Search Clarke County Released Inmates

Clarke County Released Inmates

A Clarke County release is a custody event, not a single web listing. The local adult facility is the Clarke County Jail, operated by the Clarke County Sheriff's Department. A person may leave that jail after bond, a court order, time served, dismissal, probation processing, transfer to the Alabama Department of Corrections, transfer to another local agency, federal pickup, or an immigration handoff. Each path points to a different record source.

The official county page gives direct jail and sheriff contact information, but the local sweep did not find an official online adult jail roster, public recent-release feed, 24-hour release page, 72-hour release page, or booking-photo gallery. That makes Clarke County a contact-and-court-record county. The release record normally starts with the jail, then the case record explains the legal reason for the custody change.

Clarke County Release Types

The release reason is the field that gives the event meaning. Bond means the person left jail while the court case continues. Time served means the jail portion of the sentence or jail credit has been satisfied. A court order, dismissal, or sentence order ties the release to the judge or case docket. Transfer language matters because the person may be out of Clarke County Jail but still in custody elsewhere.

For Clarke County released inmates, the safest language is specific: released from the county jail, discharged from ADOC, released to parole, placed on probation, or transferred. Those phrases are not interchangeable.

Clarke County Release Record Fields

A Clarke County release record should be requested as a booking and release entry or jail log extract when no public web record is posted. The sheriff page does not publish the exact fields online, so the request should ask for fields if maintained rather than claim they are always shown. The court record then supplies the case status, orders, sentence, dismissal, bond terms, probation order, or later warrant activity.

Request Clarke County Release Records

No online sheriff public-records form was found in the local sweep. For a recent jail release, start with the jail or sheriff contact, then submit a written request if staff direct you to do so. Alabama public-records access starts with Ala. Code Section 36-12-40, subject to exceptions and agency procedures.

1. Call the Clarke County Jail if the question is urgent and ask whether the person is currently in custody or has been released.
2. Ask for the correct records contact or public-records submission method for a booking and release record.
3. Provide the full name, date of birth if known, booking date range, and any case or booking number.
4. Ask for release date, release reason, transfer information, and public booking photo if maintained and releasable.
5. If the answer shows transfer, follow the receiving agency route instead of treating the county release as a final discharge.

The Clarke County Circuit Clerk is the official record keeper for District and Circuit Court proceedings, including Criminal, Traffic, Juvenile, and Warrants divisions. Most trial-court information may be obtained through alacourt.gov and Just One Look, subject to required fees. A jail release entry answers custody status; the case record explains the order or disposition behind it.

Clarke County Record Limits

Alabama law gives residents a public-records access path, but not every release-related record is open to every requester. Juvenile records, Youthful Offender Act records, sealed records, expunged records, medical details, security-sensitive material, and some law-enforcement information may be restricted. ADOC also has its own written public-records policy and uses Form 23-A with processing fee and prepayment rules for state prison records.

Expungement can affect what the public sees. Alabama's CR-65 petition cites Section 15-27-1 et seq. and requires certified local or court records plus a certified ALEA criminal record. It also warns that records held by offices not listed or served may not be fully addressed. For a Clarke County release, that matters because jail, court, ALEA, ADOC, and federal systems can each hold a different piece of the record trail.

Discharge

A custody or supervision status ending under the controlling agency's record.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may keep custody moving after a jail release.

Expungement

A court process that may limit public access to records when Alabama law allows it.

Time served

Credit or custody time that satisfies the jail or sentence portion at issue.

Clarke County Court Release Context

Clarke County's court record is unusually central because no official recent-release feed was found. The Circuit Clerk page states that the clerk is the official record keeper and business manager for District and Circuit Court proceedings, and that records are divided into divisions such as Criminal, Traffic, Juvenile, and Warrants. A jail call may answer whether a person left custody, but the docket explains bond, sentence, dismissal, probation, warrant, and case closure.

The Clarke County court site lists the courthouse at 114 Court Street in Grove Hill and provides public-facing court-record routes through Alabama's court system. If a release was caused by a court order, bond event, sentence, split sentence, dismissal, or warrant clearance, the court record should be checked after the jail record. That prevents a common mistake: treating a jail release as the final legal outcome.

Note: A jail release date and a court disposition date may be different records with different meanings.

Find Released Clarke County Inmates

The best search path is custody-type based. Clarke County does not provide a public recent-release screen, so a person-specific check starts with the local jail and expands only when the answer points outside county custody. For the same-day feed intent, use the 24-Hour Releases page. For the full release record and named-person confirmation, use this custody chain.

