Southeast Alabama Court Services

Community Corrections Release Path

ADOC lists Southeast Alabama Court Services as the community-corrections program serving Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, and Pike counties. The listed address is 204 Katherine Avenue, P.O. Box 2513, Ozark, AL 36360, with phone (334) 774-9135. The ADOC Community Corrections Program page identifies Cheryl Leatherwood as director in the research capture. This office is not described as a detention facility, and it should not be treated as a place where the public searches an inmate roster.

Community corrections is a release explanation. A Coffee County defendant may leave Coffee County Jail because a judge ordered placement into a community-corrections program, or because a sentence is being served locally through a supervised program after a custody period. In that situation, the jail may show a release or transfer out of jail, but the court order explains what actually happened. The person may no longer be in the jail's active population and may not be an ADOC prison inmate, yet there may still be program obligations ordered by the court.

ADOC describes community corrections as a community-based program for residential and/or non-residential supervision and services. ADOC also says a judge may sentence a defendant directly to community corrections as a prison diversion or after incarceration. That means Southeast Alabama Court Services can be the missing middle between two records that otherwise appear inconsistent: a jail release record that says the person left custody, and a court case that still has sentence or supervision activity.

For this page, the right question is not "is the person detained at Southeast Alabama Court Services?" The better question is "did a Coffee County court order route the person to community corrections, and which office can confirm the program status allowed to be released?" Use the court case first, then the community-corrections office, then ADOC or ABPP only if state custody or state supervision is part of the same case.

Confirm the Program Placement

Begin with the Coffee County court record. The Circuit Clerk page at coffee.alacourt.gov/circuit-clerk-amy-l-reeves/ says the clerk is the official record keeper for District and Circuit Court proceedings. Trial-court records can be searched through Alacourt / Just One Look, and Coffee County's docket search is at pa.alacourt.com/frmDocketListsearch.aspx?LOC=58. Search for the case-action summary, sentencing order, probation order, revocation order, bond order, commitment order, or any entry naming community corrections.

Then call or contact Southeast Alabama Court Services using the ADOC-listed information. Provide the person's full legal name, date of birth, Coffee County case number if known, sentencing date if known, and the court order or docket entry that appears to place the person in community corrections. Ask what information the office can confirm publicly and whether the question should be routed back to the court, a supervising officer, ADOC, or ABPP. Program status may involve limits that a public web page cannot display.

If the person came from Coffee County Jail, keep the jail release record in the chain. The jail can confirm whether the person left the jail, the release date and time if releasable, and whether the record says court order, community corrections, probation, ADOC, or another destination. The jail is at 1133 E. McKinnon Street, New Brockton, with phone (334) 894-6200. The sheriff site at coffeeso.us provides the main sheriff contact and app route for public sheriff information.

If state custody is involved, check ADOC. A person sentenced to ADOC may appear in the ADOC current-inmate search while incarcerated, but ADOC says historical data is not available online after release. If the person was never sentenced to ADOC custody, the ADOC search may not help. If parole, probation, delinquency, revocation, or ABPP supervision is involved, use the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles and the Enterprise Field Office serving Coffee County. The Coffee County release guide explains how to split those paths before making calls.

Program Records and Contact

Southeast Alabama Court Services should be contacted as a community-corrections program, not as a jail desk. The office may be able to explain program routing, confirm how to submit a question, or direct a requester to the court record. The court order controls placement, modification, completion, revocation, and any return-to-custody decision. If there is a conflict between a short jail-status answer and a court order, the court file is usually the record that explains the legal status.

Use the ADOC Community Corrections Program page at doc.alabama.gov/CommCorrections.aspx to verify the program listing. Use the Coffee County Circuit Clerk for the underlying criminal case record. If the person was released from jail into community corrections, ask the jail for the release record and the court for the order that authorized the placement. If the person later violated or completed program terms, look for a later court entry or program confirmation rather than assuming the original release record tells the full story.

Coffee County court follow-up may involve Enterprise or Elba contacts. The Circuit Clerk staff directory identifies the Enterprise office at 101 S. Edwards Street, Enterprise, phone (334) 347-2519, and an Elba office phone of (334) 897-2954. The correct office can depend on case routing, but the release issue remains the same: court records explain the order, the jail record explains the custody exit, and the community-corrections office explains the program channel.

About Community Corrections

Community corrections is often misunderstood because it appears in a released-inmate workflow without being a jail release list. A person can be physically out of Coffee County Jail while still under a court-ordered program. That is different from an unconditional release, different from an ADOC prison discharge, and different from parole through ABPP. It is also different from a simple court date with no program placement. The language in the docket and sentence order matters.

ADOC's program description makes the court role central. A judge may use community corrections as a prison diversion or after incarceration. For Coffee County, that can explain a record trail where the jail has no current inmate, ADOC has no current state inmate, and ABPP is not the primary contact. The person may be under Southeast Alabama Court Services because the court ordered that local program route.

This page appears in the facility list because it is a major release-adjacent contact for Coffee County, but its label should be read carefully. It is not Coffee County Jail, not Elba Community Based Facility and Community Work Center, and not a separate federal or ICE detention site. It belongs in the release map because it can explain what happened after a jail release or instead of an ADOC prison transfer.

Build the Records Chain

A careful community-corrections release check uses three records in order. First, the Coffee County Jail record shows whether the person left the jail and whether the release destination or reason mentions a court order, community corrections, probation, transfer, or hold. Second, the court record shows the legal order behind the release, including sentence terms, modifications, revocations, or completion entries. Third, Southeast Alabama Court Services can route program-specific questions.

If ADOC appears in the record, use the ADOC inmate search only for current state custody and ADOC Central Records for historical release confirmation. If ABPP appears in the record, use the Enterprise Field Office or statewide ABPP resources. If a federal or immigration hold appears, use the jail handoff record and then the receiving federal or ICE custody path. Community corrections does not replace those systems; it is one possible path in the Coffee County release map.