Chilton County Jail Release Search

Releases from Chilton County Jail

The Chilton County Jail / Chilton County Detention Center is operated by the Chilton County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. The sheriff's corrections page identifies the facility at 301 City Street in Clanton and says the jail receives and releases inmates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. That operating fact is useful for release timing, but it does not mean the public roster has a guaranteed update schedule. The public roster is a convenience source, not a certified release packet.

People leave this facility in different ways. A pretrial detainee may leave on bond or court order. A sentenced county inmate may leave at time served. A person held for another authority may be returned to court, transferred to ADOC, moved to another county, or handed to federal or immigration custody if a valid hold applies. The public 48-hour release roster can show the release event, but the full reason may require the sheriff's record or the court case.

Confirm a Chilton Jail Release

The first online step is the Chilton County roster chooser. Choose the 48 Hour Release option, then use the released roster to search by name or sort by date. The source says the view lists people released from the Chilton County Detention Center within the last 48 hours. The 2023 sheriff website launch release also confirms that the public can view photos and booking details for people in custody and those released within 48 hours.

1. Check the current roster only to see whether the person remains active in jail custody.
2. Open the released roster and compare the name, booking number, booking date, release date, charges, bond, and photo.
3. Save the booking number before the public window expires.
4. If the person is not on the release list, check whether the release is older than 48 hours or whether a transfer occurred.
5. Use the sheriff's records form or court file for the release reason.

The sheriff's released roster is shown below as the local jail release source.

Use the roster for fast public confirmation, then use the sheriff or court record when a formal record is needed.

Chilton Jail Records Contact

The sheriff's public-records route is strict. The request must be written on the public-records request form, hand-delivered to the Sheriff's Office, Attn: Public Records, and submitted with a minimum $20 processing fee by cashier's check or money order payable to Chilton County Commission. The sheriff does not accept phone or fax requests for this process. Additional labor, copy, and electronic media costs may apply after the request is reviewed.

Ask for the booking and release record for the named person, tied to a booking number and date when possible. If a booking photograph is needed, ask for the public booking photograph tied to that booking. Avoid broad wording. A narrow request helps the records staff identify the file.

About Chilton County Jail

The sheriff's corrections page says the jail has 232 beds, houses local, county, and state inmates of both pretrial and convicted status, and is staffed by 30 correctional officers. It identifies Warden Ann Davis as the Corrections Division commander. That mixed population explains why a release from this building can mean several different legal outcomes. Some people leave county custody. Others move deeper into the state or federal system.

The sheriff's corrections page provides the facility details shown in this screenshot.

The operations page helps separate jail release processing from front-office records hours.

Downtown Clanton Release Records

Barry Davis Architects describes the Chilton County Jail as a 39,000-square-foot facility in downtown Clanton with a project cost of $5,495,000. The source notes that the site is near the courthouse, City Hall, attorneys, health services, and other services. That local geography matters because release records, public-records hand delivery, court files, and jail contacts are all centered in Clanton even when a later ADOC or federal release happens somewhere else.

The downtown context does not confirm a release by itself. It explains why the jail page should be read with the court and public-records instructions. A release question may require both the jail record and the court disposition, especially when the public roster shows only the charge and bond field.

Chilton Jail Release Fields

The public release roster is strongest when the release is recent and the booking can be matched with care. The list observed in the research showed a booking photo, name, booking number, release date and time, booking date and time, charges, bond, and a profile link. Those fields let a reader distinguish one booking from another, especially when a person has a common name or more than one jail event.

The bond field should be read carefully. It can help explain why a recent release may have occurred, but the list does not label every release as a bond-out. A person can leave because of a court order, time served, transfer, or another custody event. The legal reason belongs in the sheriff's record or the court file when it is not shown on the public roster.

Older Chilton Jail Releases

After the 48-hour public window, the absence of a name from the release roster does not prove the person was never released. The window may have expired, the person may have been transferred, or the public roster may no longer display that booking. The next source is the written public-records request, followed by the court file when the question is why the custody event ended.

For an older release, write the request around one booking event. Include the person's full name, approximate booking date, possible release date, booking number if known, and the charge. Ask for the public booking and release record, including release date and time and the release authority or reason if maintained and releasable. If the record involves a transfer to ADOC, BOP, ICE, or another county, the receiving agency may also have to be checked.

Note: A current-roster absence is only a starting clue; it is not a certified release record.