Released Inmates in Cleburne County
Cleburne County's local custody map begins with the Cleburne County Jail, operated by the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office at 140 Lambert Drive in Heflin. The sheriff's online roster lists people currently presented as in jail custody. During research, that roster showed a last-updated timestamp and current-custody fields such as photo, last name, first name, middle name, age, sex, booking date, race, height, and weight. It did not show a release-date column or a separate released-inmate archive on the main table reviewed.
That distinction controls how Cleburne County released inmates should be checked. If a person is still on the roster, treat the record as a current jail-custody lead. If the person is no longer on the roster, that absence is not a legal release confirmation by itself. The person may have bonded out, finished a local sentence, been released by court order, moved to ADOC, been transferred to another county, been picked up federally, or been taken into another custody system. The release record belongs with the agency that handled the custody change, usually the jail and the related court case for local releases.
Release-record information should be used for public-record, notification, court-process, and personal verification purposes only. Official confirmation still comes from the agency or court that created the record.
How Cleburne County Releases Happen
A release from the Cleburne County Jail does not always mean the person is free from all legal control. Some releases are true community releases. Others are transfers out of the county jail to a state, federal, immigration, medical, or another local custody channel. The first practical question is not only whether the person left the Cleburne County Jail, but where the record points next.
| Release or exit type | What it means | Where to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Bond release | The person leaves jail after bond conditions are satisfied. | Cleburne County Jail, Cleburne County Circuit Clerk, Alacourt case record. |
| Time served or short sentence completion | The local jail custody period ends because the sentence or credited time is complete. | Jail release file and court disposition or sentencing record. |
| Court order, dismissal, acquittal, or no further hold | The case outcome or court order removes the custody basis. | Court case first, then jail record for release date and time. |
| Probation-related release | The person may leave jail but remain under supervision. | Court order and Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles where applicable. |
| Transfer to ADOC | The person leaves county jail but remains in state custody. | ADOC current inmate search, ADOC records, ABPP after parole or mandatory supervision. |
| Federal or immigration transfer | The county jail exit is a handoff, not a community release. | BOP for sentenced federal inmates, federal court or USMS for federal process, ICE locator for current ICE detention. |
Cleburne Bond-Out Details
The Cleburne County Jail information sheet gives unusually concrete bond-out detail. It lists approved bonding agents and explains that a property bond requires a property sheet from the Revenue Commissioner's Office at the courthouse, sheriff approval, signatures from everyone listed on that property sheet, and a mandatory $35 money order payable to the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk. That $35 item is not a general release fee. It is a local cost tied to the property-bond path documented in the jail information sheet.
This matters because a bond release can involve both jail and courthouse steps. The jail can confirm custody status and the booking/release file. The Circuit Clerk or Alacourt record can confirm the bond order, case status, and future court obligations. If someone disappears from the roster after bond activity, confirm the release through the jail and the case record rather than treating roster absence as the whole answer.
What a Cleburne Release Record Shows
A Cleburne County release record is the administrative record connected to a booking or custody event. It is usually not published as its own web page. It should identify the person, the custody event, the date and time of departure, the reason for release or transfer, and the legal or agency record that explains why the jail no longer held the person. The sheriff roster gives current booking clues, but the release record itself is the stronger source for the final exit.
| Field | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Full name and identifiers | Who the booking/release record concerns; agency records may include date of birth, aliases, or booking identifiers. |
| Booking date and time | When the Cleburne County Jail received the person. |
| Charges or holds | The charge, warrant, probation hold, out-of-county hold, or agency hold supporting custody. |
| Bond or court order | Whether release depended on bond, a judge's order, dismissal, disposition, or sentence credit. |
| Release date and time | When the jail physically released, discharged, or transferred the person. |
| Release reason | Bond, time served, sentence completion, court order, transfer, probation, parole, detainer, or another reason. |
| Receiving agency | ADOC, another county, BOP/USMS, ICE, hospital, or no receiving agency if released to the community. |
| Case disposition | Conviction, dismissal, acquittal, plea, probation order, sentence, revocation, or other court outcome. |
How to Obtain a Cleburne Release Record
For a county-jail release, begin with the Cleburne County Jail because the sheriff is the custodian of the local booking and release file. The jail contact page lists Cleburne County Jail at 140 Lambert Drive, Heflin, AL 36278 and phone 256-463-7336. No specific online sheriff public-records request form or fee schedule was found in the official local pages reviewed, so the practical first step is to call the jail or sheriff's office for the current submission method, then make the request in writing if needed.
