Find Madison County Released Inmates

Madison County Release Records

Release from Madison County custody is an event, not a single status shared by every agency. At the county jail, release can mean bond, time served, a court order, dismissal, or transfer to another custodian. The public InteropWeb record may change to RELEASED, but that label only says the booking is no longer current in the vendor system. It does not say when custody ended, why it ended, or where the person went. Those facts belong in the sheriff's release sheet and movement history.

A TDCJ prison release is different. A person can leave institutional custody for parole or mandatory supervision yet still be serving a sentence. Full discharge ends the sentence and supervision. Federal and civil immigration custody have separate records again. The first task is to name the last custodian. That choice determines whether the useful source is the Madison County Sheriff, a court clerk, TDCJ, the Bureau of Prisons, ICE, or a supervision office.

Madison County Release Paths

The same word can describe freedom in the community or a handoff between agencies. Madison County released inmate records must be read with the charge, court, bond, warrant, and receiving-agency fields. A disappearance from the current roster cannot answer that question by itself.

Note: A RELEASED vendor flag confirms the local booking is inactive, not that the person entered the community.

Inside Madison County Release Records

InteropWeb publishes useful booking facts but omits the core release event. Its observed fields include a photograph, name, status, physical descriptors, arrest date, arresting agency, days in jail, bond display, warrant number, counts, statute, charge, offense level, and court. It does not display a release date or time, authority, reason, destination, transfer agency, or booking number. Do not calculate a release time from the days-in-jail value.

The court file answers another part of the story. A judgment, dismissal, bond order, or sentence may explain legal authority but often lacks the physical booking-out time. Pair it with the sheriff record.

The observed status line deserves special care. CURRENTLY BOOKED reports the vendor's classification when the page rendered. RELEASED reports that the same booking is no longer classified as current. Neither word supplies a signed legal finding. The arresting-agency line may name Madisonville Police Department, but that name identifies who made or delivered the arrest. It does not create a separate police release archive. After booking at Madison County Jail, the sheriff's custody record remains the local source for the end of detention.

Charges and bond values are also context, not release proof. A displayed bond can exist before surety or money is accepted and before another hold clears. A charge may continue after a person leaves jail. Conversely, a dismissal or acquittal may provide authority to release without showing when jail staff finished processing. For a reliable timeline, join the release sheet to the court order, bond return, and receiving-agency record that apply to that one booking.

Request Madison County Release Records

The Madison County Sheriff's Office page links its Open Records Request form. The form and current page show different sheriff and jail addresses, so call 936-348-2755 before mailing. Ask for existing records, not an explanation staff would have to create.

1. Give the full name and approximate arrest date. Add a case, warrant, or booking number when known.
2. Request the booking and release sheets, movement history, actual release date and time, reason, authority, destination, and bond record when relevant.
3. Ask for native electronic files and reasonably segregable nonconfidential parts if material is withheld.
4. Request an itemized estimate. No fixed local fee was found.
5. Keep the completion notice. Finished results are held for ten business days after notice.

Texas Government Code Chapter 552 requires prompt production. Ten business days is not an automatic wait. If production will take longer, Section 552.221(d) calls for written certification and a reasonable production date. A governmental body's deadline to seek an Attorney General withholding decision is a separate rule.

The jail register under Local Schedule PS4200-06 is permanent and includes release or transfer date. Booking-in and booking-out packets and release or transfer orders under PS4200-10 have a minimum retention of release or transfer plus two years. Portal visibility is not official retention.

A well-scoped request should use the identifiers already visible in the public booking result. Name the approximate arrest date, arresting agency, warrant or cause number, charge, and court. Date of birth should be supplied only when needed to distinguish people and through an appropriate channel. Ask the records officer to segregate and release the non-exempt parts if another portion is confidential. This wording lets the office search for an existing record and avoids asking staff to calculate or interpret an event.

Copy costs must follow Texas rules. Government Code Section 552.261 permits reasonable reproduction charges. For 50 or fewer standard paper pages, the general rule limits a charge to per-page reproduction rather than labor and overhead, subject to listed exceptions such as remote storage. Native electronic delivery may reduce work and preserve the source format. The OAG Cost Hotline is 888-672-6787, while the Open Government Hotline at 877-673-6839 addresses process questions.

