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Shiawassee Jail Release Destinations

A departure from Shiawassee County Jail can lead to several distinct places. Someone may return to the community after posting bond, receiving a personal-recognizance order, completing a jail term, obtaining dismissal, or receiving another court-authorized release. Physical release does not end every legal duty. The person may still have an active case, pretrial conditions, probation, or another court date.

Other departures are transfers, not community releases. The Shiawassee County Sheriff's Office may deliver a sentenced person to the Michigan Department of Corrections, send someone to another county or agency, or carry out an extradition. The Sheriff's official description of duties includes court and prison transportation as well as extraditions. A Shiawassee release or transfer form should identify the receiving agency when custody changes hands.

The wording matters. “Not at Shiawassee County Jail” does not mean “free from all custody.” The destination field, court case, and receiving system reveal whether the person went home, entered supervision, or remained confined elsewhere.

Confirm a Shiawassee Jail Release

The official Sheriff site does not publish a searchable jail roster or a recent-release list. Its direct instruction is to call for inmate information. That makes the jail phone the first current-status channel, while VINE, court records, and a focused records request supply context and proof. The broader Shiawassee County released-inmate search explains how these systems fit together across county, state, federal, and immigration custody.

1. Call the jail. Use 989-743-2230 and provide enough identity detail to distinguish the correct person. Ask whether Shiawassee still holds the person and, if staff can disclose it, whether the event was a release or transfer.
2. Read the Michigan VINE event. Search the person under Michigan, then note the reporting agency, status, and event. Release, transfer, and escape are separate events.
3. Check the court case. Use the 66th District Court route for misdemeanors and felony preliminary matters. Use the 35th Circuit Court or County Clerk for felony trial-level records.
4. Request the release record. Ask the Sheriff for the release date and time, legal basis, release form, bond or transfer paper, and receiving destination.
5. Follow a transfer. Use OTIS only when MDOC took custody. Use the receiving county, federal, or immigration system when the facts point there.

Two matching sources provide stronger support than one. A court order shows legal authority, but the jail movement record shows when staff carried it out. VINE can flag an agency-reported event, but it is not a certified release document. Write down the time of a phone call and the identifying details used, then seek a written record when exact timing or destination matters.

Shiawassee Jail Release Contacts

The jail and Sheriff's Office share the McArthur Street location in Corunna. The inmate-information line serves current custody questions. The business line and fax support office contact and the documented records-request route. Posted business hours exclude county holidays, while the inmate-information function is identified separately on the jail page.

The official jail page lists Jail Administrator Lt. Casey Colbry at extension 7226 and Assistant Jail Administrator Staff Sgt. Justin Cross at extension 2296. Those staff listings may change, so the main business or inmate-information number remains the sound starting point.

The official jail page is also the source for the lack of a web roster. Its visible direction says to call for inmate information. The InmateSales reference concerns calls and video communication, not inmate lookup or release data.

On the Sheriff jail information page, the phone instruction and facility identity can be reviewed directly.

The screenshot reinforces the official route: current inmate information begins by phone rather than through an online Shiawassee County Jail roster.

Request Shiawassee Jail Release Records

A focused Michigan Freedom of Information Act request can document the jail's physical handoff. Send the county form to the FOIA Coordinator at the Sheriff's Office address above or fax it to 989-743-6423. The Sheriff's Records page contains an email placeholder, so no email submission route should be assumed. The official Sheriff FOIA page provides the request packet and policy links.

Name the person, give aliases and date of birth if known, and use a narrow booking or date range. Request records sufficient to show booking and departure, not the entire jail file. Useful targets include the final inmate release form, release date and time, release type or authority, bond papers, transfer destination, property-release acknowledgment, and booking photograph. If another agency took custody, ask for the record identifying that agency and the date and time it accepted custody.

Ask for electronic delivery, redaction of exempt material instead of full denial, and an itemized estimate before costs exceed a stated limit. County policy uses a five-business-day response framework and allows one written extension of up to ten business days. That deadline concerns the response, not a promise that production will be complete by then. Estimates over $50 may lead to a good-faith deposit request.

Permitted labor is calculated in 15-minute increments, with a partial increment rounded down and no labor charge for work under 15 minutes. Standard letter or legal copies cost no more than $0.10 per sheet, plus allowed media or postage costs. A qualifying indigence affidavit may support the first $20 discount. Check the current policy when filing because a current agency calculation controls.

