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Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Overview

Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail is operated by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Authority. The official ACRJ home page states that the jail serves Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and Nelson County. The facility opened in fall 1974 after Charlottesville and Albemarle replaced older local jails, and it was renamed Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in 1996. Nelson County is represented in the regional authority structure, including through the sheriff's board role described in the Nelson research.

The facility type is regional jail. It holds people arrested or committed from Nelson County, Albemarle County, and Charlottesville, including pretrial detainees and locally sentenced inmates. ACRJ Records distinguishes people serving jail sentences of 12 months or less with no detainers or pending charges elsewhere from people with longer sentences or state-responsible status, where VADOC becomes more relevant. A current official rated capacity number was not located in the accessible official sources, so no fixed capacity is stated here.

ACRJ Population and Nelson County

ACRJ is the facility that makes Nelson County inmate population research regional. The Nelson County Jail Utilization Report counted 3,206 Nelson-responsible intakes into ACRJ from 2015 through 2024. The ACRJ facility report listed total average daily population at 259.51 in December 2024, with pretrial ADP at 158.97. Those figures describe the regional facility and Nelson's use of it, not a live Nelson-only roster count.

Lookup ACRJ Inmates

ACRJ links its inmate locator to Virginia VINE person search. That is the first public lookup channel for a Nelson County inmate believed to be held at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. ACRJ Records is the next step when VINE does not answer a release, time-credit, or custody-status question. For state sentences, probation, parole, or DOC authority, use the VADOC inmate and supervisee locator.

1. Search Virginia VINE by person details and select Virginia.
2. Check whether the custody result identifies Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
3. Call ACRJ Records at 434-977-6981 ext. 303 during records hours if VINE does not resolve the jail custody question.
4. Use VADOC when the person has a state sentence, supervision status, or DOC authority.
5. Use BOP or ICE only when federal sentence or immigration custody facts point to those systems.

Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Contact

Use the main ACRJ address for official jail correspondence, finance mail, and facility contact. Use the records extension for records-specific questions, including eligible release-date and jail-credit issues. Use the communication contact path for phone, tablet, video, or inmate ID questions tied to mail.

Visiting ACRJ Inmates

ACRJ's current in-person visitation research says each inmate has the opportunity for one 30-minute visit per month with up to three visitors. Visits are first come, first served, and visitors are turned away when the available time slots are filled. All visitors must be on the inmate's approved list. The current housing-area schedule is posted by date and unit, so it should be confirmed directly before travel from Nelson County.

The ACRJ visitation page is the official source for the current housing-unit schedule and visitor search notice.

Because the schedule is posted as current facility guidance, confirm the visit block before driving to Charlottesville.

ACRJ Mail, Phone, and Money

General inmate mail goes through the Smart Communications processing center. The ACRJ mail page lists the format as the inmate first and last name and ID number, care of Mail Processing Center, P.O. Box 9197, Seminole, FL 33775-9197. The jail instructs callers to use 434-977-6981 ext. 268 for the inmate ID number needed for mail.

Smart Communications is also the inmate telephone provider. Inmates may use wall phones or a tablet phone dialer app. Calls may be made 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, subject to security changes. All calls are recorded and monitored except approved privileged communication. Three-way calls are prohibited. ACRJ research lists four free 15-minute calls every Sunday for each inmate.

ACRJ Booking and Classification

When a Nelson County arrest results in commitment to ACRJ, intake leads into classification and housing. ACRJ classification case managers interview each inmate and gather current and prior criminal charges, medical and mental-health issues, education level, temperament, and criminogenic needs. Housing assignment is based on those facts and other available information. Case managers may also provide addresses, notary service, legal-document copying, and information for contacting attorneys or courts, but they do not provide legal advice.

Medical and mental-health screening starts at commitment. ACRJ reports health care in person or on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, a nine-bed medical holding unit, intake screening for tuberculosis and contagious respiratory illness, dental issues, and mental-health concerns. Sick call and chronic care occur five days per week, with urgent or emergent visits when appropriate. The medical page says care is not refused based on ability to pay.

The ACRJ classification page describes intake screening and housing assignment after commitment.

Classification is the bridge between booking records and day-to-day housing, programs, medical review, and release planning.

ACRJ Programs and Reentry

ACRJ publishes detailed program information. The Programs Department states that its goal is reintegration into the community as productive and independently successful. Listed programs include Coping with Anger, Substance Abuse Matrix, Bringing Peace to Relationships, Breaking Chains of Trauma, Employment and Finance, Moral Reconation Therapy, GED, Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, and special education for eligible students age 22 and under.

Classification and reentry services can include transition requests for inmates with release dates, housing assistance, adjustment letters, veterans affairs, child support, and community resources. ACRJ also references workforce, litter crew, and work release functions in its public materials. These services matter for Nelson County because local custody can include people returning to rural Nelson communities after a regional jail stay in Charlottesville.

ACRJ Renovation and Planning

The ACRJ renovation project is the main official facility-planning issue in the Nelson research. The project mission focuses on physical facilities, capacity, physical and mental well-being, gender equality, alternatives to 24/7 incarceration such as home electronic incarceration, and reentry programming. Nelson County hosted a public renovation forum at The Nelson Center in Lovingston in February 2024, with ACRJ and design project speakers.