- Identify the person by full legal name, aliases if known, and date of birth or age when available.
- Provide the approximate booking date, arrest date, charge, warrant number, or case number if known.
- Ask for the exact record needed: release date and time, release reason, transfer destination, booking sheet, bond release, jail ledger entry, or booking photo.
- State that the request is for public-record verification, release confirmation, or court-process use.
- Include contact information, preferred delivery method, and willingness to pay lawful copying or processing fees after an estimate.
For a state-prison release or discharge record, ADOC has a separate records process. ADOC says public-records requests must be submitted in writing on ADOC Form 23-A with the processing fee under Administrative Regulation 23. ADOC lists public.records@doc.alabama.gov, the Public Records Coordinator at 334-353-3883, and Central Records at 334-353-9738. For parole, probation, mandatory supervision, delinquent status, revocation, or special conditions, ABPP records may be requested through the Bureau's public-records form and public.records@paroles.alabama.gov.
Court Records Explain Jail Releases
The local court record is especially important in Cleburne County because the sheriff roster does not publish release reasons on the main table reviewed. The Cleburne County Circuit Clerk page directs users to Alacourt and Just One Look for most trial court information and notes that required fees apply. The courthouse page lists the Cleburne County courthouse at 120 Vickery Street, Room 202, Heflin, AL 36264, and the Circuit Clerk phone as 256-463-2651.
Use the court case to explain why the jail record changed. A bond order, dismissal, plea, probation sentence, sentence completion, revocation hearing, warrant recall, or transfer order may be visible in court records even after the jail roster no longer lists the person. For Cleburne County released inmates, the best answer often comes from pairing the jail release date with the court disposition that authorized or explains it.
Alabama Release Record Rules
Alabama's public-records baseline is Ala. Code Section 36-12-40, which gives citizens the right to inspect and copy public writings except where another law provides otherwise. A jail release record or booking photo may be a public record, but access can still be limited by juvenile confidentiality, sealed records, expungement, active investigations, court orders, security restrictions, or the fact that the agency does not maintain the record in the form requested.
Certified copies and agency production can involve lawful fees, forms, clarification, and processing time. ADOC's records process is a good example: it requires a written Form 23-A request and fee handling. ABPP uses its own records form. Cleburne County jail records should be requested from the sheriff or jail, while case dispositions, bond orders, expungement orders, and sentencing records should be checked through the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk or Alacourt.
Expungement After a Release
Expungement is a court-centered process in Alabama. ALEA states that Ala. Code Section 15-27 allows expungement of criminal records in certain circumstances and that an Alabama court grants expungements, not ALEA. For a Cleburne County release record, the practical path is to use the court order with the originating agency: the court for the case file, the sheriff for the jail booking/release file, and ADOC or ALEA for records those agencies maintain.
Do not assume expungement automatically removes every online copy everywhere. It can affect official arrest, booking, court, and agency records depending on the order and the custodian, but third-party copies may require separate handling. Alabama was not identified in the reviewed NCSL source as having an enacted statewide mugshot pay-to-remove statute based on the failed 2014 and 2015 bills listed there.
How to Find a Released Cleburne Inmate
The best search path is released-first but begins with a current-custody check because people often confuse a missing roster entry with a confirmed release. Use each system for the custody type it actually covers.
- Check the Cleburne County Sheriff's roster at cleburnecountyso.org/inmate_roster.php. If the person is listed, they are being presented as in current Cleburne County Jail custody.
- If the person is not listed, do not assume release. Call the jail at 256-463-7336 or request the release record.
- Check the Cleburne County court case through the Circuit Clerk, Alacourt, or Just One Look for bond, disposition, sentence, dismissal, probation, or a transfer order.
- If the case became a state-prison sentence, search ADOC while the person is in current state custody.
- If release to parole, probation, mandatory supervision, delinquent status, or revocation is involved, check ABPP and the Anniston Field Office serving Cleburne County.
- Use VINELink or Alabama VNS as a notification layer, not as the only legal release record.
- Use BOP, federal court, USMS-related court records, or ICE only when the facts indicate federal or immigration custody.
For same-day recent-release checking, see the 24-hour release list. For state custody date calculations, see projected release date.
ADOC Offender Search for Releases
The Alabama Department of Corrections search is the correct channel for a Cleburne County person who was sentenced to state prison or transferred from county jail into ADOC custody. It is not the first channel for someone who simply bonded out of the Cleburne County Jail. ADOC's public search accepts AIS number, first name, and last name. The AIS number is a unique six-digit identifier and takes priority over name fields. ADOC caps displayed results at 50 and excludes Youthful Offender Act inmates.
