Find Perry County Jail Releases

Perry County Jail Release Outcomes

Leaving Perry County Jail does not always mean entering the community. A court may authorize pretrial release, bond, dismissal, time served, probation, or release after a county sentence. Those events can end jail custody without ending the court case. Other people depart because the sheriff transfers them to IDOC, another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, or a different authority. The sheriff's release or transfer entry should state the disposition and, when publicly available, the receiving agency.

The distinction matters because Perry County Jail houses more than local county detainees. The 2024 inspection says the jail holds U.S. Marshals detainees under contract and may house people for area counties. Someone can walk out of the Perry building in the physical sense while remaining in legal custody. A transfer timestamp proves departure from the jail, not freedom in the community.

Confirm a Perry Jail Release

The sheriff's verified web route is a current-inmate JailTracker path, not a historical release archive. Absence from that roster is only a starting clue. It can reflect release, transfer, delayed data, a spelling difference, or a record outside the public roster's scope. Perry County does not publish a verified 24-hour or 72-hour release list, update promise, or online retention period.

Use a short, source-based sequence instead:

1. Check the Perry County Sheriff's current-inmate route and record the time of the check.
2. Search the same person through Illinois VINE. Read the source agency and exact event, because a transfer alert is not a community release.
3. Open the Perry court case through the official court-directory route to Judici. A dismissal, pretrial order, time-served sentence, or prison commitment may explain the custody change.
4. Call the jail at 618-357-6931 and ask whether the public record shows discharge or transfer.
5. If the result remains unclear, request the booking, discharge, and transfer fields through Perry County FOIA.

For a broader explanation of how the county, state, court, and VINE checks fit together, use the Perry County released-inmate search. Keep each result tied to its source and check date.

Perry Jail Records Contact

The jail and sheriff lines serve different needs. The jail can address immediate public custody questions. A written record request goes to the county FOIA officer, who handles access under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

A request form is optional. Requests may be sent by email, delivered in person, or submitted in writing. For email requests made under the county's 2026 procedure, place the full request in the body of the email rather than provide it only as an attachment or hyperlink. Ask for electronic delivery and a fee estimate. No special Perry County copy charge for these records was verified.

Request Perry Jail Release Records

Describe the record by fields instead of asking for every document. Give the full name, an approximate booking date, and a date of birth when appropriate. Request the booking number, time received, time discharged or transferred, release disposition, destination or receiving agency if publicly disclosable, charges, bond or pretrial-release data, and the booking photograph when and if available. Asking for discharge and transfer data together reduces the risk of calling a movement a release.

Illinois FOIA section 2.15 expressly includes the time and date an incarcerated person was received into, discharged from, or transferred from the arresting agency's custody among specified arrest-report information. It also covers a photograph when and if available, subject to legal restrictions. Illinois law generally gives a public body five business days to answer a noncommercial request, with a possible additional five-business-day extension for statutory reasons. That is response timing, not a promise that every requested item will be disclosed.

No verified public retention term was found for Perry booking logs, discharge logs, or photographs. For an older event, ask whether each record remains retained and request the applicable approved records-retention schedule. If part of a record is withheld, ask for the nonexempt remainder and the cited statutory basis.

Build a careful event sequence when sources disagree. Note the court order's filing time, the sheriff's discharge or transfer time, the VINE event, and the receiving agency's admission. Small gaps can reflect separate update schedules. A large mismatch should be resolved through the custodian's written record, not by blending dates from different bookings. Compare the booking number, birthdate, case number, and admission date before treating records as one person. Charges remain allegations unless a court disposition resolves them.

Inside Perry County Jail

Perry County Jail is a county facility operated by the Perry County Sheriff's Office. The official 2024 IDOC inspection identifies Sheriff Chad Howard and Jail Administrator Major Doug Clark. It reports that the jail was constructed in 1987 and has 57 rated spaces: 47 for men and 10 for women. Eighteen people were held on the inspection date. These are dated facility facts, not a current population count.

The facility handles arrests, pretrial detention, short local sentences, holds, and transfers. Its contract and area-county role makes the legal custodian more important than the street address. The Perry County Jail roster cannot confirm release from Pinckneyville Correctional Center, and the IDOC offender search does not ordinarily document a person who only spent time in the county jail.

Perry Jail Property at Release

The 2024 inspection documents permanent signed personal-property receipt practices. It also addresses release-related medication documentation and resource or referral steps in specified mental-health discharge circumstances. Those standards support precise questions about what was recorded during a particular exit. They do not establish a universal public release time, exit door, transportation service, or property-pickup policy.

When a property issue arises, ask the jail what receipt or acknowledgment belongs to the named booking and release. Keep that request separate from the legal custody question. A property receipt can show that an item was handled, but it does not by itself prove the release type, destination, or end of another agency's hold. No official daily release-time policy was found, so avoid planning around an assumed hour.

Medication and referral documentation is event-specific. The inspection describes standards for defined circumstances, not a guarantee that each released person received the same supplies or plan. Ask for the public part of the relevant discharge record without seeking protected medical details. The jail can explain its current property process, while the signed receipt is the stronger source for what happened in a past booking.

Federal Custody After Perry Jail

A U.S. Marshals contract detainee may be physically housed at Perry County Jail while a federal court and federal custodian control the case. If that person leaves the county building, examine the sheriff's transfer entry and federal docket. The Bureau of Prisons locator becomes useful after BOP designation and can later show a released or not-in-BOP-custody result. There is no comparable general public U.S. Marshals historical release locator.

A BOP result must also be read narrowly. “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody” means the person is not held by BOP; it does not rule out another correctional system, immigration custody, parole, or federal supervised release. A Perry County Jail departure and a federal release are two different events unless the underlying records connect them.

Two Perry Release Systems

Perry County has both a small county jail and a large state prison. That creates an easy search error. Perry County Jail records belong to the sheriff, county FOIA process, and local court path. Pinckneyville Correctional Center records belong to IDOC and, for certain parole or discharge matters, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. The state prison is not a branch of the county jail merely because both are in Pinckneyville.

Search results create another trap. A polished iSOMS portal using the Perry name belongs to Tennessee, not Perry County, Illinois. Do not import its people, charges, or release entries into an Illinois chronology. Verify the state, facility, and operator before relying on any result.