Madison County Release Record Law

Texas Government Code Chapter 552 governs access to existing public records. Basic arrest facts and permanent jail-register data are commonly accessible, but no rule makes every field public in every case. Active investigative material, juvenile records, sealed or expunged records, medical data, protected identifiers, and security-sensitive information may be withheld. Section 552.108(c) preserves access to basic arrest and offense information even when other law-enforcement material qualifies for an exception.

Expunction is now governed by Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A. Eligibility depends on the case. Nondisclosure limits public dissemination but is not the same as expunction, which can require covered records to be removed or destroyed under an order. A missing old booking may reflect lawful record treatment, incomplete portal coverage, or retention. It proves none of those possibilities alone.

Section 552.108 can protect law-enforcement information when release would interfere with an active case. Other provisions govern confidential criminal-history compilations, juvenile files, medical facts, and protected personal identifiers. The correct response to a partial denial is to ask for the specific statutory basis and for all reasonably segregable public portions. The fact that an online photograph or charge once appeared does not guarantee that the agency must release every related file later.

Texas Business & Commerce Code Chapter 109 governs certain businesses that publish criminal-record information obtained through public sources. It requires covered publishers to use current government sources and provides a no-charge dispute process for inaccurate or incomplete data. It is not a blanket ban on publication. The best correction sequence begins with the sheriff or court record. Once the authoritative source is correct, its documentation can support a dispute with a covered publisher.

Correct Madison County Release Details

Madison County publishes no special correction form for a wrong jail release field. Send the sheriff a written request and attach the authoritative release sheet, order, or judgment showing the error. State which field should change. A clerk can address a court disposition while the sheriff remains responsible for the custody event in its own file.

Release can also leave a person without identification. The Texas DPS replacement process permits an online replacement only with the license or ID number, birth date, last four Social Security digits, and audit number from the latest card. Otherwise, an office appointment is required. DPS lists an $11 duplicate fee.

Find Madison County Released Inmates

A released-person search should begin with the known arrest or custody event. Names can match more than one person. Use the full name, approximate arrest date, agency, court, and a case, warrant, SID, TDCJ, BOP, or A-number when available.

1. Search Inmates by Arrest Date near the local booking date. Its controls filter arrests, not releases.
2. Read RELEASED and CURRENTLY BOOKED literally, and save the access time.
3. Check 24 Hours Arrests only for a booking made in the last day. It is not a release-time list.
4. Call the jail for a point-in-time custody check, then request the release sheet for the completed event.
5. If the movement was to TDCJ, BOP, ICE, USMS, or another county, continue with that system.
6. Use the right clerk for disposition and a supervision office when parole or probation follows.

The official arrest-date search shows the controls and released status used in this path.

The view demonstrates why the arrest date cannot be treated as the missing release date.

If the arrest-date record is found, save only the facts needed to continue: the status, arrest date, agency, court, warrant or cause identifier, charge, and bond display. Do not infer destination from a charge label. A parole warrant, out-of-county warrant, or other hold can mean that local release led directly to another custodian. The sheriff's movement history is the bridge between the county record and that next system.

If no local result appears, avoid treating the blank result as a final answer. The spelling may differ, the booking may fall outside the selected arrest range, the vendor archive may be incomplete, or a legal order may affect visibility. Search the proper court docket next. Then check TDCJ, BOP, or ICE only when the facts support that custody type. The final fallback is a focused request for the permanent jail-register entry and any retained booking-out packet.

Madison County TDCJ Release Search

The TDCJ Online Inmate Search covers only people currently incarcerated in a TDCJ facility. It is regenerated on working days and is at least 24 hours old. Search by the seven-digit TDCJ number or Texas SID number when possible. With a name, use the exact last name and at least a first initial, then compare age, offense, and sentence data.

A released person stops appearing in this live search. Use pia@tdcj.texas.gov, Classification and Records, Parole Division, or the sentencing clerk for history and discharge information. TDCJ does not cover a person whose only custody was Madison County Jail.

TDCJ terminology separates stages that are often confused. A parole eligibility date is the earliest point at which discretionary review may become possible. A projected release date is a calculation based on the sentence, credits, and governing release law. A scheduled release date, type, and location can appear later after approval, prerequisites, and an audit. A next-review date belongs to Board workflow. None should be relabeled as the completed release date.