Source view from the manifest: ADOC's current inmate search is one of the official statewide sources for state custody checks.
The key limit is just as important as the search fields: ADOC says the database only contains currently incarcerated inmates and historical data is not available online. If a person has already left ADOC custody, the public search may not show them. Confirmation then moves to ABPP supervision records, Alabama VNS where applicable, ADOC public records, or the sentencing court record.
| ADOC field or path | How to read it |
|---|---|
| AIS number | Best identifier for a state prisoner; it overrides first and last name fields if entered. |
| Minimum Release Date | ADOC's term for the earliest scheduled release to probation or end of sentence; it can change. |
| Parole Consideration Date | A tentative parole-board review date, not a guaranteed release date. |
| Jail Credit | Time credited from county jail; ADOC says the sentencing county circuit clerk prepares it. |
| Good Time Received or Revoked | Sentence-credit information tied to Alabama correctional incentive time rules. |
Cleburne Jail Releases and Recent Lists
The official sheriff roster reviewed for Cleburne County did not show a released tab, 24-hour release list, 72-hour release list, release-date field, release-reason field, or published retention window. It did show booking photos and current-custody fields, with a last-updated timestamp. That makes the roster useful for proving a person is still listed in jail, but weak as a released-inmate archive.
The fastest local fallback is the same on both short windows: check the live roster, call the jail at 256-463-7336 if the person is gone, and check the court case for the order or disposition that explains the jail exit. Use the 24-hour release list for same-day checks and the 72-hour release list for a three-day verification workflow.
Parole and Probation After Release
For Cleburne County supervision, the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles routes the county to the Anniston Field Office. The office is at Suite 2, 1201 Gurnee Avenue, Anniston, AL 36201, with phone 256-231-1710, fax 256-231-1722, and Monday through Friday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It matters after release because parole, probation, mandatory supervision, delinquent status, and revocation are supervision issues, not simple jail-roster entries.
Parole means release from state-prison custody to supervision before full discharge. Probation is a court sentence or supervision order that may follow or replace jail time. Mandatory supervision under Ala. Code Section 15-22-26.2 is a statutory state-prison release-to-supervision path for eligible ADOC inmates. See Parole & Probation for the local supervision workflow.
Notifications, Federal Cases, and ICE
VINELink Alabama can be used for custody-status and notification registration when a participating agency record is available. Alabama also operates the Alabama Victim Notification System for offenders convicted in Alabama and sentenced to prison, meaning ADOC custody. The VNS page tells users with a case that has not gone to trial to contact the sheriff in the county where the crime occurred, which sends pretrial Cleburne County questions back to the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office.
Federal and immigration channels apply only when the facts support them. BOP's inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and can show release-date context for federal custody. ICE's locator is for current ICE detention. A person leaving Cleburne County Jail on an ICE detainer or federal pickup has left the local jail, but that is a transfer out of local custody rather than a confirmed release to the community.
Released or Still in Custody
Use the system that matches the question. A live custody roster, a release record, a court disposition, and a state offender search answer different things.
| System | Best for | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Cleburne County sheriff roster | Current county jail custody, booking photo while listed, booking date. | No distinct release archive or release-date field found on the main table reviewed. |
| Cleburne County Jail record | Release date, release reason, transfer destination, booking file, booking photo request. | May require calling the jail or submitting a written public-records request. |
| Cleburne Circuit Clerk and Alacourt | Bond, disposition, sentence, dismissal, probation order, expungement order. | Alacourt/Just One Look access can require fees. |
| ADOC inmate search | Current state custody and release-date calculation fields while incarcerated. | ADOC says historical data is not available online. |
| ABPP | Parole, probation, mandatory supervision, absconder alerts, parole results. | Not a county jail release feed. |
| BOP or ICE | Federal sentence custody or current ICE detention. | Use only when a federal or immigration path is indicated. |
Cleburne County Detention Facilities
The only true local detention facility identified in the official facility sources reviewed is the Cleburne County Jail. State-prison custody for Cleburne County sentences is handled through Alabama Department of Corrections facilities statewide. No state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or regional jail was found as being located in Cleburne County in the official sources reviewed.
- Cleburne County Jail: the local jail and first source for booking and county release records.
- Alabama Department of Corrections facilities serving Cleburne County sentences: the state system for felony sentences transferred from county custody.