How Greene Releases Scott Detainees
Greene County Jail is a county jail operated by the Greene County Sheriff at 403 Seventh Street in Carrollton. Because Scott County has no jail, Greene can serve as the physical custodian after a Scott arrest. The ACLU of Illinois county-jail research indicates Scott detainees are generally placed in Greene County, and an IDOC jail inspection confirms the Greene facility and address. Individual placement still must be verified through the Scott Sheriff or Greene Jail.
A departure from Greene can take several forms. The jail may release a person to the community under a court order, complete a local custody term, transfer the person to IDOC, deliver the person to another county or agency, or retain the person because of another hold. The movement entry should be read exactly as recorded. A “transfer” is not a community release even though the person no longer appears in Greene custody.
| Greene event | Meaning | Next confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Community release | Physical jail custody ended under recorded authority | Scott court order and any supervision assignment |
| County transfer | Another local agency received custody | Receiving sheriff or jail |
| IDOC transfer | State prison custody began | IDOC individual search |
| Hold remains | One matter changed, but confinement continues | Greene and the agency that issued the hold |
The housing-jail record is essential because a Scott court order only authorizes a legal change. Processing and unresolved holds can separate the order time from the actual exit. The Scott County release verification route combines the jail movement with the Sheriff’s handoff record and court docket.
Verify the Greene Custody Event
Gather a full name, birthdate or approximate age, Scott arrest date, Scott case number, and any Greene booking number. The agency and location must match Carrollton, Illinois. A name match alone is not enough, particularly when unrelated Scott County results from Indiana or Iowa appear in search engines.
- Confirm Greene was the jail. Call the Scott County Sheriff at 217-742-3141 and ask where the person was transported. Do not rely only on Greene being the usual destination.
- Check Illinois VINE. Search by name, ID, or case number and compare the source agency. Enable photographs if offered, but use a photo only to identify the record, not to prove release.
- Call Greene County Jail. Ask if the person remains in custody. If not, request the date, time, disposition, and destination recorded for departure.
- Separate release from transfer. Ask whether the person entered the community or another agency received custody. Follow the new custodian when the event was a transfer.
- Match the Scott case. Obtain the filed pretrial, dismissal, sentence, probation, mittimus, warrant, or other order that explains the legal event.
Illinois VINE is especially helpful in a no-jail county because it can expose an event under the actual housing agency rather than a nonexistent Scott roster. VINE republishes participating-agency data, can lag, and does not promise a permanent archive. A no-result is inconclusive. Direct confirmation with Greene remains necessary when timing or disposition matters.
Greene Jail Contact and Records
Contact the corrections facility for physical custody questions and the appropriate Greene public-records contact for a written jail record. Ask which office receives requests before sending personal details through an unconfirmed channel.
403 Seventh Street
Carrollton, IL 62016
Phone: 217-942-6901
A narrow request should identify the person and Scott arrest, then ask for the public booking/intake entry, custody chronology, dates and times received, transferred, and discharged, release or transfer disposition, receiving agency when public, and booking photograph when available. Include the Scott case number and the approximate custody window because Greene may use its own booking identifier.
Ask for electronic production and for exempt information to be redacted while segregable public portions are released. Illinois FOIA section 2.15 supports access to specified arrest identity, available photograph, charge and arrest information, and timestamps for receipt, discharge, and transfer, subject to other applicable protections. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, investigatory, security, and other protected information can be withheld under applicable law.
Scott County should receive a parallel request for its arrest and transport chronology. Scott may show the custody handoff while Greene shows the physical intake and exit. If either agency says it lacks part of the record, ask it to identify the actual custodian instead of treating the gap as proof of release.
About Greene County Jail
Greene is a county jail serving its own jurisdiction and, based on the Scott research, generally housing Scott detainees under the neighboring-county arrangement. It is not a “Scott County Jail,” and a Greene booking does not change the county of the Scott criminal case. The physical custody record and legal case can therefore carry different county names while referring to the same person and event chain.
- Booking
- The Greene intake record created when the person enters the facility.
- Release disposition
- The recorded legal or administrative manner in which Greene custody ended.
- Detainer or hold
- Authority that may prevent community release after another matter changes.
- Custody transfer
- Delivery to another government custodian rather than freedom from confinement.
No official source established a uniform Greene exit point, release hour, weekend-processing rule, property-return procedure, family waiting policy, record-retention period, or public release-photo feed. Call before travel and ask only for facility-specific current instructions. Generic county-jail assumptions are not reliable substitutes.
Note: Greene’s role as the common housing destination is a routing lead, not proof that every Scott arrestee was booked there.
Reconcile Greene and Scott Records
A strong release chronology may contain multiple timestamps, each answering a different question. Scott’s arrest time begins the law-enforcement record. Scott’s transport entry identifies the handoff. Greene’s intake time begins physical custody in Carrollton. A Scott court order supplies legal authority, while Greene’s departure entry records the actual custody change. Differences among those times are not necessarily errors.
- Compare the legal name, birthdate, Scott case number, and Greene booking number.
- Record every agency and timestamp with its source rather than merging them.
- Transcribe “released,” “transferred,” or another disposition without rewriting it.
- Ask whether an outside warrant, detainer, or sentence affected departure.
- Request the filed court order if the docket description is unclear.
- Follow any receiving agency until community release or current custody is confirmed.
The Scott Circuit Clerk at 35 E. Market Street in Winchester maintains the criminal case. Its records can include pretrial-release orders, dismissal, plea and sentence entries, jail credit, probation, mittimus, warrants, revocations, and satisfaction or discharge. A courthouse public terminal and the linked Judici interface can help locate the case, but the clerk is the official custodian.
If a once-visible case or custody entry disappears, do not infer a favorable or unfavorable outcome. A feed may age out, a record may be protected, or the person may be under another custodian. Ask what public record remains and use the agency-created documents.
Prepare for a Carrollton Release
A Scott resident may exit in Carrollton rather than Winchester. Call Greene before arranging a trip and confirm that release processing has actually completed. Ask for the correct public pickup area, whether the facility can discuss property return, and whether the planned time is still current. No research source promises a specific release hour or jail-door pickup.
West Central Mass Transit serves Scott and surrounding counties and can be considered for trip planning, but routes, reservations, fares, hours, pickup locations, and same-day availability must be verified directly. A court order or projected date should not be treated as a transportation appointment.
After community release, the relevant supervision may be Scott pretrial services, the shared Greene/Scott Probation Department, or IDOC Parole. Greene and Scott jointly administer probation from the Greene County Courthouse area in Carrollton, but probation status does not prove the precise jail exit time. Keep supervision confirmation and physical release confirmation as separate records.
For a recent window, request an exact start and end time rather than asking for a generic daily list. Tell Greene to include transfers, then distinguish community departures from agency transfers. That bounded request is the accurate substitute for an absent public 24-hour or 72-hour feed.