Find ICE Detainee Releases

ICE Release Paths in Madison

ICE detention is federal civil immigration custody. It is not a Madison County criminal sentence, a local jail program, or TDCJ imprisonment. A person can leave Madison County Jail when the sheriff hands custody to ICE. The county vendor may then mark the booking RELEASED, even though detention continues under a different authority.

ICE describes a detainer as a request for advance notice and for a jail to maintain custody for up to 48 hours beyond the time the person would otherwise be released, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to assume custody. The county release sheet or movement history should show whether there was a community release or a transfer. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System then checks the receiving custody path.

Confirm an ICE Detainee Release

Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for a person actually placed in ICE custody. The strongest search uses the nine-digit A-number and country of birth. Add leading zeroes when the A-number has fewer digits. The biographical route requires the exact first and last name, country of birth, and optionally the birth date. Spelling, spaces, and hyphenation matter.

1. Obtain the county movement record and confirm that ICE received custody.
2. Search with the A-number and country of birth when possible.
3. If needed, use the exact biographical details shown in official records.
4. Compare identity data and do not rely on name alone.
5. Call the ICE information line when sound inputs return no result.
6. Keep the county and immigration release events as distinct dates.

ODLS covers current ICE custody and people released from ICE custody within the preceding 60 days, subject to update lag and exclusions. It is not a permanent historical archive. A no-result can reflect a recent transfer, input mismatch, safety or security restriction, age exclusion, or a record outside the display window. The Madison County release search provides the county-record step that must come first.

ICE Released Detainee Record Limits

The ICE locator is designed to locate covered detainees, not recreate a county booking. It will not show the Madison County charges, bond display, arresting agency, booking photograph, county release code, or local court. Those items remain with the sheriff and clerk. Likewise, a sheriff roster result does not supply the A-number, current ICE location, immigration release event, or later federal status.

A-number

The immigration registration identifier used with country of birth in the locator.

Detainer

A request that can support a custody handoff after local release would otherwise occur.

Community release

An end to the holding custody without transfer to another detention authority.

Custody transfer

A change in the agency holding the person, not release from confinement as a whole.

ICE's 60-day released-person scope is short. For an older event, obtain the county movement record and request appropriate records from the federal custodian. Keep an access date with any locator result. Live data can change, and absence after the display period does not prove that the transfer or detention never occurred.

ICE Detainee Release Contacts

The reviewed official sources did not establish an ICE detention facility in Madison County, so no local detention address should be invented. Use ICE's national locator and Detention Reporting and Information Line for the federal status. Use Madison County Jail for the local end time, release code, and destination. Each office should be asked only for the record it controls.

The sheriff's Open Records Request form can be used to request the actual date and time county custody ended, release disposition, transfer destination, receiving agency, and supporting movement entries. Add the person's full name, booking or arrest date, and case or warrant number when known. Ask for reasonably separable public portions if another field is withheld.

Madison County ICE Handoffs

The local roster's released label must be read at the booking level. It means the Madison County vendor no longer classifies that booking as active. It does not distinguish a bond-out from an immigration handoff. Nor does it identify when ICE accepted custody. That distinction matters when arranging contact, travel, or document requests.

Start with Inmates by Arrest Date when the arrest date is known. The page can retain released bookings and the arresting agency, charge, court, warrant, and bond fields. Then call the jail and request the movement record. Only after ICE appears as the recipient does ODLS become the correct locator.

ICE Release Search Gaps

Exact spelling can determine whether a biographical search succeeds. Try the official form of the first and last name and confirm country of birth. If an A-number is available, verify every digit and left-pad it with zeroes as instructed. Repeated speculative searches are less useful than checking the source document or calling ICE with accurate identifiers.

Some people do not appear because the locator excludes persons under 18 and can restrict records for safety or security reasons. Recent transfers can lag. A person released more than 60 days earlier may fall outside the described recent-release scope. These limits mean that a blank result is inconclusive, not proof of release, removal, or lack of ICE custody.

For a federal criminal case instead of civil immigration detention, use the U.S. Marshals Service and federal court record. For a sentenced federal prisoner, use BOP. For TDCJ imprisonment, use the state offender system. The custody type selects the locator.

ICE and County Release Records

A complete county request should ask for the booking-out or release sheet, movement history, actual custody end time, release authority, release code, destination, receiving agency, and related hold or detainer documentation that is public. The responsible office may withhold confidential or protected material, but it should address separable public parts under the Texas Public Information Act.

The court record adds the criminal case outcome. A dismissal or bond order can explain why local criminal custody would otherwise end, yet it does not show whether an immigration transfer followed. Conversely, an ICE locator hit says nothing about the final disposition of the Madison County criminal case. Use both sources when both systems touched the same person.

Note: No reviewed official source established a Madison County ICE facility or detention contract, so the receiving location must come from the actual record.