District 23 Supervision Status
VADOC District 23 serves the City of Virginia Beach. It is the local office route when the Virginia Department of Corrections locator shows that a released person is supervised in the community. Supervision means the person remains subject to sentence or court conditions outside an institution. It is not the same as discharge, which means the correctional sentence and supervision have ended.
District 23 also does not prove that every person it supervises came from a state prison. Probation can follow a Virginia Beach court sentence without a prior prison term. Someone released after a short local-jail stay with no state supervision may never appear in the VADOC system. Begin with the last known custody and sentence type, then use the office only when the record points to state community supervision.
District 23 is a supervision office, not a jail. It has no current-inmate roster or public release list.
Find District 23 Supervision Records
The official VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator covers more than prison custody. Its stated scope includes probationers and parolees supervised by district offices, people in VADOC institutions, people under VADOC authority in local or regional jails, institutional hospitals, and Community Corrections Alternative Program placements. Data is updated daily and may lag or contain errors.
Search with a seven-digit DOC ID when available. A name search requires at least the first three letters of the first name and the complete last name. Location, race, gender, and age-range filters can narrow similar names. The search requires acceptance of a disclaimer and a CAPTCHA.
- Open the VADOC locator and choose a DOC ID or name search.
- Enter the required name or identification fields and use optional filters only when needed.
- Complete the disclaimer and CAPTCHA, then compare the full result rather than relying on a name match.
- Read institution and community-supervision information separately.
- If District 23 is identified, call the office for routing or office verification.
- If no result appears after full discharge, use the VADOC records process instead of treating absence as proof.
The public landing page did not verify every result field because CAPTCHA blocked a stable detail-page audit. Do not assume that a result always shows a photograph, actual release date, or a field with a specific projected-release label. The locator is strongest for current VADOC custody or active supervision.
District 23 Supervision Contacts
VADOC’s official directory lists the Virginia Beach district office at 2520 Nimmo Parkway and gives 757-821-7575 as its phone number. The page named Rachel Gholston as chief on the research date. It displayed ZIP code 23546, which may be an agency-page error. Verify the full mailing address with the office before sending documents rather than silently changing the official listing.
VADOC District 23 Probation and Parole2520 Nimmo Parkway
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Phone: 757-821-7575
Verify ZIP and mailing directions before use
The VADOC facilities and offices directory is the current source for office details. The directory view captured for this project shows the District 23 listing and helps separate this supervision office from a prison or local jail.
The listing connects a Virginia Beach supervision result with the correct field office, but an office listing does not establish an individual’s release or discharge.
District 23 Parole and Probation
Parole and probation can both place a person under supervision in Virginia Beach, yet they arise in different ways. Parole is conditional release from a qualifying prison sentence before the sentence fully ends. Virginia’s Parole Board makes parole decisions in eligible cases, while VADOC officers supervise the person in the community. Probation is usually ordered by a court and may begin with a suspended sentence, after local confinement, or without a prison release.
| Status | How it begins | What District 23 does |
|---|---|---|
| Parole | Conditional release approved under eligible parole law | Administers local community supervision |
| Probation | Court order, often tied to a suspended sentence | Supervises court-ordered terms routed to VADOC |
| Discharge | End of the correctional sentence or supervision term | Maintains or routes the official record when applicable |
Virginia largely ended discretionary parole for felony offenses committed on or after January 1, 1995, but statutory exceptions remain. Offense date, sentence history, offense class, and special eligibility rules matter. A VADOC supervision result should not be used to guess whether the person was paroled or placed on probation. Confirm the status wording and the underlying court or Parole Board record.
District 23 Supervision Proof
A locator result showing community supervision confirms a current VADOC relationship outside an institution. It does not show that all sentence duties ended. It may also lack the detail needed to establish the actual date the person left Virginia Beach Correctional Center or a state prison. The releasing agency remains the better source for physical departure, while the court or Parole Board record supplies the legal authority.
When durable proof is needed, request existing records from the office or division that maintains them. Ask for custody and status history, actual release or discharge date, supervision start and end dates, and transfer information when relevant and releasable. VADOC’s Form 17 is titled “Request for Inactive Inmate or CCAP Probationer/Parolee Records” and is a useful reference after a person becomes inactive.
- Community supervision
- Correctional oversight while a person lives outside an institution.
- Parole
- Conditional release from an eligible prison sentence before full discharge.
- Probation
- Court-ordered supervision that may follow or replace part of confinement.
- Discharge
- The formal end of the correctional sentence or supervision term.
- Absconder
- A supervised person whose location remains unknown after reasonable officer efforts.
Request District 23 Records
The VADOC FOIA route accepts requests by email, mail, fax, telephone, or in person. A request must include the requester’s name and legal address. For records maintained by a supervision district, VADOC directs the request to the district chief. General help is available at FOIA@vadoc.virginia.gov or 804-963-2953. Mail can be sent to VADOC, PO Box 26963, Richmond, VA 23261.
Name the existing records and give enough identifiers to locate them: legal name, DOC ID, date of birth, supervision district, and a narrow date range. Ask for an estimate. Virginia FOIA uses a general five-working-day response framework, with written notice allowing seven more working days when needed. Actual search, review, copying, and delivery costs may be charged, and an estimate above $200 can support a deposit request.
VADOC may apply exemptions and need not create a new report. A request for “all information” is harder to process than a focused request for supervision status history and discharge records. For the underlying Virginia Beach court order, request the order from the correct court instead. For a local jail departure time, request the VBSO release transaction.
District 23 Supervision Limits
No comprehensive public statewide list of Virginia probation and parole absconders was verified. VADOC procedure defines an absconder as a probationer or parolee whose whereabouts remain unknown after reasonable efforts. An officer arrest warrant known as a PB-15 may be entered with law enforcement, but that process is not a complete public name locator.
A missing locator result does not prove absconding, release, or discharge. It may reflect a spelling issue, update lag, a fully inactive record, or a different supervising authority. An alleged violation also does not end supervision. Official warrant and court channels control legal status. District 23 can route office questions, while VADOC records can document the status maintained by the agency.
Note: VADOC’s public tools are status aids; they do not replace a court order, release transaction, or certified agency record.
Virginia Beach Reentry Programs
VBSO describes a three-month Reentry Program as well as Recovery and Veterans programming within its local reintegration work. Those programs help explain a local transition from custody, but enrollment or completion does not prove a release date. District 23 is a separate state-supervision route for people whose VADOC or court status sends them there.
Property and identification can also affect the first days after a local release. The VBSO rulebook says personal property is returned with a signed acknowledgment at release and describes a DMV ID Card Program for qualifying people. On transfer, property that cannot follow may be mailed to a supplied non-PO-box address. These local steps can occur near a custody change, yet the official release and supervision records remain the sources for status.
District 23 Is Not Custody
Virginia Beach has no separate VADOC state prison in the official directory reviewed. District 23 should not be presented as one. A person reporting there is in the community unless another custody record says otherwise. Virginia Beach Correctional Center remains the local jail, and state prisons belong to VADOC’s statewide institutional network.
The older USMS agreement for VBCC documents local holding of some federal and immigration-related detainees. That history does not expand District 23’s role. Federal release is checked through the court and BOP, while immigration detention uses ICE. The District 23 page in the facility map exists because it is a key destination after release, not because it confines people.
The broader Virginia Beach release-record search explains how to choose among VBSO, VADOC, BOP, ICE, VINE, and the courts. Starting with the correct custody type avoids treating community supervision as a jail release record.