Find Coffee County Release Dates

Coffee County Release Date Meaning

A projected release date is not one single Alabama field. In ADOC records, the key sentence field is called Minimum Release Date. ADOC defines it as the earliest scheduled date an inmate can be released to probation or end of sentence. ADOC also defines Parole Consideration Date as the tentative date set by the Parole Board. Those two dates answer different questions. One concerns the sentence calculation. The other concerns parole review timing.

A county jail case works differently. A person held at the Coffee County Jail before trial may be released by bond, recognizance, dismissal, court order, transfer, time served, or another hold. There may be no projected date in a public search because the next event is controlled by the judge, bond status, warrant status, or a receiving agency. A short local sentence may have a release date, but it is calculated through the jail and court sentence, not through an ADOC web result unless the person entered state custody.

Find Coffee County Release Dates

The first step is to identify which agency controls the date. Coffee County has both a county jail in New Brockton and an ADOC community-based facility in Elba. A person physically located in Coffee County may still be in state custody. That distinction decides whether the search starts with the jail, the court, ADOC, ABPP, or a notification system.

1. For a county jail case, call Coffee County Jail at (334) 894-6200 and ask for release date, release reason, and any hold or transfer notation.
2. Check the Coffee County court case through Alacourt's Coffee County docket search for bond, disposition, sentence, warrant, and jail-credit entries.
3. For a state inmate, search the ADOC inmate search by AIS number first. ADOC says the AIS number takes precedence and is the fastest exact match.
4. Read ADOC's Minimum Release Date, Parole Consideration Date, Jail Credit, sentence type, and facility fields while the person remains in current custody.
5. If parole timing is involved, review scheduled parole hearings and ABPP parole results.

ADOC search results are current-custody only, and ADOC states historical data is not available online. If the person has already been discharged from ADOC, the public web search may no longer show a record. That absence should not be read as proof of release without another source. Use ADOC Central Records, ABPP supervision information, VNS notice if eligible, and the court file to confirm the final status.

The Coffee County released inmate search route is broader than a date lookup. It adds jail, sheriff app, court, ADOC, parole/probation, and records-request channels when a date field is missing or stale.

ADOC Date Terms

Alabama's public terms are precise. Minimum Release Date is the earliest scheduled release date to probation or end of sentence. Parole Consideration Date is the tentative date set by the Parole Board. Jail Credit is time spent in county jail before sentencing, and ADOC says the sentencing county's circuit clerk prepares it. Type refers to consecutive or concurrent sentence structure, which affects how multiple sentences are counted.

For Coffee County, jail credit questions often point back to the Circuit Clerk. The Enterprise office phone is (334) 347-2519, and the Elba office phone is (334) 897-2954. If a person spent time in Coffee County Jail before transfer to ADOC and the ADOC calculation seems wrong, the correction path starts with the sentencing record and jail-credit entry. ADOC cannot calculate proper jail credit without the court clerk's record.

ADOC's definitions page is the source that distinguishes Minimum Release Date from Parole Consideration Date for Alabama release-date questions.

That terminology is the reason a Coffee County page should translate the common phrase projected release date into Alabama's actual fields instead of inventing a generic label.

Coffee County Good-Time Rules

Alabama Correctional Incentive Time is governed by Code of Alabama Section 14-9-41. The statute sets class-based earning rates. Class I can earn 30 days for each 30 days actually served. Class II can earn 15 days for each 30 days actually served. Class III can earn 5 days for each 30 days actually served. Class IV earns no correctional incentive time and is often day-for-day or flat time.

The statute also lists exclusions. A prisoner may not receive correctional incentive time for a Class A felony, a life or death sentence, a sentence over 15 years, a conviction for a crime causing death by deadly weapon, or a sex offense involving a child. The statute permits forfeiture for rule violations and other specified serious conduct. The public should not assume every sentence earns good time at the same rate.

Section 14-9-41 is also important for county jail sentences. It says ADOC administers the section for state penal institutions, the sheriff administers it for prisoners in county jail, and the chief of police administers it for municipal jail. So a Coffee County Jail sentence release-date question belongs with the jail, sheriff, and court order. It is not calculated by the ADOC inmate search unless the person is in ADOC custody.

The Alabama correctional incentive time statute gives the earned-time framework used to explain why a minimum release date may be earlier than the full sentence end date.

The statute should be read with the sentence order because charge class, sentence length, conduct, and custody setting can all change the release calculation.

Coffee County Parole Dates

Parole consideration is not a release date. Code of Alabama Section 15-22-28 governs when a prisoner is considered for parole. For prisoners receiving correctional incentive time, terms of five years or less are scheduled on the current docket. Terms over five and up to ten years are scheduled about 18 months before the minimum release date. Terms over ten and up to fifteen years are scheduled about two years and six months before the minimum release date.

The statute also has an 85-percent-or-15-years parole-consideration rule for specified Class A felonies committed on or after March 21, 2001. For other prisoners, initial consideration is tied to one-third of the sentence or ten years, whichever is less. That is parole review timing. It does not mean every Alabama prisoner is released at 85 percent, and it does not replace the minimum release date calculation.

For Coffee County, use ABPP when the question is a parole hearing, reset date, result, special condition, or post-release supervision. ABPP's current-year results page states that special conditions are in the minutes for the hearing date and that a reset date is only the first month and year when future docket placement may be considered.

Why Coffee County Dates Change

A projected or minimum date can move for reasons that do not show in a simple name search. A new court order can change the sentence. A circuit clerk can send updated jail credit. ADOC discipline can revoke good time. A parole case can be denied, reset, granted, rescinded, or later revoked. Another county, state, federal, or immigration hold can keep a person in custody after a local release event.

Note: A release from Coffee County Jail can be a transfer to ADOC, ICE, federal custody, or another county rather than a final release from custody.

Confirm Coffee County Release Date

Confirmation depends on the source of the date. For a county jail release, use Coffee County Jail, the sheriff app if its jail information function is active, and the court docket. For an ADOC sentence, use ADOC while the person is in current custody, then ADOC records and ABPP if the person is released to supervision. For a state-prison notification, use Alabama VNS or VINELink within their limits.

The VINE Inmate Check path helps when the question is a future custody-change notice. Alabama VNS is only for offenders convicted in Alabama and sentenced to ADOC custody. It does not replace the Coffee County Jail for a pretrial release, bond release, or county-only sentence. If VNS does not cover the case, the jail and court record remain the local confirmation path.