Alexander County 24-Hour Releases
No official Pulaski or Alexander rolling 24-hour release list was verified as of July 16, 2026. There is no defensible feed URL, fixed update schedule, public retention period, set of displayed fields, photo promise, or sheriff app to cite. The public Pulaski roster is a current-custody view. It answers who remains displayed, not who left the facility today. Treating names that vanish from it as a release list would confuse transfer, correction, suppression, and community release.
Alexander County detainees are commonly held at Pulaski County Detention Center in Ullin under a contract documented by IDOC. That split matters. Pulaski creates the physical booking and exit entry, while the Alexander Circuit Court in Cairo holds the order or disposition that explains the legal basis. A useful same-day result joins both records. A jail timestamp alone may show departure without showing whether the destination was home, IDOC, another county, or federal custody.
Check Alexander County Same-Day Records
Because no public feed exists, define the interval before contacting the record custodian. A calendar-day request is not the same as a rolling 24-hour request made at midmorning. Give the start and end date, the exact times, and the Central Time zone. Ask for existing release-log entries rather than asking staff to create a new list or decide who is now free.
- Write the exact 24-hour interval, including both endpoints and the time zone.
- Send Pulaski County Detention Center a focused FOIA request for existing release or transfer entries in that span.
- Ask for releasable name, booking identifier, release date and time, recorded authority or reason, and destination or receiving agency.
- Match an Alexander County case through the Circuit Clerk and read the newest bond, dismissal, sentence, mittimus, or other custody order.
- For one person, check Illinois VINE and then IDOC, BOP, or the federal docket when the record points to another system.
The Pulaski FOIA instructions accept mail, email, fax, or hand delivery as described by the agency. Send email to gjones@pulaskicountyil.gov, mail the FOIA Officer at 20 Justice Drive, Ullin, IL 62992, or use fax 618-845-3533. Include a mailing or email address. Charges may apply, so ask for an estimate and electronic delivery.
Alexander Release Fields to Request
No online field set can be promised. The 2024 Pulaski inspection and the local record inventory do support asking for existing fields that document the end of a booking episode. Some data may be redacted or withheld under Illinois law. Requesting precise fields keeps the search tied to records the jail may already maintain.
| Field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Booked name and booking number | Connects the exit to the right custody episode. |
| Release date and time | Places the recorded event inside or outside the chosen 24-hour span. |
| Release authority or reason | May identify bond, time served, court order, dismissal, or another basis. |
| Disposition or destination | Separates community release from transfer to IDOC, USMS, another county, or another custodian. |
| Movement history | Shows changes that a latest-status screen can hide. |
| Property receipt | Can document inventory and return of property at the exit. |
The official Pulaski detention center page identifies the serving facility and its mixed contract population. The linked page does not advertise a recent-release tab. That is why its contact and records route, not a copied roster, is the sound starting point.
The captured facility page confirms where many Alexander custody exits occur, which helps direct a same-day request to the office that created the physical release entry.
Alexander County Release Fallbacks
A records request is the lead channel, but it is not the only check. Search the Alexander court case for the order that may have caused the custody change. Then search Illinois VINE for the named person and source agency. VINE can report release, transfer, or escape alerts when the source system participates, yet it depends on agency feeds and may lag. Save the event date and agency rather than relying on a bare status label.
If Pulaski records show delivery to IDOC, use the official IDOC search. Read Offender Status, Location, Last Paroled Date, Projected Parole Date, and Projected Discharge Date together. A transfer out of Pulaski is not release from incarceration. For a U.S. Marshals detainee, use the federal court docket; use BOP only if a sentenced-federal record exists. The wider Released Last 72 Hours process can help when the likely event crossed more than one calendar day.
Alexander Release or Transfer
Release from a building and release to the community are different facts. Bond or pretrial release generally means the person left jail while the case remained open. Time served or sentence completion may close a county sentence. A dismissal addresses the case, but another hold can still delay departure. A mittimus is a court order committing the person to custody, often IDOC. It supports transfer, not freedom.
- Community release
- The record shows the person left custody without a transfer destination, subject to any court or supervision terms.
- Transfer
- One facility ends its custody while another agency or facility receives the person.
- Discharge
- The sentence or supervision ends. It can occur later than the prison gate release.
- Detainer
- A request or legal basis for another authority to take custody.
Someone still displayed on the current Pulaski roster remains shown in that source at the time checked. Someone absent may have left, transferred, or been removed for another reason. For a named-person search across all systems, use the Alexander County released inmates search path.
Getting Home After Alexander Release
A release in Ullin can create a county-line travel problem for a person whose case, family, or services are in Cairo or elsewhere in Alexander County. Shawnee Community College publishes regional transportation linking Cairo, Mound City, Pulaski, Ullin, Tamms, and Thebes. It is not a jail discharge service, and the published route does not promise a ride at release.
Check eligibility, stop location, and the current schedule directly through the regional transportation schedule. Release staff should not be assumed to arrange the trip. The source is useful only as local travel context after an independently confirmed community release.
Why Alexander Release Data Splits
The Alexander case survives in Cairo while the physical booking record is commonly held in Pulaski County. The Alexander Circuit Clerk route can show the order and disposition after a roster changes. The Pulaski movement record supplies the actual exit time and destination. Those records may bear different timestamps without either being wrong because staff must complete identity, hold, property, and discharge steps after a judge acts.
Record both times and identify each source. If they conflict, ask the agency that created each entry to explain it. Do not silently choose the earlier date or the result that best fits an expected story.
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