Search Alexander County Released Inmates

Alexander County Release Records

Many Alexander detainees are physically held at Pulaski County Detention Center in Ullin. Pulaski records the booking exit, while the Alexander Circuit Court in Cairo records the order or disposition. A person who leaves the current roster may have bonded out, completed time, been dismissed, transferred to IDOC, moved to another county, or remained in federal custody. Roster absence alone proves none of those outcomes.

“Release” names the end of one custody episode. It does not always mean freedom. Bond or pretrial release leaves a case pending. Time served concerns a jail sentence. A transfer ends Pulaski custody while another custodian takes control. Parole or mandatory supervised release can begin after prison, while discharge means the sentence or supervision has ended.

How Alexander County Releases Work

The recorded reason determines the next search. Quote it instead of guessing from a blank roster.

What Alexander Release Records Show

Ask for the existing release screen, booking sheet, and movement history. Useful fields include booked identity, booking number, arresting agency, booking time, charges, bond or hold, exit date and time, authority or reason, and destination.

Request Alexander County Release Records

Send the request to the creator. Pulaski holds the physical jail exit; Alexander Sheriff holds arrest or transport records; the Circuit Clerk holds the court act; IDOC holds state release records.

1. Give the full name, date range, and booking or case number.
2. Request the booking sheet, movement history, release entry, authority, destination, and releasable photo.
3. Ask for electronic copies and segregable nonexempt portions.
4. Request the statutory basis for each redaction or denial.

Pulaski accepts requests at gjones@pulaskicountyil.gov, by fax at 618-845-3533, or by mail to its FOIA Officer, 20 Justice Drive, Ullin, IL 62992. Illinois FOIA generally allows five business days for a noncommercial-request response, subject to extensions and exemptions. That is not a promise of production. Confirm any fee before ordering.

Alexander County Release Record Laws

Illinois FOIA, 5 ILCS 140, supplies the request framework, while exemptions protect qualifying private, medical, security, juvenile, and investigatory material. No fixed public retention period for the Pulaski roster or an IDOC profile was verified. 20 ILCS 2630/5.2 governs sealing and expungement. A missing public result may reflect those rules and cannot prove no prior custody.

Find Released Alexander County Inmates

Start with the Alexander case and Pulaski booking, not a conclusion drawn from roster absence.

1. Search the Circuit Clerk route for the newest bond, dismissal, sentence, mittimus, or custody order.
2. Ask Pulaski whether the person left, when, and whether the event was release or transfer.
3. Search Illinois VINE for the person and source agency.
4. Follow an IDOC, federal, ICE, or county destination in the matching system.
5. Request records when the public interface is incomplete.

IDOC Search for Released Inmates

The IDOC Individual in Custody Search applies when an Alexander case led to state commitment. Search by last name, IDOC number, or birthdate, then match date of birth and sentencing county.

A county-only booking may never appear in IDOC. A transfer to IDOC is not community release.

Alexander County Recent Releases

No verified official Alexander or Pulaski 24-hour or 72-hour released feed, sheriff app, cadence, photo field, or retention window was found. Request an exact interval from Pulaski instead. The Released Last 24 Hours page gives the same-day request method; a three-day request can span a weekend.

Parole and Probation After Release

Probation follows a court order and is handled through the Alexander County probation office. Parole or mandatory supervised release follows state prison and is handled through IDOC, with the Prisoner Review Board deciding designated matters. A past prison exit can coexist with a future discharge date. Verify the system before contacting an office.

Release Notifications and Federal Releases

Illinois VINE can search a named person and provide release, transfer, or escape alerts when the source participates. Preserve the agency and event date. For sentenced federal custody, BOP results show a release date and status. A past date with RELEASED means the person left BOP custody, not all supervision. Federal pretrial cases require the docket because USMS has no public person locator. ICE ODLS is relevant only on independent immigration facts; no current Pulaski ICE contract was verified.

Released vs Still in Custody: Where to Look

Choose the system that created the event.

Alexander County Custody Facilities

The custody map includes Pulaski County Detention Center, Alexander County Sheriff’s Office, closed Tamms Correctional Center, statewide IDOC facilities, federal contract custody at Pulaski, and historical ICE contract custody. Each route has a different record creator and next search.

