Cleburne County Projected vs Actual Release
A projected release date is a planned or calculated date. The actual release date is the date the person is physically released, transferred, paroled, discharged, or otherwise leaves that custody status. In Alabama state prison records, the key public term is often "Minimum Release Date." ADOC defines that as the earliest scheduled date an inmate can be released to probation or end of sentence. It is not the same as the final event recorded by the jail, ADOC, ABPP, or the court.
For Cleburne County, the first split is local jail versus state prison. A person awaiting trial in the Cleburne County Jail does not have a sentence-calculation date in the ordinary sense. Their release may depend on bond, a court order, dismissal, time served, a hold, or transfer. A sentenced ADOC inmate has state fields that can include Minimum Release Date, Parole Consideration Date, Good Time Received, Good Time Revoked, Jail Credit, Time Served, and Parole Status while the person remains in current ADOC custody.
| Date or status | What it means for a Cleburne County case |
|---|---|
| Minimum Release Date | ADOC's earliest scheduled date for release to probation or end of sentence, subject to change. |
| Parole Consideration Date | A tentative Board review date, not a promised release. |
| Jail Credit | Time credited from county jail before sentencing, prepared by the sentencing county circuit clerk. |
| Actual Release Date | The final recorded release, transfer, parole, or discharge date in the agency record. |
Find a Cleburne County Projected Release Date
The best source depends on where the person is held. A current Cleburne County Jail detainee should be checked through the sheriff roster, jail records, and the court case. A sentenced ADOC prisoner should be checked through ADOC while the person remains in current state custody. A person released to parole, probation, or mandatory supervision may need ABPP records after the prison release event.
- Start with the Cleburne County inmate roster to see whether the person is still presented as in local jail custody.
- If the person is in local pretrial custody, use the Cleburne County Jail and court case. A projected release date may not exist online.
- If the person has been sentenced to ADOC, search the ADOC inmate search by AIS number when known, or by first and last name.
- Read the ADOC record with the ADOC definitions, especially Minimum Release Date, Parole Consideration Date, Jail Credit, and good-time fields.
- Check the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk record when jail credit, new cases, sentence changes, bond action, or court orders could affect the date.
- For parole or mandatory supervision, check ABPP records and local supervision through the Anniston Field Office.
- Register for notification where available, then confirm the final release with the agency that holds the release record.
When the date relates to ADOC custody, the Cleburne County Jail is not the office computing the state sentence. When the person is still in county jail on a local matter, ADOC cannot supply a state-prison release date that does not exist. The Cleburne County released inmates search path is useful when the question changes from "when" to "has the person already left custody?"
ADOC's inmate search is the state portal tied to active Alabama prison custody and the fields used for release-date review.
The portal is strongest before release, because ADOC states that its public search contains current inmates rather than historical online records.
Cleburne County ADOC Date Fields
ADOC's definitions page is important because it names the fields readers often describe as a projected release date. "Minimum Release Date" is the earliest scheduled release date to probation or end of sentence. "Parole Consideration Date" is a tentative Board review date. "Jail Credit" is time spent in county jail before sentencing, and ADOC says the sentencing county's circuit clerk prepares it. For a Cleburne County sentence, that means a local court input can affect a state-prison calculation.
ADOC also defines Good Time Received and Good Time Revoked. Those fields are central because Alabama correctional incentive time can reduce or change the date, while discipline can take good time away. ADOC says Minimum Release Date can change when disciplinaries remove good time or when the circuit clerk sends new cases or sentence changes. That is the research-specific issue for Cleburne County: the projected release date may depend on both the state prison calculation and Cleburne County Circuit Clerk records.
| ADOC field | Use in a Cleburne County release-date check |
|---|---|
| AIS number | The six-digit ADOC identifier. ADOC gives it priority over name fields. |
| Minimum Release Date | The earliest scheduled release to probation or end of sentence, subject to good time and sentence changes. |
| Parole Consideration Date | The tentative date for parole review by the Board. |
| Jail Credit | County jail time credited before sentencing. For a Cleburne sentence, ask the Cleburne County Circuit Clerk about the source record. |
| Good Time Received or Revoked | Sentence-credit fields that can move the scheduled release date. |
| Parole Status | Shows parole, delinquent, or revoked status where the ADOC record includes it. |
ADOC's definitions page explains the field names used to read release planning in an Alabama state-prison record.
The definitions are the source for distinguishing a minimum release date from a parole consideration date and a court-prepared jail-credit entry.
Cleburne County Good-Time Rules
Alabama good time is governed by the Correctional Incentive Time Act, Ala. Code Section 14-9-41. The statute uses class-based earning levels and exclusions. It is not a simple rule that every person serves the same share of a sentence. Current statutory text includes earning rates for Class I, Class II, and Class III, with no accrual for Class IV. It also lists ineligibility categories tied to offense type, sentence length, life or death sentences, Class A felony convictions, crimes causing death by deadly weapon, child sex offenses, and other limits.
