Check ICE Detention Releases

ICE Release Paths From Fentress

ICE detention is federal civil immigration custody. It is separate from a Fentress County criminal jail stay, TDOC prison custody, and BOP imprisonment. A county record may label its own handoff as a release because the person left the county facility. If ICE accepted custody, the transaction was a transfer from the person’s perspective. The receiving agency’s record must be checked before saying the person returned to the community.

No official ICE detention facility was identified inside Fentress County, and the research found no official 287(g) jail agreement for the county. Those findings prevent any claim that the local jail is an ICE facility. They do not mean that a person can never be transferred from the county to federal immigration custody elsewhere. The local release sheet should identify ICE, a hold, or another receiving agency when that information exists.

Search ICE Release Records

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System, or ODLS, offers two routes. One uses a nine-digit A-number and country of birth. A shorter A-number must be padded with leading zeroes. The other uses exact name, country of birth, and an optional birth date. Spelling and country information must match the record closely.

Use a careful sequence:

1. Obtain the county release or transfer record and confirm that ICE is actually named.
2. Search by A-number and country of birth when a verified A-number is available.
3. Otherwise use the exact biographical spelling, country of birth, and birth date when known.
4. Compare the result to the correct person and note the locator’s date and status.
5. If no reliable match appears, call the ICE information line and use the immigration case or representative channel as appropriate.

ICE Sixty-Day Release Window

The most important limit for an ICE release search is its short public window. ICE’s official detention resource says ODLS includes people currently detained and those released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. Once that period passes, a former result may no longer be visible. Later absence cannot establish what happened or when. Preserve a matched event and seek the underlying agency record when durable proof is needed.

ODLS excludes minors from public results. It can also miss a person during recent processing or when the identifying data is entered incorrectly. Search failure should prompt a check of exact spelling, date of birth, country of birth, and A-number format. It should not prompt a claim that the person is free. The Fentress County jail record remains the source for the local handoff, while ICE owns the later custody event.

The 60-day rule applies to release from ICE custody, not to the earlier date on which Fentress County transferred the person. Those may be separate events days or weeks apart. Preserve the county departure time, the ICE admission or locator result, and the later ICE release event with their own agency labels. That sequence can show continuous custody even when the county system uses “released” for its handoff.

A-number

An immigration registration number used to identify a person in the federal system.

ODLS

ICE’s public Online Detainee Locator System.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another agency to take or maintain custody.

Civil detention

Immigration custody that is distinct from a criminal sentence.

ICE Detainee Search Fields

The two search modes are designed for different available facts. An A-number is usually the strongest input, but it must be formatted as nine digits and paired with country of birth. A biographical search depends on exact name and country of birth, with birth date available to narrow the result. Do not guess an identifier or substitute a county booking number.

Because the manifest’s ICE capture failed official access, no image is used here. The live official locator is the proper source, and a page about another custodian would not be an appropriate visual substitute.

ICE Release Contact Details

The ICE Detention Reporting and Information Line is the documented telephone fallback. It can help when the locator does not resolve the question, especially after search details have been checked. Language assistance is available. The line’s published schedule is Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern.

Have the correct name, date of birth, country of birth, A-number when known, and the Fentress County transfer details ready. The telephone channel does not change the need to verify identity. An immigration representative or the relevant case channel may be necessary for case-specific legal information.

Record the date and time of the call, the name of the agency channel, the identifier used, and the exact response. A telephone answer is easier to reconcile with ODLS when these facts are kept. If ICE confirms release, ask what existing record documents the event and whether another custodian is shown. If staff cannot provide case detail, the locator, immigration case record, and authorized representative route remain separate channels rather than interchangeable substitutes.

Fentress Jail to ICE Records

The county jail’s transaction and the ICE record are two halves of the handoff. Ask the Sheriff’s Department for the existing booking and release record, including release date and time, release type or authority, and destination or receiving agency. The official Fentress County website provides no public release archive. If the jail cannot answer by phone, use the county public-records form for inspection or copies.

The Fentress County Circuit Court Clerk can supply the local judgment, dismissal, bond order, sentence, or docket event. A court outcome does not show that ICE declined or accepted custody. Likewise, ICE status does not explain the county criminal disposition. Both records may be needed to understand why the local jail episode ended and what followed.

A written county request should identify the named booking, approximate dates, and existing destination or receiving-agency field. The Tennessee process does not require creation of a transfer narrative that the sheriff does not maintain. Asking for the actual release sheet and transfer entry gives the custodian a defined record to locate. Inspection and copy requests may follow different cost rules, so select the intended method on the county form.

The Fentress County Jail release-record route gives the local address, lobby hours, and request sequence. Use that path only for the county event. ODLS and ICE contacts control the immigration custody question.

ICE, BOP, and USMS Releases

Federal systems are not interchangeable. BOP’s locator covers federal prison records from 1982 forward and may show a past release date or released status. USMS manages many federal prisoners before BOP commitment but offers no public released-prisoner locator. ICE runs civil immigration detention and uses ODLS with the 60-day released-person window. A person can move from one system to another, making a single “released” label incomplete.

When BOP shows released and the facts point to ICE, search ODLS next. When a Fentress record names USMS, use the federal docket and an agency-record request because ODLS and BOP may not cover the current stage. Preserve the exact agency, identifier, date label, and retrieval date from every system. The strongest evidence is the releasing agency’s transaction paired with any receiving-agency admission.

VINE is not the replacement for these federal systems. Tennessee VINE can report state and participating county custody events, but federal BOP and ICE questions belong in their own locators. A Fentress jail alert can be a timely notice that local custody ended. It cannot establish the receiving federal result or extend ODLS’s released-person window.

Note: One custodian’s release can be the next custodian’s admission on the same day.