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Washington County Jail Releases

Washington County Jail / WCSO Jail is the primary county-jail facility in the Facility Map. It is operated by the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Chatom. A person released from this jail usually drops from the live WCSO Who's in Jail roster. After that, the proof of release is not the missing roster entry by itself. The better proof is the WCSO booking and release record, the court entry that explains the legal reason, or the receiving agency record if the person was moved to another custody system.

The WCSO jail snippet cited in the research says the Sheriff's Office is responsible for the Washington County Jail and that the facility houses an average of 80 inmates per day. That number helps show the local scale of the facility, but it is not a live count. The live roster remains the current-custody source. The release record remains the source for exact release date, time, reason, and transfer information.

Confirm Washington County Jail Release

The correct route depends on what happened at release. Bond or recognizance release points to WCSO and the court case. A court-order release points to the Circuit Clerk's case action summary. A state-prison commitment points to ADOC. A federal transfer points to the U.S. Marshals, BOP, or federal court records. ICE should be treated as a conditional path only when a record or official contact says immigration custody is involved.

1. Check the WCSO Who's in Jail roster. A listed person is still in jail custody.
2. If the person is not listed, check the Weekly Booking page while the booking may still be visible.
3. Ask WCSO for the release date, release time, release reason, bond status, charges at booking, and transfer destination if any.
4. Check the Washington County Circuit Clerk or AlaCourt Access for bond, disposition, sentence, revocation, or commitment details.
5. Use ADOC inmate search, BOP, ICE, or USMS only when the county or court record points to those systems.

WCSO Jail Records Contact

WCSO is the local custodian for Washington County Jail booking and release records. A focused request should include the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, approximate release date, and any case or booking number. Ask for the booking sheet, release date and time, release reason, bond status, listed charges, transfer destination, and booking photograph if it is publicly releasable.

For state-prison records after transfer, ADOC lists a central mail address at 301 S. Ripley Street, P.O. Box 301501, Montgomery, AL 36130-1501, toll-free number 1-855-WE-R-ADOC, and main number 334-353-3883. That state contact should not be used for an ordinary Washington County Jail bond-out unless the person entered ADOC custody.

About Washington County Jail

The Sheriff's Office operates the jail and publishes the county's official current-custody and recent-booking pages found in this research. The current roster is titled Who's in Jail. The recent page is at a URL path that says 24-hour-booking, but search identifies the page title as Weekly Booking. That naming quirk is important because a reader may expect a 24-hour release feed even though the researched official source is booking-focused.

No distinct WCSO 24-hour release list, 72-hour release list, or release archive was found. Washington County pages should therefore treat the online jail pages as current-custody and recent-booking sources. When a release needs proof, the fallback is WCSO records, the court case, and the receiving agency if the release was actually a transfer.

Washington County Jail Record Requests

Alabama's public-records law supports requests to the agency that maintains a record, subject to exceptions. Jail records may be withheld or redacted for juvenile matters, Youthful Offender records, sealed or expunged records, active investigations, medical details, victim or witness information, or security information. The request should ask for the release record itself and avoid broad demands for unrelated private data.

For court-disposition records, use the Washington County Circuit Clerk at the courthouse or AlaCourt Access. The court record can show a bond order, sentence, dismissal, probation order, revocation action, or commitment to ADOC. It often explains why the jail no longer holds the person, even when the jail website no longer displays the booking. For older release records, WCSO is still the better first contact for the jail release timestamp.

A strong request names the record instead of asking the office to research every possible source. Give the full name, date of birth if known, an approximate booking date, an approximate release date, and the case number if one is available from the court. Then ask for the booking sheet, release date and time, release reason, bond status, listed charges, receiving agency if transferred, and booking photograph if the photo is releasable. If the office requires a form, payment, identification, or in-person pickup, ask for that procedure before sending repeat requests.

Washington County Jail Transfers

A transfer is not the same as release to the community. If Washington County Jail releases a person to ADOC, the state search becomes the next record source. If the person leaves on a federal hold, BOP may show a sentenced federal inmate, while the U.S. Marshals or federal court record may be the better path for pretrial federal custody. If ICE or immigration custody is named in an official record, use ICE routes. The research did not find a source showing Washington County Jail as an ICE detention center, so ICE should not be treated as the ordinary local release channel.

The home page covers the full Washington County released-inmate search and release-record path, including ADOC, ABPP, court, VINELink, BOP, and conditional ICE routes.

Transfer language should be read carefully. A jail may show that local custody ended, while the person remains held by another agency. A court file may show a commitment order to ADOC, a warrant from another county, or a federal detainer. ADOC search then becomes useful only after the person is accepted into state custody. BOP records apply to federal sentenced inmates, not every person with a federal hold. A roster removal after a transfer should therefore be treated as a handoff, not as proof that all custody ended.