For release-date work, the practical point is restraint. A Cleburne County projected release date should not be guessed from the sentence alone. Good time may be earned, lost, or unavailable. ADOC's public fields can show good-time information while the person is in current custody, but the final calculation is agency-specific. A court change from Cleburne County, new charges, or amended sentence papers can also change what ADOC has to compute.
| Rule source | Why it can affect the date |
|---|---|
| Ala. Code Section 14-9-41 | Sets correctional incentive time classes, earning rates, exclusions, and loss of credit. |
| Ala. Code Section 15-22-26.2 | Creates mandatory supervision release timing for eligible ADOC inmates before end of sentence. |
| Ala. Code Section 15-22-28 | Controls parole investigation and initial consideration timing, with case-specific factors. |
Alabama also has parole timing rules that can include 85-percent-style restrictions for some serious cases, but the research does not support a universal "everyone serves exactly 85 percent" statement. The safer Cleburne County rule is to read the statute, ADOC fields, ABPP materials, and the sentencing order together.
Cleburne County Jail Credit Inputs
Section 19's release-date angle is local: ADOC says jail credit is prepared by the sentencing county's circuit clerk, and ADOC says Minimum Release Date can move when the circuit clerk sends new cases or sentence changes. For Cleburne County, the Circuit Clerk is therefore not just a court-record source. The clerk's record can be part of the state release-date calculation when the sentence started in Cleburne County and moved to ADOC.
The Cleburne County Circuit Clerk page says most trial court information may be obtained through Alacourt/Just One Look, with required fees for that access. The county courthouse page lists the courthouse at 120 Vickery Street, Room 202, Heflin, AL 36264, and the Circuit Clerk phone as 256-463-2651. Those details are not a release-date calculator, but they identify the local court channel for sentence, disposition, jail credit, amended orders, probation orders, and other documents that explain why a date changed.
Cleburne County Circuit Clerk
120 Vickery Street, Room 202
Heflin, AL 36264
Phone: 256-463-2651
Use for court disposition, sentence papers, jail credit, probation orders, and case changes.
ADOC Central Records
301 South Ripley Street
P.O. Box 301501
Montgomery, AL 36130-1501
Central Records: 334-353-9738
Use ADOC records channels for state-prison release and discharge records.
Note: A short county-jail sentence may require direct jail and court confirmation because no local online good-time or weekend-release rule was found in the official Cleburne County sources reviewed.
Cleburne County Release Dates Change
A projected release date changes when the inputs change. Some inputs are state-corrections inputs, such as good time received or revoked. Some are court inputs, such as jail credit, new cases, amended sentences, or a new court order. Others are supervision or transfer inputs, such as parole action, mandatory supervision, detainers, or another agency receiving custody. The date is a record of a calculation, not a promise that nothing can happen before release.
| Change factor | Likely source | Effect on projected release |
|---|---|---|
| Good-time loss | ADOC disciplinary and good-time fields | Can move the minimum release date later. |
| Jail credit correction | Cleburne County Circuit Clerk and ADOC records | Can change the credited time applied to the sentence. |
| New case or amended sentence | Court record and ADOC update | Can change the sentence calculation ADOC uses. |
| Parole grant or denial | ABPP hearing results and minutes | A grant still needs home-plan verification and ADOC coordination; a denial may reset review timing. |
| Detainer or hold | Jail, court, receiving agency, BOP, ICE, or another county | Can mean release from one facility is a transfer rather than community release. |
A person can leave the Cleburne County Jail and still not be released to the community. A transfer to ADOC, another county, federal custody, or ICE is a release from one facility but not a final discharge. That distinction matters when the date being checked is a physical jail release, a state-prison release, a parole release, or a final sentence discharge.
Confirm Cleburne County Release Dates
Confirmation comes from the agency that owns the event. For a county jail release, call the Cleburne County Jail at 256-463-7336 or request the jail release record. For a court-driven release, check the Cleburne County case through the Circuit Clerk or Alacourt ACCESS. For a state-prison release or discharge, use ADOC records. For parole, probation, mandatory supervision, or a delinquent or revoked status, use ABPP and the Anniston Field Office.
VINELink can help with alerts, especially when the person is covered by a participating custody feed. Alabama VNS can help with ADOC-convicted prison cases. Neither is a substitute for the release record if the exact date, release reason, or transfer destination is needed. The Cleburne County VINELink check explains how to search for one person and register for a custody-change notice.
ADOC's contact page documents Central Records and the public-records route used when online current-custody search is not enough.
The records route is most useful after release, when a public search may no longer show a historical ADOC record online.