Note: FOIA requires production of existing nonexempt records; it does not require the Sheriff to create a new release list.

Shiawassee Jail Bond Releases

A bond order can authorize release while the criminal case remains active. The jail lobby has a Canteen kiosk that can accept bonds, but the presence of that kiosk does not prove a particular payment or an immediate exit. Processing may also depend on another hold or case. Use the District Court case to confirm bond type, amount, and conditions, then call the jail for actual processing status.

Shiawassee County Pretrial Services screens many in-custody misdemeanor and felony defendants and makes release or condition recommendations under court authority. It supervises conditions only when ordered. A participant may be physically outside the jail while still facing court dates, reporting duties, testing, monitoring, or other terms. “Released” should therefore never be restated as “case closed.”

Personal recognizance

A court-authorized release based on a promise to return and comply with stated conditions.

Conditional release

Release from jail with court-imposed duties that may be supervised before the case ends.

Hold

Another legal basis that can prevent departure even after release is authorized in one case.

The court record supplies the legal order. The Sheriff record supplies execution time. When those sources appear to conflict, compare the order date with the jail departure date and ask whether another case, warrant, or agency hold remained active.

Shiawassee Jail Sentence Releases

Completion of a county jail sentence follows a different path from bond. Obtain the commitment or judgment and the Sheriff's final calculation. Michigan law contemplates a jail-register release date that accounts for applicable good-time computations, but Shiawassee County publishes no online calculator. Court credit, disciplinary rulings, consecutive matters, or holds can affect the practical result. Do not subtract days from a sentence and treat the answer as official.

A state-prison sentence creates another distinction. The Shiawassee County Jail departure record should identify MDOC as the destination. Once MDOC receives the person, OTIS may show Prisoner status. That means the person left county custody but did not return to the community. OTIS may not update at the exact moment of the physical transfer, so compare the transfer form with the later state record.

Another-county, federal, and immigration holds work the same way in principle: Shiawassee's form proves only that Shiawassee relinquished custody. The receiving agency's system and later release record control what happened after the handoff. If a signed dismissal or release order exists, compare it with the jail's actual execution time because another active matter may still prevent community release.

Shiawassee Jail Release Retention

Michigan's General Schedule 11 gives the most useful record-retention detail for local jail files. Item 11.210 describes an inmate jacket that may include booking cards, mug shots, sentencing records, medical or financial release forms, property release forms, prison transfers, court documents, inmate release forms, bonds, warrants, arrest cards, and extradition papers. The schedule retains that jacket until release plus ten years.

“May include” describes a record category. It does not guarantee that every item exists in every Shiawassee County Jail file or that every part is public without redaction. Still, the schedule shows why the absence of a web roster says nothing about whether an underlying release document remains with the Sheriff. A focused request can be useful long after the current-status phone answer changes.

Property intake and release records follow a separate period through the end of the calendar year plus one year. Aggregate jail summaries and midnight counts, including admissions and releases, generally run through year-end plus two years. These aggregate series can support a bounded statistics request, but they are not person locators and do not prove that a 24-hour list already exists.

Transfers and extradition papers are especially useful when the destination is unclear. A retention schedule authorizes disposition after the stated period. It does not establish that a document was created, remained available, or lacks an exemption.

Shiawassee Jail Facility Details

Shiawassee County Jail is a county jail operated by the Sheriff's Office. It holds people connected to pending local cases and local jail sentences. It is not an MDOC prison. The difference controls where release information comes from: jail status starts with the Sheriff, while state-prison status starts with OTIS after MDOC takes jurisdiction.

The official jail page lists onsite visitation Monday through Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Remote video is listed from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, with reservations made 24 hours ahead through InmateSales. These visitation and communication details do not confirm release, and they do not establish when processing will finish.

No official source states a release door, daily release hours, weekend or holiday processing rules, family waiting location, transportation home, or gate money. Those facts should not be guessed. Call the jail about a specific current situation and follow staff directions for safe pickup or waiting arrangements.

A past proposal discussed replacing the jail, but it does not prove a replacement was built. The current Sheriff page still identifies the McArthur Street facility. Current official information should control over an old proposal or an unofficial listing.