Find Detention Center Releases

York Detention Center Release Paths

The York County Sheriff’s Office identifies several ways a person can leave the main building. A detainee may post bond, receive a court order for release, finish a short local sentence, or leave after a Family Court sentence. Those events may end physical confinement. Other departures do not. A sentenced person can transfer to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, while another detainee may move to a different county, the United States Marshals Service, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The York movement record should state the release type or destination.

Start with the kind of custody involved. A county booking ends when jail staff process the movement, but the legal cause may sit in a separate bond or sentencing order. The York County Public Index can show that court event. It cannot supply the exact moment jail staff completed discharge. If the record names SCDC, USMS, or ICE as the recipient, describe the event as a transfer out of York County custody. Do not call it a community release.

Confirm York Detention Center Release

The official York County current jail roster is useful for one narrow fact. It states that only current booking information is available. A displayed booking marked *In Jail supports current listed custody at that moment. A missing name does not supply a release date, reason, or destination because past bookings generally drop from the public view.

1. Search the current roster using the name or known booking details. Save the access time and match more than the name.
2. Call Booking/Releases at 803-628-3083, option 2. Ask for the actual departure date and time and whether it was community release or transfer.
3. Check the right York court case for the bond order, disposition, or sentence that authorized the movement.
4. If staff identifies SCDC, USMS, ICE, or another county, open that custodian’s search or contact channel.
5. Request the booking and movement record when durable proof is needed. Ask for the release type and destination as recorded.

The full county search and records route is also explained on the York County released inmates search. That route is especially useful when the custody type is not yet known. It separates York County jail movement from SCDC release and federal custody rather than forcing every person through the live county roster.

The roster image below comes from the county’s official current-booking page.

Its release-date column appears within a current-only system, which is why the underlying movement record remains the better source for a past release.

Note: Match the booking number, birth or age information, and case number when possible because names alone can identify the wrong person.

York Detention Center Release Records

For an immediate status question, the Detention Center directory is the direct starting point. Staff may limit what can be confirmed by phone. A written request creates a more durable result and lets the requester identify the exact booking, movement entry, and destination sought. The Sheriff’s public mailing address should be used for records correspondence unless the official form gives a different instruction.

The Sheriff’s FOIA page links the request form. Identify the full name and aliases, birth date if lawfully known, approximate booking and release range, and booking number when available. Request the booking sheet, actual release date and time, release type or disposition, receiving agency, and movement destination. Electronic delivery is practical for records already held in that form.

York publishes copy and staff-time fees, and a deposit may apply. Ask for a current estimate before work begins. South Carolina law also provides an in-person inspection route for documents identifying people confined during the prior three months, subject to exemptions. That rule does not create an online release archive, nor does it state that older records were destroyed.

York Detention Center Main Building

The main building is a county jail run by the York County Sheriff’s Office Detention Division. The official detention page describes a direct-supervision facility at the Moss Justice Center. It opened in March 1995 and has 621 beds. Direct supervision describes a jail operating model. It does not change which office keeps the booking and release records.

People arrive from several York County law-enforcement agencies. The jail holds pretrial detainees, some people serving terms of less than ninety days, Family Court sentences, people waiting for SCDC transport, and contract USMS or ICE detainees. Those groups share a physical site but not one release route. The arresting agency, court, detention division, and next custodian can each control a different part of the record chain.

Official pages vary between 1675-3A and 1676-3A York Highway for the detention building. The public Sheriff’s address at 1675-2A York Highway is the researched route for correspondence. Verify the correct public entrance and current visiting hours before travel instead of treating a custody-building address as a public records counter.

York Detention Center Federal Transfers

York houses both USMS and ICE detainees. It also operates an ICE 287(g) function, under which trained local staff perform specified immigration functions within the agreement. This mix makes York County roster disappearance more ambiguous than a simple bond-out event. A person physically held in the main building may still be part of a federal detention process.

A York record stating “released to ICE” or “released to USMS” means county custody ended and another authority took over. For ICE, use the Online Detainee Locator System with the A-number and country of birth or the supported name route. ICE may show some people released from ICE custody for sixty days, but not every record appears. For USMS, use the federal court order and York movement record because the Marshals Service has no broad public historical release search. The BOP locator becomes relevant only if the person later entered Bureau of Prisons custody.

This distinction protects the meaning of the word release. Departure from a York building can still be continued custody. If federal and county sources differ, ask each custodian about the event it controls rather than assuming one database describes the entire chain.

York Release Records Across Buildings

The present annex was formerly York County Prison. The Sheriff took custody in July 2021 and merged it into the Detention Center’s two-building operation. Older paperwork may still use the old prison name. That history matters when a record search spans the transition, yet it does not create a second current release database.

Use both “York County Prison” and “York County Detention Center Annex” in a focused historical request. Ask staff to search the booking and movement system for the known person, dates, and booking number under both facility labels. For a current matter, the Detention Division’s Booking/Releases and Inmate Records routes serve both buildings.

The name change also prevents a common classification error. The old word “Prison” does not turn the annex into an SCDC institution today. A state sentence begins in the SCDC system only after state acceptance and transfer. Until then, York’s record remains the source for physical departure from the county operation.

Note: Keep the older facility name in a historical request, but use the combined Detention Center workflow for present release confirmation.

Resolve York Release Record Conflicts

Timing can explain a mismatch among York sources. The county roster has no published update cadence, a court order can appear before physical discharge is processed, and a receiving agency may not display the person at once. Record the exact access time for each result. Ask York Detention about the movement it controls, the clerk about the order it controls, and the receiving agency about the custody it accepted. A later entry should not be used to rewrite an earlier source without noting both dates.

South Carolina VINE can add a person-specific status check and custody alert, but it is not the final archive. A transfer may create a new agency record and require a new registration. Pair any VINE event with the York movement record before stating the release reason.