Find Union County Released Inmates

Understanding Union County Inmate Release

“Released” describes the end of one agency's custody event. It does not always mean unrestricted freedom. Union County Jail may release a person on bond, recognizance, court order, dismissal, time served, sentence expiration, or probation. Staff may instead transfer the person to another county, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, federal authorities, or a custodian acting on a detainer. The exact source label and destination should be preserved.

“Discharge” often refers to the later end of a sentence or supervision, though agencies do not use every term the same way. A parole release ends state confinement and begins supervised release in the community. It does not end the sentence. Probation is a court-ordered form of community supervision and may follow county confinement or stand as the sentence itself. A transfer ends custody at one location but begins or continues custody elsewhere.

Union County Release Record Fields

The county's public website does not reveal every field maintained by its jail system. A focused request should seek the existing booking, custody, or release record for one named event. Do not ask staff to create a custom report or answer a series of questions. The useful fields are those that identify the person, the custody transaction, the authority, and the destination.

These are fields to request, not a claim that Union County maintains or must disclose each one. If the response gives a code without a plain meaning, ask for an existing code legend or field definition. A custody ledger is stronger evidence of the physical event than a court order alone. The order can explain why release was authorized, but the jail entry shows whether staff executed it and whether another hold changed the result.

Request Union County Release Records

Union County's formal Right-to-Know destination is the Open Records office at the Government Center, 155 North 15th Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837. The office lists 570-524-3894, fax 570-524-3889, sgreene@unionco.org, and location hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The county Right-to-Know page links the form, procedure, and policy.

1. Identify one person and one defined custody event. Include an approximate booking or release range and booking number if known.
2. Ask for the existing booking, custody, or release entry and name the fields needed. Request the booking photo as a separate item.
3. Ask for the record in its existing electronic form and for segregable public portions if an exemption applies.
4. Provide the requester's name and address. Submit electronically, in person, by mail, or by fax through an accepted county channel.
5. Keep the request, delivery proof, response, fee estimate, and any notice extending the response time.

The January 2025 procedure requires a written, sufficiently specific request. It does not require a reason, and the county need not create or compile a new record. The requester should personally prepare and submit the request because the procedure contains an identity safeguard for AI-generated submissions. The ordinary initial response is due within five business days. A qualifying extension must be given in writing.

Check the current schedule when filing. A fee does not guarantee disclosure, and a waiver may be possible. If proof of origin matters, ask whether certification is available, but remember that certification does not expand what the record says.

Union County Release Record Access

Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law, 65 P.S. §§ 67.101 through 67.3104, presumes state and local agency records public unless an exemption, privilege, other law, or court order applies. Section 901 provides the ordinary five-business-day initial response. Section 902 permits extensions on qualifying grounds, generally up to 30 calendar days. Section 703 requires enough specificity, and Section 1307 addresses fees.

The presumption does not make every jail field open. Section 708 includes public-safety, personal-security, law-enforcement, criminal-investigation, confidential-source, and personal-identification protections. The Criminal History Record Information Act may also apply. An agency should consider separating public portions, but it need not create a new rolling release list, perform research, or answer a questionnaire.

Local online retention is not published because Union County offers no public roster or release archive. The Right-to-Know Law does not require an agency to keep a record longer than its governing schedule. Call promptly and request the existing record. Disappearance from the web does not prove release, destruction, acquittal, sealing, or expungement.

Expungement under 18 Pa.C.S. § 9122 and limited access under § 9122.1 can change visibility. Juvenile, sealed, and restricted cases may not appear publicly. An expungement order affects qualifying records; it is not proof of the time a person left the jail. When a source becomes restricted, stale copies should not be used to rebuild it.

Search Union County Released Inmates

Start with the likely custodian, not the closest building. Union County combines one small county jail with a large federal correctional presence at Allenwood. A person “in Union County” may be a county detainee in Lewisburg or a federal prisoner at one of three Allenwood institutions. Pennsylvania's state locator covers state-sentenced inmates and parolees, but it does not cover a purely local jail stay.

1. Call Union County Jail at 570-524-8711 for a local case. Ask whether the person remains held and, if not, whether staff can identify release versus transfer.
2. Check PA SAVIN/VINELink for a named person and save the event wording, source agency, and timestamp.
3. Search both Magisterial District Judge and Common Pleas records through the statewide UJS portal for bail, disposition, sentence, credit, probation, or later orders.
4. Use PADOC for a state-sentenced inmate or parolee, BOP for a sentenced federal prisoner, and ICE only when a record points to immigration custody.
5. Obtain the underlying custody-ending record when the exact date, time, type, or destination matters.

