Elba ADOC Release Records

Where Elba Releases Go

The Alabama Department of Corrections lists Elba Community Based Facility and Community Work Center at 1620 Boswell Street, Elba, AL 36323, phone (334) 897-5738. The ADOC facility page identifies it as a Community-Based Facility/Community Work Center in Coffee County, in the Southern Region, with minimum custody classifications and a male population. The research capture also notes that ADOC lists the facility as having opened in June 1976.

That ADOC status controls the release path. A person released from Elba is not a Coffee County Jail release and should not be searched through a county jail recent-release list. The person is in state custody while at Elba, even though the facility is physically in Coffee County. A release may mean end of sentence, parole, mandatory supervision, probation-related release, community placement, transfer inside ADOC, or another correctional event shown in state records. If the person was first booked into Coffee County Jail before sentencing, there may also be a separate county jail transfer record, but the Elba release itself is an ADOC event.

While the person is still incarcerated, the first public online check is the ADOC inmate search at doc.alabama.gov/inmatesearch.aspx. ADOC says the AIS number is the fastest exact match and takes precedence over name fields. Name searches can use first name, last name, or both, and beginning-of-name searches may return multiple matches. ADOC displays a maximum of 50 records at a time, so common names may require an AIS number or more exact spelling.

After release, the online path changes. ADOC states that its public search contains currently incarcerated inmates and that historical data is not available online. A person who was released or discharged from Elba may disappear from the public inmate search. That absence does not prove the release date, and it does not identify whether ABPP supervision, a court condition, another agency hold, or a registry obligation remains. Use ADOC Central Records, ABPP, Alabama VNS where eligible, and the sentencing court record to confirm the state release.

Confirm an ADOC Release

Start with the ADOC search only if the person may still be in state custody. Search by AIS number when available. If using a name, try exact spellings and narrower combinations. Review the facility, sentence information, custody fields, and ADOC release-date vocabulary. Alabama records often use "Minimum Release Date" for the earliest scheduled release to probation or end of sentence and "Parole Consideration Date" for the tentative parole-review timing set by the Parole Board. Those are not the same field.

If the person no longer appears in ADOC search results, move to records and supervision channels. ADOC's contact page is doc.alabama.gov/contact.aspx. The research identifies ADOC Central Records at 1-334-353-9738, main number 1-334-353-3883, toll-free 1-855-WE-R-ADOC, and mailing address 301 S. Ripley Street, P.O. Box 301501, Montgomery, AL 36130-1501. ADOC Administrative Regulation 023 describes written public-records requests, Form 023-A, the public.records@doc.alabama.gov email route, Alabama residency requirements, and a $20 non-refundable processing fee plus actual costs where applicable.

For a supervised release, use the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles. The local Coffee County office is the Enterprise Field Office at 1135 East McKinnon Street, New Brockton, phone 334.347.4364. ABPP may be the better source when the person has left Elba on parole, probation-related supervision, mandatory supervision, delinquency, revocation, or another supervision status. The statewide ABPP site at paroles.alabama.gov also provides scheduled parole hearings, parole results, hearing minutes, cancellations, and absconder alerts.

For notification, separate VINELink and Alabama VNS. VINELink Alabama is available at vinelink.com/state/AL with Alabama VINE phone 1-877-846-3425. Alabama VNS at victims.alabama.gov is specifically limited by its own public text to offenders convicted in Alabama and sentenced to ADOC custody. That makes VNS relevant to Elba state-custody releases, but not to a Coffee County Jail pretrial release that never entered ADOC.

Elba Records and Contact

The facility contact is useful for facility-specific routing, but a released state-prison record may require ADOC central records rather than a direct facility response. Use the facility phone for immediate facility questions and ADOC Central Records/public records for copies or historical release confirmation after the person leaves the current public inmate search. If supervision is the issue, use ABPP rather than asking Elba to confirm active parole or probation reporting.

When requesting an ADOC release or discharge record, include the AIS number if known, full legal name, date of birth, approximate release date, facility name, sentencing county if known, and any court case number. If the question involves jail credit from a Coffee County sentence, the Coffee County Circuit Clerk may be needed because ADOC defines jail credit as time spent in county jail before sentencing, prepared by the circuit clerk of the sentencing county.

Court records remain important even for an ADOC release. The Coffee County Circuit Clerk page is coffee.alacourt.gov/circuit-clerk-amy-l-reeves/, and Coffee County trial-court records can be searched through Alacourt at pa.alacourt.com/frmDocketListsearch.aspx?LOC=58. The court file may show sentence date, jail credit, split sentence, probation order, revocation, or commitment order, all of which can affect the state release timeline.

About the Elba Facility

Elba is one of the details that makes Coffee County release research easy to misunderstand. Someone searching for "Coffee County released inmate" may mean a person released from the county jail in New Brockton, or a person released from the ADOC Elba facility in Elba. Those records are not interchangeable. The jail path is sheriff, jail, court, and local booking/release record. The Elba path is ADOC, ABPP, VNS, and sentencing court.

The ADOC facility page identifies Elba as minimum custody, with custody types that include minimum-community and minimum-out categories. In plain language, this is state custody with a community-based/work-center function. It is not a public county roster and not a municipal jail. The public search tool connected to Elba is ADOC's statewide current-inmate search, not a Coffee County website feed.

The facility's June 1976 opening date is a useful local anchor because it shows Elba is an established state correctional presence in Coffee County. That presence does not make every Coffee County release an ADOC release. A county defendant who posts bond from Coffee County Jail may never appear in ADOC. A state inmate at Elba may have no current Coffee County jail booking. A person transferred from jail to ADOC may have both a local transfer record and a state custody record.

Release Date Fields

For Elba, the phrase "release date lookup" should be translated into Alabama's ADOC field language. ADOC defines Minimum Release Date as the earliest scheduled date an inmate can be released to probation or end of sentence. ADOC warns that the date can change if discipline removes good time or if the circuit clerk sends new cases or changes the current sentence. ADOC defines Parole Consideration Date separately as the tentative date set by the Parole Board.

Good-time and jail-credit issues are not solved by guessing from the offense name. Alabama correctional incentive time depends on classification, statutory exclusions, sentence length, discipline, and whether the person is in state, county, or municipal custody. For a Coffee County sentence, jail credit comes from the sentencing county's circuit clerk. If the public ADOC record seems inconsistent, preserve the AIS number and case identifiers, then verify through ADOC records and the court record instead of relying on a stale search result.