For the email fallback, TDCJ asks for the full name and seven-digit TDCJ number. If that number is unknown, exact birth date or approximate age and county of conviction can help. General inmate information is available at 936-295-6371 or 800-535-0283. BPP review status before a vote uses 844-512-0461, while Review and Release Processing at 512-406-5202 is more useful after a favorable vote. These state routes do not answer a county-only booking.

Madison County Recent Release Search

Madison County publishes no true recent-release feed. Current Inmates shows active bookings only. The 24 Hours Arrests page is a booking cohort that may include rapid releases. Inmates by Arrest Date can return both statuses for a chosen arrest range. A person booked earlier and released today may therefore be absent from the 24-hour page.

The vendor states no refresh promise, timestamp, or retention cutoff. An impossible arrest year of 2998 was observed during research, showing why a live field should be checked against the sheriff and court record. No verified inmate-release feature was found in the county mobile app description. For an older event or no-result, request the permanent jail-register entry and release packet.

The 24-hour and three-day methods answer booking questions, not true release-window questions. The first can show a person booked during the past day whose status already changed to released. The second is created by setting the arrest-date controls across three relevant dates. It can include a current inmate, someone released earlier, and someone whose release happened in the period. It can also miss a person booked before the chosen dates but released during them. The status still needs a release sheet.

Photos remain visible in some released arrest-date results, along with charge and bond data. That persistence proves only that the vendor still serves that booking record. It does not establish an archive cutoff or the completeness of older results. A native booking photograph may be requested with the booking and release records, subject to case-specific Public Information Act exceptions.

Madison County Release Supervision

Parole and mandatory supervision follow a TDCJ prison sentence. The Board of Pardons and Paroles decides release and revocation matters, while the TDCJ Parole Division supervises the person. Madison County is ordinarily mapped to the Huntsville District Parole Office at 600 Interstate Highway 45 North, Huntsville, 936-295-5217, though an individual may be assigned elsewhere.

Probation is court-ordered community supervision. The Madison County CSCD office is at 101 West Main in Madisonville, 936-348-2641. Verify probation through the judgment and CSCD, then use a discharge order as durable proof that it ended. A blue warrant can return a parolee to custody, and a county booking later marked released may represent transfer into TDCJ handling.

The agencies also publish different proof. Parole Division public-information policy contemplates release dates, discharge dates, supervision status, supervising-officer information, and warrant facts, subject to applicable limits. For probation, the court's community-supervision order establishes the legal term and the CSCD confirms the current assignment. Absence from a local absconder list does not prove supervision ended, just as absence from a jail roster does not prove there is no warrant.

Madison County, Grimes, Leon, and Walker Counties share the judicial-district CSCD. Its general hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday, but callers should confirm branch availability. The shared department also publishes a probation-absconder tip line. That channel concerns a community-supervision problem and is neither a complete custody list nor a TDCJ parole list.

Madison County Release Alerts

Texas replaced county VINE with Texas IVSS-Counties on September 1, 2025. It can support notices for booking, release, transfer, escape, death, and participating court events. Public sources did not conclusively establish Madison County's live feed, so verify the person or agency in the portal or call 866-268-8959. TDCJ prison and parole notifications use TDCJ Victim Services separately.

The BOP locator can retain former federal prisoners and display a release date or RELEASED location. ICE's locator covers current custody and releases within the preceding 60 days, subject to lag and exclusions. An ICE detainer can make the county record say released while ICE custody starts. Request the movement destination before choosing the federal locator.

The DPS registry applies only to a person with a Chapter 62 registration duty. It is not a general Madison County release list.

BOP supports searches by BOP, FBI, INS, or DCDC number, or by exact name with age, race, and sex. A past release date with no institution, or a location of RELEASED, means the person is no longer in BOP custody. It does not rule out federal supervision or custody by another agency. Pre-1982 prison files route to the National Archives. USMS has no comparable public former-prisoner locator, so a federal court docket and district contact may be needed before BOP designation.

ICE permits a search by nine-digit A-number and country of birth or by exact biographical information. Hyphens and spelling matter. A no-result can reflect a recent transfer, protected record, age exclusion, or update delay. The Detention Reporting and Information Line is 1-888-351-4024. Since an immigration detainer can extend local custody and lead to an ICE handoff, only the sheriff's movement entry shows whether the county event ended in community release or federal civil custody.

Madison County Release Lookup Sources

Each source answers one custody question. Combining them prevents a transfer from being mistaken for freedom.