Pulaski is the primary physical jail for many Alexander cases. Its release record should state the accomplished date and time, authority, and destination. The Alexander Sheriff is the arresting and transport office, not the currently documented jail building. It can identify where a detainee was sent and route a request for its own arrest or movement records. The Circuit Clerk then supplies the court basis for bond, dismissal, sentence, probation, or commitment.

A state commitment can place an Alexander County person at any IDOC facility. Search statewide rather than assuming a prison in the county. Tamms is historical and closed. Federal contract custody in the Pulaski building follows the federal docket, U.S. Marshals, and BOP path as appropriate. Historical ICE custody must stay date-labeled because the old agreement is not proof of a current contract or a current person's destination.

When agencies disagree, ask each to search the booking number, case number, date range, and alternate spelling. Request the movement audit instead of only the latest status. A Pulaski transfer-out time and an IDOC admission time may describe one consistent chain. If the release entry has no destination and the court order supports release, ask whether any other hold delayed the final exit.

Getting Home After Alexander Release

Regional transportation links Cairo, Mound City, Pulaski, Ullin, Tamms, and Thebes, but the published Shawnee Community College schedule is not a jail discharge service. Confirm eligibility, stops, and times directly. An Ullin exit can still create a county-line trip for a person returning to Alexander County.

Do not infer a promised ride from the route map. The person or family should verify whether the service is open to them, where the nearest stop is, whether the schedule is current, and whether the release time allows a connection. The local point is geographic: the Alexander case may be based in Cairo while the release door is across the county line in Ullin.

Property records may matter after the exit. The Pulaski inspection addresses itemized receipts, inventory and return of belongings, written authorization for release to a third party, and delivery of property to IDOC when that is the disposition. A person with a specific property dispute can request the signed receipt and any third-party authorization. Medical and other protected information should remain outside a public request unless the requester has a lawful access route.

The inspection also addresses identity checks, physical inspection, release authority, injury notation, search, and medication or aftercare steps in described circumstances. These requirements help explain why a court order time and physical exit time may differ. They support requests for named existing record elements, but they do not guarantee that every field is open to the public.

Alexander Parole Scale

IDOC's FY25 fact sheet counted nine parolees whose county of residence was Alexander, or 0.07% of the statewide population reported there. This dated aggregate cannot locate a person and does not count probationers. It only gives sourced local scale.

Alexander Court and Release Times

Alexander belongs to the First Judicial Circuit. A court order and physical exit can occur at different times, so pair the Circuit Clerk disposition with Pulaski's release entry. Quote both timestamps instead of treating a gap as an error. A bond order authorizes release after its conditions are met, but it does not prove staff completed discharge at the instant the judge signed. A dismissal ends the listed charge, yet an unrelated hold can remain. A mittimus to IDOC supports transfer into state custody rather than return to the community.

The Circuit Clerk's official request form asks for a case number, the document title or date, a delivery method, and whether certification is needed. Useful targets include the docket sheet, bond or pretrial order, dismissal entry, sentencing order, mittimus, amended mittimus, custody-credit order, probation order, and discharge order. Certification authenticates the court copy. It does not add a jail timestamp that the order never contained. When Pulaski and court times differ, preserve both and ask each creator to explain its own entry.

Alexander ICE Record Limits

Pulaski or Tri-County had a historical ICE agreement. Illinois TRUST Act §15(g) required covered civil-detention agreements terminated by 2022, and no current contract was verified. Use ICE ODLS only when independent facts point to immigration custody. ODLS accepts an A-number and country of birth, or exact biographical name data with country of birth. ICE states that the system includes adults now detained and people released from ICE custody within its limited recent window.

An ODLS release result means departure from ICE custody. It does not by itself identify return to an Illinois community, removal, voluntary departure, or transfer. Exact-match rules, processing delay, safety limits, and the exclusion of minors can also cause no result. Never infer an ICE transfer merely because someone disappeared from the Pulaski roster.

Tamms Release Records Today

Tamms Correctional Center closed in January 2013. It is not a current roster or release source. Search former prisoners through IDOC records and the statewide offender search. For a historical case, match the IDOC number, date of birth, committing county, and mittimus rather than calling a closed facility. The state master file may contain sentence-calculation sheets, sentence-credit actions, release checklists, notification of release date, parole packets, detainers, Prisoner Review Board notices, and the final release packet.

