Find Clinton County Jail Releases

Clinton County Jail Exit Routes

Clinton County Jail is the county’s one verified local correctional facility. Its mixed population makes the exit disposition crucial. A local defendant may enter the community under a court’s pretrial-release order. A county-sentenced person may finish the jail term. Someone committed to state prison may be delivered to IDOC. An other-county boarder may return to the originating county. A federal boarder may return to the U.S. Marshals Service, appear in federal court, or later enter BOP custody.

Only the first two paths ordinarily indicate community release from the local matter, and another warrant or hold can still change the destination. Ask for the event in the jail’s own terms, including its date, authority, and receiving agency. Do not treat a missing name as proof of freedom. The Sheriff site has no public roster, and leaving the Carlyle building may simply mark a change of custodian.

Confirm a Clinton County Jail Release

Call the Clinton County Sheriff and Jail at 618-594-4556. Give the full name and date of birth. Ask whether the person is physically held now. If the answer is no, ask whether the last event was a community release or transfer, the event date, and the destination. Telephone information is useful for a fast status check, but it is not a substitute for a documentary custody record.

1. Identify the booking with name, birth date, approximate booking date, and case number if known.
2. Ask current custody first, then ask for the nature and date of the last event.
3. Compare the event with the Clinton County Circuit Court order or disposition.
4. If IDOC received the person, move to the statewide offender search.
5. Request the existing jail custody-event record when written proof is needed.

The official Sheriff page shown below is linked from the county’s jail information channel.

It provides the correct Carlyle contact, but it does not publish a roster, recent-release feed, or historical release archive.

Clinton County Jail Records Contact

The facility is at 810 Franklin Street, Carlyle, Illinois 62231. The Corrections/Jail line is 618-594-4556; the Sheriff business line is 618-594-4555, and fax is 618-594-5574. Published Sheriff office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those hours do not promise that historical jail records will be researched by phone. A written FOIA request creates the better trail.

Send a county request to Sandra Basler, FOIA Officer, Clinton County Courthouse, 850 Fairfax Street, Carlyle, IL 62231, or foia@clintoncosa.illinois.gov. State that the records are held by the Sheriff/Jail. Request the booking number, admission time, release or transfer time, exit type or authority, receiving agency, booking photograph, and any existing discharge property receipt. Ask for the native electronic format and a narrow date range.

Illinois FOIA ordinarily calls for a response or written denial within five business days for a noncommercial request, with a limited statutory extension or written agreement possible. It does not force staff to create a report or decide whether someone is legally free. Ask for existing fields and documents.

Clinton County Jail History Matters

The March 2024 IDOC inspection identifies a building constructed in 1966 and renovated in 1995. Its rated capacity is 53, divided as 47 male and six female beds. The inspection-day count was 46. Housing included a single detention room, 14 double rooms, and dormitories. These figures identify the facility and its scale; they do not establish a release count or schedule.

The more important local fact is boarding. The Clinton County Jail houses U.S. Marshals Service detainees and people from other counties. USMS owns no jail of its own and relies on contracted detention space. Thus, an exit from this old county building can mean return or transfer rather than release into Carlyle. The booking jurisdiction and responsible custodian should be captured before any conclusion is drawn.

Clinton County Intermittent Custody

The official jail rules expressly recognize “Weekenders, Work Release, and Sentenced Inmates.” A person in an intermittent arrangement may be outside the building during an authorized period while the sentence remains active. One sighting outside the jail, or a momentary absence from physical custody, does not prove final sentence completion.

Ask whether the booking record shows a completed discharge, a scheduled return, or an ongoing sentence arrangement. The court file can establish the sentence terms, while the jail record documents the actual movements. This distinction is especially important because Clinton County offers no public online roster whose status labels could be read from home.

Weekender

A person serving custody in scheduled intervals rather than one continuous stay.

Work release

An authorized arrangement that permits time outside custody for approved work while the sentence continues.

Discharge

Formal completion of the custodial or corrections status identified by the responsible agency.

Detainer

A request or hold that may direct transfer to another authority.

Clinton County Discharge Evidence

The inspection checks whether the jail permanently maintains an itemized, signed personal-property receipt. That record may corroborate a discharge process after a current-custody display is gone. The inspection also addresses medication documentation and community linkage for a mentally ill detainee. Health information remains restricted, but the procedures show why the custody file can contain more than an entry and exit date.

A useful release request names the fields without demanding a new narrative. Ask for the booking identifier, arresting or committing agency, admission time, exit time, release or transfer disposition, legal authority, receiving agency, and property receipt. Any exemption should be applied to protected portions while reasonably segregable public content is considered for release.

The county court record supplies the second half of the proof. A pretrial order, dismissal, sentence, probation order, or mittimus explains legal authority; the jail event establishes physical movement. The full named-person workflow is on the Clinton County released inmates search page.

Note: A court release order may coexist with another hold, so the dated jail exit and destination remain essential to confirming what occurred.

For older Clinton County Jail records, ask which approved Local Records schedule governs retention if staff report that an event record no longer exists. A website display period is not a retention period, and Illinois FOIA does not itself set how long the jail keeps a record.