corrections records local supervision. District 28 records state supervision. The court records the legal authority. Accurate routing follows that chain.
District 28 Violation Records
A supervision violation does not erase the earlier release. It is a later allegation or finding tied to the conditions. An absconder is a person alleged to have stopped reporting or otherwise avoided supervision. Neither term automatically proves a current warrant or current jail location.
Virginia law permits action on alleged parole violations, including a warrant by authorized officials. Use current VADOC or law-enforcement information for a live warrant. A locator entry that disappears is not enough to infer a warrant. The court docket may show a probation show-cause or revocation proceeding, while the Parole Board's published reports may contain available parole-violation information.
If custody resumes, check the actual holding agency. A Pulaski-related violation could lead to NRVRJ, a VADOC facility, or another jurisdiction depending on the process. The supervision office is not a detention site, so its address should never be reported as the person's custody location.
District 28 Release Documents
VADOC's facility-release process supplies documents that bridge prison and supervision. A released person may sign an Order of Release, Conditions of Probation, or Conditions of Parole, depending on status. Those papers identify the legal basis and terms more precisely than a generic “released” label.
A projected release date is not enough. Time computation can change through credits, conduct, amended orders, detainers, or parole action. On actual state release, VADOC says the release documents are reviewed and signed. District 28 then administers the assigned state supervision rather than recalculating the prison sentence as a public lookup service.
When a precise historical status matters, request the release paper, supervision record, and discharge record that already exist. Avoid asking the office to create a summary. The records can be subject to lawful limits, but a focused request makes the custodian and date range clear.
Verify Pulaski Supervision Discharge
Supervision ends through formal discharge, expiration, court action, or another governing process, not merely because a name no longer appears online. Start with the VADOC locator, then obtain the discharge or closing record when the public status is missing. Compare the date to the court term and any later revocation order.
The Pulaski County released-inmate record path helps separate the jail's Release Date, VADOC's state status, court authority, and later supervision. District 28 should be used when state community supervision is the actual question, not as a catch-all list of local releases.
Note: A person can be off institutional custody but still under court or VADOC control until a formal discharge ends supervision.