Browse Union County 72-Hour Releases

Union County 72-Hour Release Access

Union County has no verified online 72-hour release view. Reviewed official jail, sheriff, and county pages provide no rolling list, window controls, release fields, publication schedule, archive period, or released-person photos. There is no hidden three-day setting on a known same-day product because no official 24-hour product was found either. The county also does not link an official sheriff release or roster app.

Start with the Union County Jail for a named person. Call 570-524-8711 and give a clear beginning and ending date and time. Ask whether the person is in local custody now and, if not, whether the jail can identify when custody ended and whether the event was community release or movement to another agency. The official page lists hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Treat the phone response as a lead and request the existing custody-ending entry when proof is needed.

Check Union County Three-Day Releases

A rolling 72-hour span is not always the same as three named calendar dates. For example, a check made partway through a day reaches back to the same time three days earlier. Write the interval before contacting the jail. This helps staff distinguish a custody event at the edge of the range and makes a later public-record request sufficiently specific.

1. Record the person's full name, known booking number, and the exact start and end of the 72-hour period.
2. Call Union County Jail to ask whether the person is currently held and, if not, what local custody-ending event is recorded.
3. Search PA SAVIN through VINELink and save the agency, facility, status wording, event time, and update time.
4. Review the Pennsylvania UJS case search for Union County court action that may explain release authority.
5. Submit a one-person request through Union County Open Records for the existing booking, custody, or release entry.

Do not ask the UJS docket to prove the jail's door time. A bail posting, dismissal, sentencing entry, probation order, or time-credit ruling supplies legal context. The jail transaction records the physical custody event. When the local entry identifies a transfer, follow the receiving agency rather than treating the court event as a community release.

For a narrow same-day question, use the Union County Released Last 24 Hours method and define that shorter window.

Note: Save the wording and timestamp from each source because the legal order, jail transaction, and notification may post at different times.

Union County 72-Hour Record Fields

There is no public feed field set to describe. Instead, ask for a named person's existing custody record and list the event fields sought. The request should not demand that the county create a custom three-day report. Union County's public-record access procedure requires a written, specific request with requester name and address, accepts in-person, mail, fax, and electronic submission, and states that no reason is required.

Ask for the record in its existing electronic form and for segregable portions if the county applies an exception. If a code appears without a plain-language meaning, seek an existing code legend or field definition. The county need not answer a questionnaire or write a new explanation. Its ordinary initial response period is five business days, subject to written extension on lawful grounds. The requester should personally prepare and send the request because the county's procedure contains an identity safeguard for AI-generated submissions.

Union County Weekend Release Checks

A three-day inquiry is useful when a person may have left late in the week or across a holiday period, but Union County publishes no weekend or holiday release schedule. No local jail policy was found that shifts releases to a fixed weekday. Do not estimate a custody result from the calendar alone. Use the actual jail transaction and the court record.

Build a timeline with separate facts. The first point may be a court order. Next may come jail processing. A PA SAVIN event can follow, then intake by another authority or a post-release supervision record. If an order is entered on one day and the jail event falls on the next, both can be correct. Describe the court entry as legal authority and the jail timestamp as the custody action.

If the person is state-sentenced, the PADOC locator applies only after state custody or parole becomes relevant. A parolee detail may show an actual Release Date from state confinement, not a county release and not a projected date. For a person tied to FCC Allenwood, use the federal system. Geography does not make a federal prisoner a county or state inmate.

Note: No published Union County weekend-release rule was found, so only the source record should be used to assign an event to the window.

Why Union County Release Gaps Matter

The Union County Jail is listed with 37 beds, and the county's 2023 adopted budget anticipated costs for holding county prisoners in other counties. That combination makes a local absence unusually hard to read. Someone may leave the Lewisburg building for placement at another facility but remain under Union County authority. Another person may be transferred to PADOC, BOP, a different county, or an agency acting on a detainer.

Ask staff to separate physical location from legal custodian. If another jail holds a Union County prisoner, obtain both the local custody information and the other facility's confirmation as appropriate. If Union County custody truly ended, ask for the destination or receiving authority recorded in the existing entry. A transfer label confirms departure from one place, not freedom from all custody.

Event terms also matter. Bond, recognizance, court order, dismissal, time served, county sentence expiration, state parole, maximum expiration, transfer, detainer, escape, and death do not describe the same outcome. Preserve the agency's exact term. A three-day page should never turn each custody-ending code into “released to the community.”

Union County Release Lag Sources

Different systems have different roles and refresh patterns. PA SAVIN receives custody-change events from participating county jails, state prisons, and state parole. It is the closest statewide bridge when a person no longer appears in a present-custody display, but it is not a permanent Union County archive. A missing result remains inconclusive.

The UJS portal can reveal magisterial and Common Pleas events. Search Union County after beginning with enough name detail to avoid a wrong match. A docket can explain bail, disposition, sentence credit, probation, or a later order. It may not carry the physical release time, and filing-office entries can lag. For a named-person route across all custodians, the Union County release search and record process explains how county, state, federal, and immigration records differ.

The official jail page pictured below is the local contact fallback required for a three-day inquiry. It does not display a released-person list.

Open the official Union County Jail page to confirm its current contact information.

This capture supports where to begin the local check while also showing why a separate source record is needed for a named release.

Union County Release Status Comparison

A final finding should name the authority and outcome, not merely report that a name was absent. The comparison keeps the most common routes distinct.

A sound statement ties the result to its date: the county entry records a transfer, PA SAVIN reports a custody change, or a later state record shows release to parole. This prevents a three-day window from blurring several stages into one event.