FCI Petersburg Medium Custody
FCI Petersburg Medium is a medium-security federal correctional institution operated by BOP. It is a separate facility from FCI Petersburg Low and its minimum-security satellite camp. Sharing a complex and federal release system does not erase the institution boundary. Contact details, security level, and a person's listed location must remain tied to Medium.
A sentenced federal prisoner at Medium is not an RRJ detainee and is not a VADOC state prisoner. Riverside Regional Jail holds regional local detainees and sentenced people within its authority. VADOC handles Virginia state custody and state supervision. Neither agency is the official source for the federal sentence or its release date.
The official FCI Petersburg Medium page confirms the facility identity and current contact.
The official facility card prevents the Medium institution from being confused with the Low institution, camp, RRJ, or a Petersburg city agency.
FCI Petersburg Medium Release Paths
A departure from Medium may be a direct community release, a move to residential reentry, a home-confinement transition, transfer to another BOP prison, or delivery to a detainer. Federal supervised release may follow imprisonment under a federal court judgment. The U.S. Probation system administers that supervision, while BOP records the end of BOP custody.
These outcomes are not interchangeable. A residential reentry center can be part of a structured transition. Home confinement changes the place where conditions are carried out. A transfer keeps the person in custody. A detainer can put the person into state, local, or immigration custody at the moment BOP custody ends. “Released from Medium” must therefore be paired with the location and next authority.
| Medium departure | Best next record |
|---|---|
| Community release | Past BOP release result and federal judgment |
| Federal supervised release | Federal court conditions and U.S. Probation status |
| BOP transfer | Current BOP Location field |
| Detainer handoff | BOP result plus receiving agency record |
Confirm FCI Petersburg Medium Release
Search the BOP Inmate Locator by federal identifying number whenever possible. The tool accepts BOP, DCDC, FBI, and INS numbers. A name search uses first, middle, and last name, with optional race, age, and sex. Results include the name, register number, age, race, sex, Release Date, and Location. BOP's public coverage begins in 1982.
- Choose the locator's number or name search and enter the most exact identity data available.
- Match the register number and personal details before reading the custody result.
- Check whether Location still names a BOP institution or instead shows Released or no institution.
- Treat a future Release Date as projected and record the search date.
- For a past release result, check the federal docket and any known receiving authority.
A past date plus Released, Not in BOP Custody, or no institution is retrospective evidence that BOP custody ended. The BOP record-field explanation provides the official interpretation. It does not say that the person has no supervision, open case, warrant, or custody in another system.
FCI Petersburg Medium Records Contact
The facility's general number may route current operational questions. It does not turn protected correctional files into public telephone information. Use the locator for the standard public result. Use a formal federal records process when a fuller record is needed.
FCI Petersburg Medium1060 River Road
Hopewell, VA 23860
Phone: 804-504-7200
Operator: Federal Bureau of Prisons
A BOP FOIA or Privacy Act request should identify the person by full name, date of birth, register number, institution, and approximate release date. The former inmate should follow BOP's identity-verification directions. A third party may need written authorization for personal file material.
Ask for a specific existing record or releasable field, such as the recorded date BOP custody ended or the institution tied to the release. BOP may withhold protected personal, security, medical, investigative, or third-party data. Federal access law applies. Virginia's FOIA process and adult booking-photo statute do not govern this federal institution.
Read Medium Release Date Results
A future date on the BOP locator is not an actual release event. BOP calculations can change, including calculations affected by First Step Act credits. Court amendments, sentence corrections, earned credits, loss of credits, disciplinary decisions, and other legal inputs can alter the projected result. Only BOP's current computation and later retrospective record answer the federal custody question.
The date becomes stronger evidence after it passes and the location no longer names an active federal institution. Even then, distinguish BOP custody from federal supervised release. Supervised release is a term ordered by the federal court that usually follows prison. It is not parole and should not be verified through the Virginia Parole Board or VADOC probation system.
The federal docket and BOP result complement each other. A judgment sets the sentence and any later supervision, while the locator reports BOP's public custody status. A court date alone may not prove the exact exit, and a BOP release line does not describe every supervision condition. Use each record for the question it actually answers.
- Release Date
- The BOP field that may be future and projected or past and retrospective.
- Location
- The institution or released status shown in the public result.
- Federal supervised release
- Post-prison supervision ordered by a federal court.
- Detainer
- A legal basis for another authority to receive the person.
Note: A federal court judgment explains the sentence and supervision, while the BOP locator shows custody status and the displayed federal release date.
Petersburg Medium in Prince George
FCI Petersburg Medium carries two location cues that often hide its county connection. “Petersburg” is the institution name, and “Hopewell” appears in the postal address, yet the federal complex is physically in Prince George County. Its place on the county facility map is geographic. Its records remain federal.
That distinction matters because Prince George County has a regional jail, a regional juvenile facility, and two distinct federal institution pages, but no operating VADOC prison was identified within its borders. BOP is the custodian for Medium. RRJ is the adult local custodian. DJJ and the juvenile court govern the confidential youth route. VADOC handles state custody and state supervision.
A local arrest can precede a federal case, but each agency documents only its own episode. An RRJ transfer record may show when regional custody ended. The federal docket can show the legal federal proceedings. BOP then shows the federal institution and release date. The Prince George County release records path helps keep those episodes in order.
The Hopewell postal address should not be used to reroute a federal records request to the City of Hopewell. Mail geography and record custody are different. Facility contact belongs with Medium, sentence and release custody data belong with BOP, and the federal case remains with the federal court that entered the judgment.
Avoid Medium Release False Matches
Search with the exact phrase “FCI Petersburg Medium,” plus “BOP” and the federal register number. A broad Petersburg search may lead to the independent City of Petersburg, RRJ, Low, or an unrelated prison. A broad Prince George search may lead to Prince George's County, Maryland. The official BOP domain and facility code provide a strong identity check.
Do not interpret a Low or camp result as a Medium record. The institutions share a complex but have distinct facility cards and contacts. Likewise, do not treat a missing Medium location as automatic community release. First look at the Release Date and exact locator wording, then consider residential reentry, transfer, or a detainer.
When another custodian may have received the person, use that agency's correct tool. ICE's locator addresses current immigration detention and is not a complete release archive. A state or local receiving agency should be checked by exact name. No result in a second system is only a lead unless the sending and receiving records align.
Identity still comes first. Compare the register number, middle name, age, race, and sex shown by BOP. A similar name is not enough. Save the date of each lookup so later changes in a projected date or location can be placed in sequence.