Where Cleburne Jail Releases Go
Cleburne County Jail is the primary local detention facility for Cleburne County, Alabama. It is operated by the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office at 140 Lambert Drive in Heflin. The sheriff's official roster shows people currently presented as being in county jail custody. During the research review, that roster displayed a last-updated timestamp and fields for Photo, Last, First, Middle, Age, Sex, Booking Date, Race, Height, and Weight. It did not show a release-date field, a release-reason field, a 24-hour release window, or a 72-hour release window.
That distinction controls the search. If a person is still listed, the roster is evidence that the person is currently being shown in Cleburne County Jail custody. If the person is no longer listed, the absence is only a lead. The person may have been released to the community, posted bond, completed a short sentence, moved to probation, been transferred to the Alabama Department of Corrections, been picked up by another county, been moved into federal custody, or been taken into immigration custody if an ICE process applies. A disappearance from the roster is not the same thing as a verified release record.
A true local release usually points back to two records: the jail booking and release file, and the court case that explains the legal reason custody ended. Bond releases should be checked against the jail and the district or circuit court case. Time-served or sentence-completion releases should be checked against the jail record and disposition. Dismissals, acquittals, no bills, and other non-conviction outcomes are court-record questions, not roster questions. Transfers are different because a person may leave Cleburne County Jail while remaining in custody somewhere else.
Confirm a Cleburne Jail Release
Use a released-first workflow that separates county jail custody from state prison custody. The home page covers the full countywide search path, but a Cleburne County Jail release can be narrowed with these steps:
- Open the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office inmate roster and search the current listing.
- If the person is listed, treat the person as still in current Cleburne County Jail custody until the sheriff confirms otherwise.
- If the person is not listed, do not assume release. Call the jail at 256-463-7336 or check the court case.
- Use the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk or Alacourt/Just One Look for bond orders, disposition, sentence, dismissal, probation, or court release orders.
- If the jail release was a transfer to ADOC, search the Alabama Department of Corrections current inmate search while the person remains in state custody.
- If the person is under parole, probation, or mandatory supervision, use the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles and the Anniston Field Office serving Cleburne County.
- If the person was federally sentenced, use BOP. If immigration detention is indicated, use ICE ODLS.
- Request the release record or booking photo from the sheriff if no online source confirms the release.
VINELink can help when Cleburne County Jail or another participating Alabama agency feeds custody events into VINE. It should be treated as a custody-status and notification channel, not as the legal custodian of the jail release file. If VINE shows a released status, confirm the release date, release reason, and any transfer destination with the sheriff, court, ADOC, ABPP, BOP, ICE, or other originating agency as the facts require.
Cleburne County Jail Records and Contact
The jail contact source lists Cleburne County Jail at 140 Lambert Drive, Heflin, AL 36278, with jail phone 256-463-7336. No official online public-records request form or fee schedule for Cleburne County Sheriff's Office release records was found in the reviewed sources. For a release record, call the jail or sheriff's office for the current request method, then submit a written request if the office asks for one.
Cleburne County Jail
140 Lambert Drive
Heflin, AL 36278
Phone: 256-463-7336
Current roster: cleburnecountyso.org/inmate_roster.php
A focused request should identify the person by full legal name, date of birth or age if known, booking date or arrest date, case number or charge if known, and the exact field requested. Useful release-record fields include release date and time, release reason, release type, transfer destination, bond release, booking sheet, jail ledger entry, and booking photo. The request should also state that the information is sought for public-record verification, release confirmation, or court-process use.
About Cleburne County Jail
The sheriff's county page identifies Jon Daniel as Sheriff and describes the Sheriff's Office as responsible for enforcing state and local laws, investigating crimes, courtroom security, service of legal documents, emergency-response coordination, and managing the county jail. The jail holds local detainees and inmates in county custody. That can include pretrial detainees, people arrested on warrants, people held on local charges, people serving short local sentences, people waiting for transfer, probation-violation holds, out-of-town warrants, and other law-enforcement holds.
The current roster should be read as an operational custody source. It can show a booking photo and booking date while a person is listed, but the reviewed main table did not show charges, bond amount, release windows, release reason, or release date. A release record is usually deeper than the public roster because it explains the administrative event that ended county jail custody or moved the person to another agency.
Bond Releases and Courthouse Steps
Cleburne County has one unusually specific local release detail in the jail information sheet. The PDF lists approved bonding agents and describes property-bond steps. For a property bond, it says the property sheet comes from the Revenue Commissioner's Office at the courthouse, sheriff approval is required, everyone listed on the property sheet must sign, and a mandatory $35 money order must be payable to the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk. That amount is tied to the property-bond process described by the jail information sheet. It should not be treated as a general release fee for every person leaving jail.
This is why a bond-out search often needs both jail and courthouse checks. The jail can confirm whether the person physically left custody and whether the release was recorded as bond. The court case can show the bond order, later bond modification, new conditions, failure-to-appear issue, dismissal, plea, sentence, or probation order. The Cleburne County courthouse source gives the courthouse address as 120 Vickery Street, Room 202, Heflin, AL 36264, and the Circuit Clerk phone as 256-463-2651.
Transfers Are Not Always Release
A jail release can be a handoff rather than a return to the community. If a Cleburne County felony sentence results in state prison, the next public search is ADOC's current inmate search. ADOC is useful while a person remains incarcerated because it displays sentence-calculation fields such as Minimum Release Date, Parole Consideration Date, Parole Status, Jail Credit, Good Time Received, and Good Time Revoked. After the person leaves ADOC, the public search may not show a historical record because ADOC says historical data is not available online.
Another-county warrants, federal pickup, and immigration detention also change the route. BOP covers sentenced federal inmates from 1982 to the present. ICE's locator is for current ICE detention and should not be used to imply every Cleburne County release has an immigration issue. The U.S. Marshals Service is relevant to federal pickup and federal transportation, but it does not publish a county-style release feed. In each transfer situation, the Cleburne County Jail record remains the handoff record, and the receiving agency becomes the next confirmation source.
Public Record Use Limits
Release information can be incomplete, delayed, sealed, expunged, or limited by law. Juvenile confidentiality, active investigations, court orders, security limits, and records that an agency does not maintain in the requested format can affect access. Alabama public-records law generally supports inspection and copying of public writings unless an exception applies, but public does not always mean instant, free, or online.
Use jail, release, booking-photo, court, VINE, ADOC, and third-party search information only for public-record navigation, release confirmation, notification, personal knowledge, or court-related purposes. Verify any custody or release fact directly with the originating government office before relying on it.