The Union County parole and probation record path explains how to distinguish state parole from county probation after release.

Verify Union County Inmate Release

The strongest evidence is the releasing custodian's transaction. For Union County Jail, that is an existing custody-ending entry. For PADOC, use the release or sentence-status record and a Board Action when parole matters. For BOP, pair the locator with the agency's release record. For ICE, the locator has a narrow recent-release window and should be paired with the case or custody record.

A PA SAVIN event is useful second-tier corroboration because it repeats a custody change from a participating source. It remains derivative. Save its agency, facility, event time, exact wording, and alert time. Court records form a third tier: they explain bail, dismissal, sentence, time credit, probation, and legal orders, but may not show when release processing finished.

A later parolee or probation record is a post-release trace. It can support release to supervision but does not establish jail door time. Absence from a list, an undated screenshot, or a social post is the weakest evidence. Use it only to choose the next official source.

Time served

A custody outcome based on credit satisfying the ordered confinement term.

Detainer

A request or authority that can lead to continued custody or transfer after another case permits release.

Parole

Conditional release from state prison while the sentence continues under supervision.

Probation

A court-ordered community sentence managed through the county system.

Expungement

A legal process restricting qualifying criminal-history records; it is not itself a release event.

PADOC Union County Release Lookup

The PADOC locator service is updated daily and covers Pennsylvania state-sentenced inmates and parolees. Search by inmate or parole number for the best match. Otherwise use last and first name, then narrow by county, location, age, date of birth, sex, or citizenship. Results are capped, so broad searches may need more detail.

An inmate detail can show Inmate Number, Current Location, Committing County, a photo, and Last Updated Time. “Committing County” identifies the case source, not current residence. A parolee detail can show Parole Number, Release Date, Permanent Location, last update, and sometimes a Wanted: Parole Absconder flag. That Release Date means release from state confinement to parole, not final discharge.

The official locator shown below supports searches for state inmates and parolees. It does not include county-only inmates and has no public projected, minimum, or maximum date field.

Absence is inconclusive. The person may never have been state sentenced, may fall outside public coverage, may have been searched incorrectly, or may no longer be retained in the public view. Ask PADOC for the sentence-status or discharge record when the locator is insufficient.

Union County Release Court Records

Union and Snyder Counties share Pennsylvania's 17th Judicial District. The statewide UJS participant search should be checked at both the Magisterial District Judge and Common Pleas levels. An MDJ record may show preliminary arraignment, bail, a hearing, or commitment. Common Pleas can show disposition, sentence, credit, probation, dismissal, and later orders.

The Union County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts keeps local criminal filings at 103 South Second Street in Lewisburg. The office lists 570-524-8751, dmiller@unionco.org, and hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The portal often gives docket entries rather than every document image. Ask the Clerk for the filed order or certified copy when the entry alone does not explain release authority.

The manifest image comes from Pennsylvania's case-information service and shows the statewide court route used for Union County cases.

A court order and jail timestamp should remain separate. A Friday release order may be followed by later jail processing. Likewise, bail posted in one case does not defeat another warrant or detainer. Build the chronology, name each source, and avoid claiming a physical release time from a legal entry alone.

Union County Release Alerts

PA SAVIN is Pennsylvania's VINELink service. Official instructions say county jails, state prisons, and state parole contribute custody information. Select Pennsylvania, search by name or identifier, open the correct detail, and compare the facility and identity fields. “Released” means the contributing agency says its custody ended. A transfer or movement event does not mean return to the community.

Notifications may be delivered by phone, text, email, or app. Registration uses Get Notified, Add, a delivery method and contact point, then a four-digit PIN. A telephone alert is acknowledged by entering the PIN followed by #. PA SAVIN lists 866-972-7284 and TTY 866-847-1298 with around-the-clock operator help.

VINE is not a permanent county archive, and events can lag the source transaction. Save the status, source agency, and timestamp. Then call Union County Jail or PADOC for the underlying release or transfer record. It also does not replace BOP for the Allenwood federal facilities.

Getting Home After Union County Release

Union County's Need a Ride? page points residents toward rabbittransit paratransit and Stop Hopper services. These are transportation leads to check after release. The county page does not establish a jail-door stop, guaranteed pickup, eligibility for a particular rider, schedule, or same-day service.