IDOC's public profile is a locator, not the whole file. A past Last Paroled Date may document a prison exit while Projected Discharge Date remains in the future. That combination means release from prison and full sentence discharge are different events. If the online labels are unclear, request the named underlying records from IDOC instead of calculating a date from the sentence alone.

Missing Alexander Release Results

Sealing or expungement can change public access and may require an agency to answer as though a record does not exist to an unauthorized requester. A blank search cannot be turned into “never booked” or “not released.” Juvenile or confidential treatment, a variant spelling, another custodian, an older federal record, ordinary interface lag, or a transfer can also explain a miss.

Document the source checked, the identifiers used, the date checked, and the access limit. For an older Alexander episode, begin with the court file and a focused Pulaski request rather than today's roster. Ask for the movement audit if the latest status is disputed. A transfer-out time at Pulaski and admission time at IDOC can form a consistent custody chain even when neither event represents community release.

Mixed Custody at Pulaski

The Pulaski facility houses Alexander and Union county contract detainees as well as U.S. Marshals prisoners. Leaving one building can feed county, state, or federal systems. Identify the authority and destination before describing the event. A federal pretrial defendant may leave under a federal court order without ever becoming a sentenced BOP prisoner. The U.S. Marshals Prisoner Tracking System is not a public locator, so the federal docket is the lead source for that path.

For a BOP record, read its labels narrowly. RELEASED with a past date supports that the person left BOP custody. IN TRANSIT is movement, not release. UNKNOWN means the term is not determined. A Community Corrections Management or regional-office location can have another custody meaning. Even a completed BOP release does not establish the end of all supervision or other custody.

Reconcile Alexander Release Evidence

A confirmed Alexander County community release should rest on more than one weak clue. The best local packet combines a Pulaski entry with an accomplished date and time, a disposition that does not name another custodian, and the Alexander court order or final disposition that authorized the exit. A matching VINE event can corroborate the timing. If only roster absence is available, the accurate statement is that the person was not displayed on the current list when checked.

When a Pulaski entry says transfer, name the receiving system and continue there. An IDOC admission turns a county-jail exit into a state-prison custody event. A U.S. Marshals movement requires the federal docket and custodian. An ICE result must be checked through ODLS on independent facts. Another county destination requires that county's records. The word “released” should always retain the source's scope, such as released from Pulaski custody or released from BOP custody.

IDOC results need the same care. Offender Status and Location show the current state position. Last Paroled Date is a past event when populated. Projected Parole Date remains an estimate, while Projected Discharge Date concerns the expected end of the sentence or supervision. A person may have left prison and still be on mandatory supervised release. If the result matters, request the release checklist, sentence calculation, credit records, detainer disposition, and final discharge notice.

Future dates can change. Presentence credit, consecutive or concurrent terms, an amended mittimus, earned credit, disciplinary credit loss, later restoration, recalculation, a detainer, or a court order may affect the date or destination. Illinois law includes offense-specific service categories and does not support one universal credit formula. Do not calculate from an arrest charge because the conviction offense and offense date control the applicable rule.

County cases require a different calculation. No public Pulaski-specific good-time policy was verified. Ask the jail and court for the actual commitment order, jail-credit calculation, and release authority. A projected state date is irrelevant to a person who received only a county sentence. Likewise, a court order entered on one date does not prove physical discharge occurred at that instant.

Records may be accurate yet incomplete for the question. Released on recognizance explains the exit mechanism but not whether another warrant caused new custody. Transferred to IDOC identifies a destination but not the later prison release. Sentence discharged at IDOC may occur after an earlier gate release onto supervision. Keep each event and time boundary clear.

For disputed events, use narrow requests. Pulaski can supply booking, release, and movement history. Alexander Sheriff can supply arrest and transport records. The Circuit Clerk can provide the docket and certified disposition. IDOC can reconcile its online labels with master-file records. Ask each agency to search the same name variants, booking or case number, and date range.

A request should seek existing records, not a new conclusion. Ask for the release screen, date and time, recorded authority, destination field, and movement audit. Accept lawful redaction of exempt parts. If an agency denies a field, ask it to identify the statutory basis and release reasonably segregable portions. This approach preserves privacy limits while still targeting the facts needed to distinguish release from transfer.