1. Start with Clarke County Jail for a recent local arrest, bond, county sentence, or court-linked release.
2. Check the Circuit Clerk or Alacourt when the release came from bond, dismissal, sentence, warrant, or court order.
3. Use ADOC if jail staff or court records show state-prison transfer or an Alabama prison sentence.
4. Use ABPP when the person may be on parole, probation, mandatory supervision, delinquent status, or absconder status.
5. Use Alabama VINE or VNS for notification and status monitoring when the system covers the custody type.
6. Use BOP, federal court, USMS, or ICE when a county release is really a federal or immigration transfer.

This order matters because a released person usually drops off any current custody list. ADOC is strong for current state prison custody and projected date work, but it is not an online historical archive of all people who already discharged from state prison.

ADOC Search for Clarke Releases

Use the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search when a Clarke County case moved from the jail to state prison or when a state prisoner connected to Clarke County is still incarcerated. ADOC states that its public database contains currently incarcerated inmates and that historical data is not available online. That limit should be read first, because a discharged state prisoner may not appear in the public current-inmate search.

The screenshot below comes from the ADOC inmate search source used for Clarke County release-date research.

The page is useful when the person remains in ADOC custody, but a no-result answer must be checked against jail, court, ADOC records, and supervision sources.

Clarke County Recent Releases

For Clarke County released inmates, the absence of an official release feed is a fact to use, not a gap to fill with guesswork. The sheriff page lists the Sheriff's Department, jail address, phone numbers, PREA materials, and agency narrative. It does not link a public adult inmate search, current custody roster, recent releases, release-date filter, booking-photo feed, or verified sheriff mobile inmate-search app.

That means the recent-release workflow is direct and narrow: ask the jail for a specific person and date range, then verify the court record. Same-day release processing can lag. A weekend or holiday can also make a wider window more useful. The 72-Hour Releases page focuses on that broader recent-release check.

Clarke County Post-Release Supervision

The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles is the post-release supervision route for parole, probation, mandatory supervision, hearing calendars, parole results, forms, public-records requests, and absconder alerts. Clarke County is served by the Grove Hill Field Office, located in the Clarke County Court House, Suite 302, at 114 Court Street in Grove Hill.

Supervision can explain why someone is out of jail but still has reporting duties, conditions, or a delinquency issue. ABPP's parole FAQ says parole eligibility is calculated under Ala. Code Section 15-22-28(e), and that sentence, crime, jail credit, good time, time served, and court orders may affect eligibility. A parole result is not always the physical release date because ABPP verifies the home plan and coordinates with ADOC.

Note: Mandatory supervision is a supervised release status for eligible Alabama offenses, not a full unsupervised discharge.

Clarke County Release Notifications

Alabama has both VINELink and the Alabama Victim Notification System. That split matters in Clarke County. The Alabama VNS page states that it is only for offenders convicted in Alabama and sentenced to prison in ADOC custody. It directs pretrial or not-yet-tried matters to the sheriff in the county where the crime occurred. For a bond release from Clarke County Jail, use the jail and court record first.

The VNS FAQ lists events such as parole or pardon hearings, medical release, furlough or leave, release from ADOC custody for mandatory supervision, custody or status changes, end of sentence, and death. For federal releases, use the BOP Inmate Locator. For immigration custody, use the ICE locator route. Neither system replaces the county jail release record.

Clarke Release Lookup Choices

Released and still-in-custody records live in different places. Clarke County has no verified public adult roster to check first, so the most useful comparison is by question and custody system.

Clarke County Jail Context

The official sheriff page gives one concrete local facility detail: the Clarke County Jail accommodates up to 200 inmates. It also says the Sheriff's Department maintains security at the Clarke County Courthouse. That court-and-jail connection is useful for release research in Grove Hill because arrest, bond, warrant, sentence, probation, and release questions can move between the jail and courthouse records.

The screenshot below comes from the official Clarke County Sheriff's Department page used for the local jail and release-record context.

Use the county page for jail and sheriff contact facts, then use the court and state systems only when the release path points beyond local jail custody.

Clarke County Detention Facilities

The facility map has one adult county jail and two youth-system entries. The juvenile pages are included to prevent misrouting, not to create an adult public release search. Youth custody and youth release information are handled through juvenile court, authorized family or counsel channels, DYS, and juvenile authorities.