Northern Neck Regional Jail Information

Northern Neck Regional Jail, in Warsaw, Virginia is a regional jail system servicing Richmond County, Virginia; Westmoreland County, Virginia; Northumberland County, Virginia, and Gloucester County, Virginia, as well as the Town of Warsaw. It was created in response to a rise in local jail populations in these areas in the 1980s, coupled with the realization that Richmond and Westmoreland's counties did not have the funds to construct two separate jail facilities. Instead, they decided to pool resources and construct a regional jail facility. Subsequently, other counties decided to join the regional jail facility. In July 1995, the jail began accepting inmates. At the time, the jail had 42 staff members and a 198-inmate capacity. In, 1996 the jail secured a federal contract to house prisoners, increasing its staff to 74 and its inmate capacity to 268. In 2000, a third expansion brought the staff to 100, with an inmate capacity of 460. The jail has multiple detention levels and different levels of supervision, including a dormitory, direct supervision, and popular remote areas.