Confirm the custody event before making a pickup plan. Ask which exit or destination applies and whether the person is leaving for the community or another authority. If transportation is needed, contact the named service directly for current eligibility, coverage, booking rules, and times. Do not assume that a court's release order fixes the hour when jail processing will finish.

Short county stays and transfers make timing uncertain. A support person should rely on direct confirmation from the jail and the transportation provider, not a missing online name. This local route is practical, but it remains separate from the legal release record.

Union County Release Reentry Support

Union County Probation links Susquehanna Valley Mediation's prison-reentry service. It offers free, voluntary, participant-directed mediation before, during, and after release for returning people and their loved ones or support networks. The work focuses on conversations, expectations, relationships, and conflict rather than changing a sentence or supervision decision.

The service covers Union, Snyder, and Northumberland Counties. It lists reentry@svmediation.org and 272-231-8847, and its June 2025 guided checklist is tailored to the area. Mediation does not confirm custody, replace probation reporting, or alter parole conditions. It is a local support option once the official release and supervision route are known.

That distinction keeps records and support in their proper roles. A jail entry establishes the county event. A parole or probation record identifies supervision. A voluntary mediation service can help people plan communication and expectations after release.

Union County Release Facilities

Union County Jail is the only official county correctional institution identified. PADOC's inspection schedule lists 37 beds at 103 South Second Street in Lewisburg. The small capacity and documented county spending for out-of-county prisoner housing make a missing local result especially ambiguous. Ask both who physically housed the person and which authority held legal custody.

Local administration also changes. A 2023 county budget described a jail leadership reorganization involving the Sheriff and Warden role. The current staff page names Ryan Boatman as Warden, Margaret Oberlin as administrative assistant, and Brad Bennage as Records Sergeant. Use the current page for present contacts and the budget only as dated history.

• Union County Jail: county custody may end in direct release, probation, transfer, or another detainer.
• Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood: the BOP administrative umbrella for the three local federal institutions.
• FCI Allenwood Low: a low-security federal institution searched through BOP.
• FCI Allenwood Medium: a medium-security federal institution searched through BOP.
• USP Allenwood: a high-security federal penitentiary searched through BOP and federal records.

No State Correctional Institution appears in PADOC's Union County directory sweep. No authoritative source reviewed identified Union County Jail as an ICE detention facility or 287(g) partner. Those absence findings should not be stretched beyond the sources.

Allenwood Union County Federal Releases

FCC Allenwood gives Union County an unusually large federal footprint. Search the BOP inmate locator by register number when possible or by exact name with age, race, and sex. It covers federal inmates released from 1982 forward and returns name, register number, age, race, sex, Release Date, and Location or status.

A future Release Date is projected. A past date and no facility means BOP custody ended on that date. RELEASED or Not in BOP Custody is agency-specific, so federal supervised release or another custodian may follow. UNKNOWN means the confinement term is undetermined. IN TRANSIT means movement, not release. A Community Corrections Management listing may indicate a halfway-house or community-corrections stage.

BOP's Notice of Release and Arrival can distinguish release to the community from release to a detainer and may include release method, destination, supervising or detaining authority, proposed residence, and reporting details. A federal pretrial person held by USMS may never appear as a sentenced BOP inmate. Use PACER, the Middle District USMS, or the known custodian for that case.

Union County Release Detainers

Use ICE only when a particular record identifies immigration custody or a detainer. The Online Detainee Locator accepts an A-number and country of birth, or exact name and birth information. Official guidance says it covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. After that window, disappearance proves no outcome.

An immigration detainer asks a custodian to notify ICE and maintain custody for up to 48 hours beyond when the person would otherwise be released so ICE can assume custody. ICE describes detainers as requests. A Union County record stating “released to ICE” would mark the end of county custody and a transfer to possible immigration custody, not a return to the community.

The county research found no official basis to describe the jail as an ICE contract site. Do not search ICE merely because a person was held locally. First obtain the custody entry or other record that makes the federal immigration path relevant.

Union County Jail Policy Meetings

Union County publicly lists Prison Board meetings through its meeting calendar. The calendar provides Government Center meeting information, Zoom viewing, agendas, and public-comment procedures. It can help residents follow jail policy, contracts, and operational changes over time.

This is not a route to a named person's release record. An individual custody event belongs with the jail, court, or receiving authority, subject to access rules. A public meeting may address broad policy without disclosing confidential case information. Use the calendar for institutional oversight and the records channels for the specific event.

Keeping those purposes apart improves accuracy. Policy can change, staff roles can change, and old directory information can go stale. The current official jail and county pages should control present contact details, while dated budgets and meeting records provide historical context.