Find Clarke County Release Dates

Clarke Projected and Actual Dates

MDOC uses the exact label Tentative Release Date. It is a current calculation for a state sentence. It is not a guarantee, a county-jail forecast, or proof that release occurred. An actual release date records when the custodian relinquished control. Even then, the destination is vital because release to MDOC, ICE, USMS, or another jail is a transfer between custodians rather than a return to the community.

A pretrial Clarke County detainee usually has no calculated sentence-release date. The timing can turn on a bond order, dismissal, another hold, and the jail's completion of required processing. A court order supplies the legal authority. The sheriff's jail docket or booking-release entry shows the physical movement. For a person serving a county sentence, the sentencing order and credit for time served must be read with the sheriff's actual release record.

Find Clarke County Release Dates

First classify the case as county jail, state prison, or another custody system. The MDOC Inmate Search applies to state-corrections records, not every person who has left Clarke County Jail. It accepts first name, last name, or MDOC ID. The ID is the safer route. Name searches require a careful match using birth date, physical details, county of conviction, offense, and sentence information.

1. Identify the custodian and sentence type. Do not apply an MDOC date to a local pretrial or county-sentence case.
2. For state custody, search by MDOC ID or exact name and open the detail record.
3. Read the field exactly as “Tentative Release Date,” then note the access date, location, sentence, and county of conviction.
4. For a county case, obtain the judgment, bond or release order, and any credit-for-time-served term from the correct Clarke court.
5. Call the sheriff at 601-776-5252 for the jail-docket entry, or MDOC Records at 601-933-2889 for state computation and discharge data.
6. Near or after the date, confirm the actual event and destination through the custodian's record.

The full Clarke County released-inmate search path explains how the sheriff docket, court file, VINE event, and state record work together. No result in the MDOC search does not prove a local release. A county-only detainee may never have received an MDOC number.

Note: Record the date viewed because a live tentative date can change after sentence, credit, or custody updates.

Clarke State Release Date Fields

An MDOC detail can contain identity and physical descriptors, an MDOC entry date, current location and unit, a location-change date, sentence count, total sentence length, offense, county of conviction, sentence date, a photograph, and the Tentative Release Date. These state fields help confirm that the right record has been opened. They do not serve as the Clarke sheriff's booking or release schema.

The official example detail in the manifest demonstrates the placement and wording of the state field. It is a public example and has no claimed Clarke County connection. View the official MDOC example detail before interpreting the capture.

The capture shows why the state label must remain “Tentative.” A photo or projected field does not prove that release has happened.

MDOC warns that release types and dates can differ due to state law. Its handbook says Records computes parole, earned-release-supervision, tentative discharge, and maximum dates while accounting for eligible county-jail credit. Contact MDOC Records when the displayed date must be understood in the context of all sentences and holds.

The location and location-change date can also prevent a false reading. A person transferred from Clarke County Jail into MDOC has left county custody but has not been released to the community. If the state detail still shows an institution or unit, follow the MDOC path. If the person later appears in the separate Parolee Search, that may support conditional community supervision, but it does not by itself supply the exact state-prison exit time.

Clarke Release Date Credit Rules

Mississippi earned-time rules do not support one simple percentage for all prisoners. Miss. Code §47-5-138 permits an earned-time allowance that may reach one-half of confinement for eligible inmates, but it also contains exclusions and special limits. The familiar “85 percent” phrase comes from a fifteen-percent cap that applies to affected inmates. It is wrong to state that each current prisoner must serve exactly 85 percent or that each eligible person gets one-half off.

For offenses committed on or after July 1, 2014, Miss. Code §47-7-3.2 sets more specific minimum thresholds for covered cases. The statute states 25 percent or ten years, whichever is less, for covered nonviolent crimes; 50 percent or twenty years for covered violent crimes under §97-3-2; and 60 percent or twenty-five years for covered armed robbery, drive-by shooting, or carjacking. Life, habitual-offender, sex-offense, trafficking, offense-date, and other rules or exclusions can change the analysis.

Parole eligibility, earned release, and discharge remain distinct. Eligibility permits consideration but does not compel a grant. Earned Release Supervision is conditional, and the MDOC handbook says the recipient remains under MDOC jurisdiction. Discharge is the completion or termination of the controlling obligation. A real sentence requires current agency computation or qualified legal review, not arithmetic based on a web summary.

County-jail credit is another source of confusion. MDOC says eligible presentence credit is used to establish the sentence begin date in a state computation. The amount must come from the judgment, jail certification, and MDOC record. It should not be guessed from the arrest date. A later correction to that credit can move the tentative date even when the sentence length itself has not changed.

Note: Mississippi release statutes and parole rules can change, so verify the live text and MDOC calculation for the specific sentence.

Why Clarke Release Dates Change

MDOC starts with the judgment and eligible presentence jail credit. It must then account for the way multiple terms run and the legal rules tied to the offense and date. Later records can move the result. A stale screen capture should never override the current MDOC detail, Records computation, or an amended judgment.

A detainer is a hold or request from another agency. It can mean the person leaves one facility but remains in another authority's custody. That is why an expected date must be paired with the destination and actual release type.

Release planning can also continue while the public date remains unchanged. MDOC's family and friends material describes case-manager work on exact arrangements and a process that may take thirty to forty-five days, including travel-plan verification. That is an administrative planning window, not a new release-date promise. The live record and case manager remain more useful near the projected date than an old capture.

Clarke County Jail Release Timing

No official Clarke County good-time policy, weekend-release practice, or fixed release-processing schedule was found. State-prison credit rules must not be imposed on a locally administered jail sentence without authority. For a local sentence, read the sentencing order, any credit-for-time-served term, and later court changes. Then request the sheriff's actual release date, time, disposition, and destination.

The sheriff's official page says the sheriff keeps the jail docket, but it offers no public roster, release calculator, or recent-release feed. Call 601-776-5252 with the name, birth date if known, and approximate booking date. The researched sheriff routing address is 444 West Donald Street, Quitman, MS 39355; public access hours remain unverified, so call before visiting.

Bond release is also not a date calculation. A judge may authorize bond, yet another case, warrant, detainer, or processing step can delay physical departure. The court order explains why release was permitted. The jail docket shows when Clarke relinquished custody.

Clarke's court structure can split the evidence. Justice Court handles initial felony appearances and other lower-level matters, while a felony may later proceed in Circuit Court. Municipal matters may remain with the city court. Search the court that issued the controlling order rather than assume each release basis will appear in Circuit MEC. A closed court flag still describes the case, not the person's body or destination.

Confirm Clarke County Release Dates

Near a tentative state date, contact MDOC Records with the MDOC ID. Ask what type of date appears, which sentences it combines, what jail credit has been applied, and whether a hold affects release. The official directory lists MDOC Records at P.O. Box 24388, Jackson, MS 39225, 601-933-2889, and MDOCRecordsDepartment@mdoc.state.ms.us. MDOC also says case managers handle exact release plans, including travel-plan checks.

Mississippi SAVIN/VINE can provide a person-specific event notice when a participating agency reports release or transfer. The Clarke County VINE inmate check explains the correct one-record workflow. Preserve the event text and time, but ask the named custodian for the actual record. A transfer notice is not community release.

For a local case, pair the Clarke court order with the sheriff's release record. For a state case, pair the live detail with MDOC Records, any Parole Board action, and the final release or discharge document. Agreement among those sources is far stronger than one projected field.