A strong evidence ladder starts with the least conclusive tool and ends with the record that answers the exact question. A live released flag can direct the next call. The sheriff release sheet establishes local date, reason, and destination. A clerk order establishes legal disposition. TDCJ or BPP establishes state sentence and parole status. BOP or ICE establishes the relevant federal custody. Search-engine caches and copied images do not replace any of them.

Two Madison County Release Systems

Jim Ferguson Unit makes this county easy to misread. The state prison opened in 1962 and has an official capacity of 2,417. It belongs to TDCJ, not the Madison County Sheriff. A person booked at the county jail and a person housed at Ferguson can both be called a Madison County inmate, though their records never merge.

County releases route through Sheriff Bobby Adams's office, InteropWeb, and local courts. Ferguson departures route through TDCJ. A departure from Ferguson may be an intrastate transfer, not release. Parole Division records apply when prison release leads to supervision. Full discharge requires TDCJ history or discharge documentation.

Ferguson houses men in G1 through G5, security detention, and transient classifications. Its physical location inside Madison County does not make the county jail roster a prison locator. Likewise, a Madison County defendant sentenced to TDCJ may disappear from the local roster before intake appears in the state search. Processing gaps can occur between custodians. The county movement history should name the handoff, while TDCJ confirms state intake and later location.

Where Ferguson Releases Actually Occur

A person housed at Ferguson may not exit through its gate. TDCJ uses regional release sites, and Ferguson is not listed as a routine regional release point. Families should follow Scheduled Release Location, not unit assignment. Special categories can route through Huntsville Unit.

TDCJ release information says releases generally occur from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays other than holidays, subject to change. The statewide process can include pickup at the actual release facility or a bus voucher. These are not county-jail pickup rules. Call the scheduled site before travel.

Madison County Jail publishes no comparable release-processing hours, public exit, waiting area, property-return method, or transportation plan. A family should call 936-348-2755 instead of applying TDCJ rules to a county release. Visitation windows and JailATM instructions concern a person who remains in custody and do not reveal when or where release will occur. If a transfer is expected, ask the jail for the receiving agency rather than arranging pickup based on a roster status.

Madison County Release Court Records

Madison County has no universal online criminal name search. The County Clerk handles county-level misdemeanor matters. The District Clerk serves felony matters in the 12th and 278th Judicial District Courts. Two justice precincts share an office. The County Clerk's online search is for land records, not criminal cases.

Ask the right clerk for a docket, charging instrument, bond return, judgment, disposition, sentence, jail-credit notation, dismissal, supervision order, revocation, or discharge order. Posted dockets are snapshots. A dismissal can authorize release without proving another hold cleared. A roster's released flag closes a booking without proving dismissal.

The official District Clerk page supplies the felony custodian route.

That court contact complements the sheriff sheet by documenting the legal action tied to release.

Ferguson Release Reentry Planning

Ferguson Unit officially offers CHANGES/Pre-Release and Reentry Planning. TDCJ's Rehabilitation and Reentry Division provides statewide resources and identification-document support at 877-887-6151. Those programs belong to the state-prison path. They are not promised services for someone whose whole stay occurred at Madison County Jail.

A person leaving prison for parole or mandatory supervision should confirm the reporting office and release certificate. Residence and conditions can change the office assignment. Madison County probation follows the four-county CSCD instead. Parole follows prison, while probation is imposed by a court.

TDCJ release processing can include civilian clothing, the trust-fund balance, and limited release funds described by statewide policy. The researched amount is $50 at release plus another $50 after reporting for parole or mandatory-supervision cases, or $100 for a Correctional Institutions Division flat discharge. Those details do not predict one person's eligibility, release date, gate, or transport. The scheduled location and completed agency record remain controlling.

Madison County Release Facilities

Five local or serving systems cover distinct roles. None is a complete countywide release database.

The named custodian narrows the search. Its completed record then distinguishes freedom, supervision, and continued custody elsewhere.

No BOP or ICE detention facility was established in Madison County by the reviewed official sources. Those federal systems remain relevant because a local detainee can be handed to a federal custodian. The BOP result pertains to a federal sentence. ICE ODLS pertains to civil immigration custody. USMS may hold a federal prisoner before BOP designation without offering a public former-prisoner locator. The sheriff movement record is therefore essential when a county booking closes before the next federal record becomes visible.