Find Alcorn Regional Facility Releases

Where ACRCF Releases Go

Sheriff Ben Caldwell leads the county office that operates the regional facility and keeps the local jail docket.

Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility can send people down several very different paths. A county detainee may leave for the community on bond, after dismissal, under a court order, or when a local sentence ends. Another person may be handed to MDOC, a different county, the U.S. Marshals Service, or another lawful custodian. That handoff is a transfer, not a community release. A person already serving an MDOC sentence may move to another state unit, enter parole or earned-release supervision, or receive a final discharge.

The sheriff jail docket is the durable county record. Mississippi Code § 19-25-63 requires it to show how long a prisoner was held, how released or discharged, and the warrant that authorized release or the penitentiary officer’s receipt after a prison transfer. For an MDOC prisoner, the state inmate search, parolee search, time sheet, and discharge certificate answer different parts of the question. The Alcorn County released-inmate search guide explains how those records fit together without treating a missing roster name as proof.

Confirm an ACRCF Release

Start with the person’s full name and an approximate booking or custody date. Ask the sheriff whether ACRCF held the person as a county detainee, an MDOC prisoner, or for another authority. Then request the matching jail-docket entry. A useful request asks for the admission and release date and time, release or transfer type, releasing order, destination, booking number, and transfer receipt when one exists. The docket can distinguish bond from time served and community release from transfer.

1. Identify the authority. Confirm whether the booking belonged to Alcorn County, MDOC, a city case, or another custodian.
2. Check the right live system. Use the MDOC inmate search only for a person in state custody and the separate parolee search for expected parole.
3. Read the disposition. Do not infer release from a blank field, removed profile, or changed location.
4. Obtain event proof. Request the sheriff docket entry for county custody or the MDOC discharge certificate and time sheet for state custody.

A court order explains legal authority but may not show when the physical exit occurred. Pair it with the docket timestamp. Likewise, MDOC calls its public date “Tentative Release Date.” That is a projection, not proof that release happened. If the public location or tentative date is blank, the only sound statement is that the field is blank and agency confirmation is still needed.

ACRCF Release Record Contacts

The current MDOC facility page lists Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility at 2839 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, and 662-286-7085. An older publicly listed facility line is 662-286-7194. Call to confirm which line now routes custody questions. Documentary county proof belongs with the Alcorn County Sheriff at 2833 South Harper Road, Corinth, MS 38834, phone 662-286-5521 and fax 662-286-7773. No official facility hours or county release-record fee schedule was verified, so call before visiting and request a cost estimate.

Label the request by custodian. Ask the facility about immediate location and routing, then ask the sheriff’s records custodian for the county jail docket. For an MDOC sentence, use the MDOC public-records channel for the discharge certificate, time sheet, release type, and releasable transfer material. Electronic delivery, an advance fee estimate, and redaction of exempt details can keep a request focused.

ACRCF Prison and Jail

The official 2025 PREA audit describes ACRCF as a “Prison / Jail.” The Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department operates it under an MDOC contract, with MDOC monitoring. That mixed role is the key local fact. County pretrial records and state sentence records may refer to the same building, yet the release proof comes from different systems. The audit describes medium and minimum non-community custody. MDOC’s 2023 annual report says the regional facility opened in June 2011.

Those audit figures describe beds and population, not annual releases. They cannot be converted into a release count or turnover rate. A former Alcorn County Community Work Center is also not an active facility. MDOC documented its closure, and the current community-work-center map omits Alcorn. A search should therefore stay with ACRCF, the sheriff, and MDOC rather than sending a request to the closed center.

ACRCF Harper Road Custodians

Three local justice offices sit close together on South Harper Road. The sheriff is at 2833, Corinth Police and Municipal Court are at 2837, and ACRCF is at 2839. Similar addresses can cause a request for “the jail” to reach the wrong desk. The police department holds city incident material. Municipal Court holds its own case record. The sheriff keeps the county jail docket, while the facility handles immediate custody routing.

Use the arresting agency, booking number, court, and legal custodian in every request. If Corinth Police made the arrest, ask whether the person was cited and released, held briefly, or delivered to ACRCF. If delivered, the sheriff docket should show commitment and disposition. If no county booking occurred, the municipal case may be the only local case path. This custodian check saves time and guards against treating movement between neighboring offices as a release.

ACRCF County and State Proof

County and state searches provide different evidence. For county custody, request the complete jail-docket history. It can include the warrant or mittimus, authority, receipt date, cause, length of confinement, release method, and release warrant or transfer receipt. The issuing court can then confirm bond, dismissal, sentence, or another public disposition. A live roster is useful only for current presence and may drop a person after movement.

For state custody, search MDOC by first name, last name, or MDOC ID. The record can show a current unit, sentence facts, and Tentative Release Date. Next check the parolee search if supervised release is expected. Presence there supports community supervision but does not equal final discharge. A fully discharged person may appear in neither public interface because MDOC has no clearly labeled historical discharge locator. Request the discharge certificate and time sheet when the event itself must be confirmed.

ACRCF Release Timing Limits

No official ACRCF gate-release time, property pickup process, release fee, transport plan, annual release count, or county good-time policy was verified. Avoid filling those gaps with rules from another jail. For a planned MDOC release, the assigned case manager gives the inmate the actual date and verifies travel plans. MDOC’s family guide says processing may take 30 to 45 days and requires a discharge certificate before release. Eligibility dates for parole or earned-release supervision are not promises of exit.

A family member or friend can ask precise questions: Has an actual release order been received? Is a detainer blocking community release? Is the event a transfer? Which office will issue the certificate? What identity or pickup steps has the facility approved? Staff may limit what they disclose by phone. The public record remains the safer proof. Record the date, time, office, and exact terms used, then seek the written event record from the responsible custodian.

Older ACRCF Release Records

A removed online profile does not show that the underlying Alcorn record was destroyed. Mississippi Department of Archives and History publishes local-government retention schedules with legal force. The sheriff's statutory jail docket also passes to each successor sheriff. For an older ACRCF booking, ask for the docket entry by full name, approximate dates, and booking number if known. Request the admission, disposition, release warrant, or transfer receipt rather than an old screen image.

Court records may preserve the legal result after a custody display changes. Circuit and county docket books, minute books, abstracts of judgment, and judgment rolls are treated as permanent in the state court chart. Convicted circuit or county criminal files are generally retained twenty years after the sentence is served, subject to the exact series and approval rules. Other closed files use different periods.

Retention is not a promise of unrestricted access. Expunction, sealing, lawful redaction, litigation holds, and record-series rules can change production. Still, a vendor's expired page is not proof that the sheriff, clerk, or MDOC lacks the event record. Ask each custodian about its own stage of the custody history.