Scott County Release Date Types
A projected date is an agency calculation based on the sentence and facts then in the record. An actual release entry records a completed event. Neither should be confused with a court order, transport time, or final discharge from supervision. Illinois also distinguishes release from prison to mandatory supervised release, called MSR, from the later end of sentence obligations.
Pretrial custody works differently. A Scott judge may order release with conditions, yet another warrant, detainer, identity check, transport issue, or jail process can delay departure. A detainer is another agency's request to hold or receive the person. The order proves legal authority. The housing jail's log proves movement.
Find Scott County Release Dates
Start with custody type. Scott County has no jail, so local detainees may be housed in Greene, Pike, or Morgan County. State prisoners belong in the IDOC system. Federal cases require the federal path.
- Call the Scott County Sheriff's Office at 217-742-3141 to identify the housing jail.
- Search the Scott court case for the release, sentence, custody-credit, or mittimus order. A mittimus commits a person to custody.
- Ask the housing jail for its actual release or transfer date, time, disposition, and destination.
- For state prison, use the IDOC offender search by partial surname, IDOC number, or birthdate.
- If a completed IDOC discharge no longer appears, request public admission, release, MSR, and discharge fields through IDOC FOIA.
Match names with identifiers and Scott as the committing county. The full Scott County release search can reconcile jail, court, VINE, and corrections records when one source is blank.
Illinois Sentence Credit Rules
730 ILCS 5/3-6-3 governs Illinois sentence credit. Certain first-degree murder and terrorism provisions require the full term. Specified serious offenses generally permit no more than 4.5 days of credit per sentence month, often called the 85 percent rule. Listed drug provisions can cap credit at 7.5 days per month, commonly described as 75 percent. Other eligible offenses may receive day-for-day credit. Natural-life terms receive none.
Those labels do not decide an individual case. The conviction, offense date, sentence structure, custody credit, and statutory version matter. The IDOC Director may award discretionary earned credit within statutory limits. Program and self-improvement credits have separate rules. IDOC notes that many 85 percent and 100 percent cases are not eligible for programming credit even when participation occurs.
Do not calculate a date from a charge page. Charges can change. Use the sentencing order, custody-credit calculation, and IDOC computation.
Why Scott Release Dates Change
Projections move as new legal and administrative facts enter the file. A later date is not necessarily an error, and an earlier date does not guarantee release to the community.
| Factor | Possible effect |
|---|---|
| Custody credit | Verified time already served affects the remaining term. |
| Consecutive or concurrent terms | Sentence structure changes how terms combine. |
| Credit award, loss, or restoration | IDOC may revise the computation. |
| Warrant or detainer | Another agency may take custody. |
| Court order | An amended sentence can require recalculation. |
| Supervision action | Violation, revocation, or discharge decisions affect later milestones. |
Where sources disagree, preserve each label. Ask whether a date is projected, ordered, processed, notified, transferred, actually released, or finally discharged.
Confirm Scott County Release
For local custody, ask the housing jail whether its public log shows departure and whether the disposition was community release or transfer. Record the agency, public number, call time, and fact confirmed. Request the official entry when precision matters.
A VINELink Release Check can provide notice of a pending custody change. It remains a derivative feed. For state prison, rely on IDOC actual release and status fields. Use Prisoner Review Board records only for the decision or final-supervision milestone they address.
IDOC FOIA requests can seek actual admission and release dates, release type, projected and actual MSR or discharge entries, and a sentence-calculation sheet where public. Ask for segregable public portions, not an entire confidential master file.
Scott County IDOC Milestones
IDOC separately records PROJ MSR DATE and PROJ DISC DATE. The first generally concerns the projected move from prison into mandatory supervised release. The second concerns the projected end of sentence and supervision obligations. Physical prison departure, start of supervision, and final discharge are distinct events.
A person on MSR has left prison but remains under IDOC Parole supervision. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board sets relevant conditions and may later enter an early final-discharge order. That order ends supervision. It is not a prison-gate timestamp.
A complete timeline can contain projected MSR, actual prison release, supervision completion, and final sentence discharge. Never collapse them into one generic date.
IDOC master-file guidance identifies sentence-calculation sheets, credit revocation or restoration records, parole agreements, violation reports, release checklists, release-date notices, MSR preparation summaries, warrants, detainers, identification checklists, photographs, and release packets. The inventory shows that different records support different milestones. It does not mean that every item is open to the public. A focused request should name the specific date or status field needed and ask IDOC to produce any reasonably segregable public part.
Prisoner Review Board materials also answer narrower questions. An en banc grant or youthful-parole decision may explain a legal decision before a release plan is approved. Revocation schedules and results concern alleged supervision violations. The early final-discharge process concerns the end of parole or MSR. None should be substituted for IDOC's actual institution-release entry. Keep the source, field label, and date together whenever the timeline is recorded or shared.
Scott County Local Sentences
A local sentence belongs to the Scott court and actual contract jail. Obtain the sentencing order and custody-credit calculation from the Circuit Clerk. Then ask Greene, Pike, or Morgan for the release or transfer log. “Time served” can mean the custodial part of the Scott matter is satisfied, but another warrant, probation term, or hold may remain.
Illinois sources did not establish a Scott-specific weekend advance rule or local good-time policy. Do not assume one. The contract jail processes departure under its records and controlling orders.
If the sentence sends the person to IDOC, leaving the county jail is a transfer, not release from custody. Begin a new state-prison segment.
Request Scott IDOC Date Records
A completed IDOC discharge may no longer appear in the public search. The official no-result language treats discharge as only one possible explanation. A different name, county-jail custody, another state, or a search mismatch can lead to the same blank result. For an older state-prison record, submit a narrow request to the IDOC FOIA Officer rather than guessing from disappearance.
Identify the person with the IDOC number when known, full name, birth date, Scott County as the committing county, and a useful date range. Ask for public actual admission and release dates, release status or type, projected and actual MSR and discharge fields, and the sentence-calculation record where disclosable. Request electronic production, redaction of exempt material, and the segregable public remainder.
1301 Concordia Court, PO Box 19277
Springfield, IL 62794-9277
DOC.FOIARequest@illinois.gov
217-558-5612 fax
217-558-2200 extension 4166
IDOC lists the first fifty black-and-white letter or legal pages as free, followed by fifteen cents per page. It lists fifty-nine cents for letter-size color and actual cost for other media. Electronic delivery can avoid unnecessary paper charges.
Scott Release Dates and Detainers
A projected local or prison date may mark the end of one custody segment without marking return to the community. A warrant or detainer can cause another county, the United States Marshals Service, ICE, or another authority to receive the person. The sending agency's record should state transfer or the receiving destination when public. The next custodian must confirm what followed.
For a federal matter, the BOP locator can show a past release date and a location marked “RELEASED.” That means the person is no longer in BOP custody, not that supervision ended or no other agency holds the person. “IN TRANSIT” and a community corrections placement still describe BOP custody. USMS has no matching public historic locator for all federal detainees, so use the federal docket and holding facility.
ICE's online locator concerns current adult detention and is not a historical release ledger. No result may reflect transfer, lag, spelling differences, age restrictions, or a person outside ICE custody. Preserve the state or local departure date and the federal or immigration event as separate entries.
Note: A release date belongs to the agency that recorded it and should not be applied to every later custodian.
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Search with a name and identifier, then confirm the date label and custody source.
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