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Chesapeake Correctional Center Overview

Chesapeake Correctional Center, also listed in city materials as Chesapeake City Jail, is operated by the Chesapeake Sheriff's Office. The jail is part of the Civic Center public-safety cluster, with the Sheriff's Office, courts, magistrate, and jail functions nearby but legally separate. The facility handles the local jail stream: arrests before trial, short local sentences, court commitments, trustees, work-force and work-release references, and home-electronic-monitoring participants when approved.

The local jail role is important because two state prisons also sit in Chesapeake. A person newly arrested in the city usually starts with the Chesapeake Correctional Center roster. A sentenced person assigned to Indian Creek or St. Brides must be searched through the Virginia Department of Corrections. Chesapeake also has a U.S. Marshals Service intergovernmental agreement for local housing of some federal prisoners, so a federal defendant can appear in the local roster while the case itself remains federal.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Population

The strongest current capacity source in the research is the Virginia Board of Local and Regional Jails 2023 Jail Capacity Report. It lists Chesapeake City with a rated capacity of 747, along with 1,085 permanent beds, 286 temporary beds, 142 special-purpose beds, and an average daily population of 711.97 for July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The FY2024 Virginia Compensation Board Jail Cost Report gives a later LIDS average daily population of 648 and total capacity use of 87 percent.

Those figures are official population measures, not the same thing as a live roster count. The Tyler/New World current-custody query showed 625 current entries on July 1, 2026. That online count is useful for a search snapshot, but audited capacity and average daily population reports are the better source for facility population history.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Lookup

Use the official Tyler/New World Inmate Inquiry portal for Chesapeake Correctional Center inmates. The Sheriff's lookup page says the data is updated regularly, but it may not show true current location, release date, status, or a complete offender history. If the online result is missing or unclear, the jail information phone line and Sheriff's records request route are the next local channels.

1. Open the Chesapeake Inmate Lookup portal and confirm the page is for the Chesapeake Correctional Center roster.
2. Search by name, subject number, booking number, booking date range, or the current-custody checkbox.
3. Use the housing facility filter when needed, since the captured dropdown included Chesapeake Correctional Center.
4. Open the linked name to review demographics, photo, booking history, bond, court, and charge tables.
5. If the person is not listed, check whether they were released, transferred to VADOC, held by another locality, or in federal or immigration custody.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Contact

The jail information line is the practical fallback when a roster result has not posted, a release may have happened, or the public fields are not enough to confirm current custody. The Sheriff's Office also has a FOIA channel for inmate records held by the correctional center, past and present. For a full county roster walkthrough, use the Chesapeake City jail inmate records page.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Visitation

The Sheriff's visitation page identifies Securus as the current video visitation vendor. Inmates are allowed one 30-minute visit each week, while trustees are allowed two. Visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours before the appointment and can be scheduled up to one week in advance. Remote visits cost $15. All visitors must be on the approved visitation list, have valid picture ID, pass screening, and sign in at least one hour before the final visitation time. No one under age 12 is permitted.

The Sheriff's video visitation rules are the source for the schedule shown here.

The posted schedule separates public video visits from attorney access, so family-visit limits should not be applied to legal visits without checking current facility rules.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Mail

The Sheriff's inmate information page gives the jail mail, phone, commissary, and medical rules. Regular postal mail for Chesapeake Correctional Center goes through Securus DMC in Tampa and is scanned for tablet access. The inmate name and Securus ID must be printed clearly on the envelope or postcard. Legal mail, court documents, bank statements, packages, and approved publications continue to go directly to the facility, not to the Tampa mail processor. That split is one of the most important local rules for this jail.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Intake

Booking at Chesapeake Correctional Center creates the local subject and booking record used by the public roster. The sampled public profile showed a booking number, booking date, booking origin, total bond and bail fields, bond rows, court dates, court labels, courtroom codes, charge descriptions, offense dates, crime class, and arresting agency. The public roster did not show every internal field. Housing unit, cell, projected release date, full criminal history, and statute code were not visible in the sampled detail page.

The Sheriff's inmate-information page adds health and program context. Inmates are evaluated and screened when they enter Booking. The correctional center provides 24-hour professional health care through an on-site medical contractor, including admission physical screening, dental screening, mental-health screening, chronic-care continuation, STD testing, and TB screening. Medical care is not refused because an inmate lacks funds. Prescription medication brought at booking must be verified before it is dispensed.

Chesapeake Correctional Center Programs

Chesapeake Sheriff's materials list structured programs for eligible inmates, including general education, substance abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Nurture Block, GED, special education, chaplaincy, vocational skills, Faith & Finances, recreation, counseling, and work programs. Work Force, Work Release, and Home Electronic Monitoring are referenced in official or annual-report materials as local custody programs, not state-prison assignments.

Booking

The jail intake event after arrest, court commitment, sentence, transfer, or hold.

Subject number

The local jail-system identifier for a person in the Chesapeake roster.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that can affect release even when local bond is addressed.