Monroe Detention Release Paths
Monroe County Detention Facility is the local jail channel for people arrested in Monroeville, Excel, Frisco City, Beatrice, and unincorporated Monroe County when the arrest results in a county booking. A release from this facility can mean several different things. The person may leave on bond, recognizance, a court order, dismissal, time served, sentence completion, probation, medical transport, or transfer. The release record should be read for the release reason, not just the word released.
The most important distinction is whether the person walked out to the community or left Monroe County custody for another agency. A jail release record may show transfer to the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search, another county, federal custody, immigration custody, or a court/medical hold. That is still a release from the county jail, but it is not proof that all custody ended. The durable local proof is the Monroe County Detention Facility release record, the sheriff's booking or jail log entry, and the court case record.
| Release route | Best confirmation source |
|---|---|
| Bond, recognizance, or court order | Detention facility release record and Monroe County court case |
| Time served or county sentence complete | Jail release record, sentence entry, and clerk case action |
| Transfer to ADOC | County transfer note, ADOC search, and ADOC records request if needed |
| Transfer to another authority | County release reason plus the receiving agency's locator or records office |
Confirm a Monroe Jail Release
No official Monroe County 24-hour release list, 72-hour release list, current roster, or public booking-photo feed was identified in the official sources reviewed. That absence changes the search route. A current-custody roster, even if one appears later, should not be treated as a release archive. Released people may drop off a live jail list when the booking system updates. The better question is whether the jail can confirm the release event and provide the release type.
Use the Monroe County Circuit Clerk phone directory as the public contact source for the jail and sheriff numbers. Then move outward only if the answer points away from county custody.
- Call Monroe County Detention Facility and ask whether the person was booked into county custody.
- Ask whether the person is still in custody, released, transferred, or never booked at the jail.
- If released, ask for the release date, release time, release reason, and receiving agency if any.
- If transferred to state custody, check ADOC by name or AIS number.
- If the release involved court action, check the Monroe County Circuit Clerk or Alacourt case record.
- If the person is on supervision, route the question to the ABPP Monroeville Field Office.
Monroe Detention Records Contact
The public directory source for Monroe County lists the detention facility and sheriff as separate contact points. For a release from this facility, the detention facility is the first custody-status route. The sheriff's office is the broader records channel for booking records, jail logs, release sheets, and booking-photo requests when those records are releasable under Alabama public-records law.
Monroe County Detention Facility
Monroe County Detention Facility
Monroe County, Alabama
Phone: 251-575-2635
Public contact source: Monroe County Circuit Clerk phone directory
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Thomas Boatwright
65 North Alabama Avenue, Room 136
Monroeville, AL 36460-1809
Phone: 251-575-2963
When requesting a Monroe County Detention Facility release record, be specific. Give the full name, aliases if known, date of birth or other identifier if appropriate, approximate booking date, arresting agency, court case or warrant number if known, and the type of record requested. Useful fields include booking number, booking date and time, charges at booking, bond amount and bond type, release date and time, release reason, transfer destination, hold notes if releasable, and booking photograph if the sheriff treats it as a releasable record.
Monroe County Directory Source
The official law-enforcement directory is a useful starting point because it places the detention facility, sheriff, municipal police agencies, and local court channels in one county source. The screenshot below comes from the Monroe County Circuit Clerk phone directory, which is the source used for the detention facility phone number and several municipal arrest-channel contacts.
Use the directory as routing support, then confirm the release record with the custodian that held or processed the person. The directory is not itself a jail roster or release list.
About Monroe County Detention
This facility is a county jail, not an Alabama state prison and not a municipal jail page. It handles local jail custody after a person is booked into Monroe County. That can include pretrial custody, bond processing, court holds, short county sentences, time-served releases, and transfers. A municipal police agency may make the arrest, but the county detention facility becomes the main release source once booking occurs.
County jail release records differ from ADOC discharge records. ADOC covers people incarcerated by the State of Alabama. Its search uses first name, last name, and AIS number, and ADOC says youthful offenders are not included. A Monroe County jail detainee who posts bond may never appear in ADOC. A Monroe County defendant sentenced to prison may leave the jail as a transfer, then later have a state projected release date, parole event, mandatory supervision period, or discharge.
- Release
- A custody event showing the person left Monroe County Detention Facility, with a reason such as bond, time served, court order, or transfer.
- Transfer
- A move from county custody to ADOC, another county, federal custody, immigration custody, court, or medical custody.
- Discharge
- A sentence or supervision status ending. For state prisoners, ADOC or ABPP may hold this record.
Monroe Arrests Before Jail
A person may start in Monroeville Police Department, Excel Police Department, or Frisco City Police Department custody before any county jail record exists. That first agency matters when the person was cited and released, held briefly, or routed to municipal court without a full jail booking. It matters less once the person is booked into Monroe County Detention Facility, because the jail release record becomes the main custody record.
For Monroeville arrests, the public directory lists Monroeville Police Department and Monroeville Municipal Court. For Excel and Frisco City arrests, the police department number can help confirm whether the arrest went to county booking. If the person was never booked into the county jail, look for a municipal citation, municipal court disposition, district court entry, or circuit court entry rather than a jail release sheet.
| Arrest channel | Release record route |
|---|---|
| Monroeville Police Department | County jail if booked, municipal court if cited or locally handled |
| Excel Police Department | County jail release record or municipal/district court disposition |
| Frisco City Police Department | County jail release record if booked, court record if not held |
Monroe Jail Record Requests
Alabama public-records law supports requests for public writings, but agencies may require reasonable specificity, written procedures, request forms, and reasonable fees. For Monroe County jail records, that means a narrow request usually works better than a broad demand. Ask for a release record, jail log entry, booking/release sheet, or custody-status record for a named person and a date range.
For court follow-up, the Monroe County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt ACCESS can help locate case status, court action, setting dates, party information, financial history, and case-action summaries. A court record may explain why the jail released the person, while the jail record shows when the person left custody.
Note: If the county jail says the person was transferred, confirm the next custody system before treating the case as closed.
Monroe Detention Transfer Records
The most important release detail from the Monroe County Detention Facility is destination. A person may leave the jail through bond, recognizance, time served, dismissal, probation, sentence completion, or transfer. The county release record should be read for the reason and, when releasable, the receiving agency. That receiving-agency field is what separates a free-world release from a move to ADOC, another county, federal custody, immigration custody, court transport, or medical custody.
No official Monroe County public roster or release feed was found, so the detention facility page should not imply that a public website proves a recent release. The records path is phone confirmation first, then a narrow request for the booking and release record. If the jail reports a transfer, the next search belongs to the receiving agency. ADOC handles state-prison custody; BOP handles federal prison custody; ICE handles immigration custody; the court record explains the case event that may have caused the release or transfer.
Detention Release Record Fields
A useful Monroe County Detention Facility request names the exact custody event. Ask for the booking number if known, arresting agency, booking date, charge list at booking, bond or hold status, release date and time, release reason, and destination if transferred. If the record involves property or a booking photo, ask whether those items are maintained and releasable under Alabama public-records law.
That detail keeps the request focused. Alabama law lets agencies require reasonable specificity, written procedures, and reasonable fees. A narrow request for one person's release record is easier to process than a broad request for every jail record in a long date range.