Clinton County Correctional Facility Releases
A person leaving Clinton County Correctional Facility may enter the community or remain in government custody. Local pretrial release can follow bail, recognizance, dismissal, or another court order. A person serving a Clinton County sentence may leave on county parole, time served, or sentence completion. Those events should appear in a CCCF release or movement entry and connect to a Clinton County court order.
CCCF also holds people for other Pennsylvania counties, PADOC, the U.S. Marshals Service, and ICE. For them, release from the CCCF bed may be a transfer back to the sending authority. It is accurate to say that the CCCF custody episode ended, but not that the person entered the community unless the destination and controlling record support that conclusion. The booking number is the best bridge between the current list and a later records request.
| Custody basis | Possible path from CCCF | Confirmation source |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton County pretrial | Bail, recognizance, dismissal, or court release | CCCF entry and UJS order |
| Clinton County sentence | County parole, time served, or completion | Release entry and sentencing or parole order |
| Another county or PADOC | Return or transfer to the sending authority | Movement log and receiving-agency system |
| USMS or ICE | Federal transfer, supervised release, immigration action, or other movement | CCCF log, federal court, BOP, USMS, ICE, or DHS-VINE |
Confirm CCCF Release Records
The official CCCF inmate-search resource is a generated PDF for detainees currently housed. It lists a name, booking number, and generation time. It does not display release date, release type, charge, photograph, destination, or an archive. A name found there supports custody only at the printed time. A name missing from it does not prove release.
- Search the current PDF and save the booking number and timestamp.
- Check PA SAVIN through VINELink for a matching person and participating agency event.
- Review every matching Clinton County Magisterial District and Common Pleas docket.
- Ask CCCF whether the booking was released, transferred, or taken by another authority.
- Continue with PADOC, another county, USMS, BOP, or ICE if that agency controlled the next custody stage.
PA SAVIN may label a participating record “Out of Custody,” but the label may not state whether the cause was bail, sentence completion, parole, or transfer. A court order explains legal authority but may predate facility processing. The most reliable CCCF release finding joins the operational record and court or agency record. The full county search and release-record path is available on the Clinton County released inmates home page.
A state prisoner can appear in the PADOC locator under an institution before release and under a parole district after physical departure. That route does not cover an ordinary short CCCF booking. Likewise, BOP covers sentenced federal records, not every person held before trial for USMS. Select the locator only after CCCF identifies the legal custodian. Copy each system's exact label instead of changing “transfer,” “out of custody,” or “released to authority” into a broader claim.
CCCF Release Records Contact
Begin with the facility for a routine release entry. Give the legal name, booking number, and approximate dates. Ask for the existing booking-and-release face sheet or release-log entry, including admission and release time, release disposition, and authorizing or receiving authority, subject to lawful redaction. If informal access is not available, submit a focused request through Clinton County's Right-to-Know process.
P.O. Box 419
McElhattan, PA 17748
570-769-7680
warden@clintoncountypa.gov
Call before visiting to confirm the physical records location and public hours.
The county contact presentation contains inconsistent location and hours information. County pages have displayed differing weekday schedules, a Pine Mountain Road facility location, and another administrative address. Do not assume that a mailing address is the public records counter. Confirm the correct site before travel.
Ask for an existing record rather than an explanation. Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know process generally gives an agency five business days to grant access, deny with legal grounds, or invoke a permitted extension. Security, personal data, investigations, juvenile status, criminal-history rules, sealing, and expungement may affect disclosure. A denial should state its legal basis.
The live PDF has no public archive, but that does not set the retention period for the underlying jail file. A name can vanish from the next snapshot while the booking and release record remains with the county. Save the official response and its request date. If a docket is sealed, expunged, or limited access, do not try to rebuild the restricted case from stale copies. For a factual error, address CCCF about its release entry and the Clerk of Courts about a filed judicial record.
CCCF Mixed Custody Releases
Clinton County owns CCCF, and the Clinton County Prison Board operates it. The facility uses a direct-supervision model and holds both pretrial and convicted people. The official facility page also says it houses state and other-county prisoners for revenue. A 2024 ICE Office of Detention Oversight inspection adds the federal layer: ICE uses CCCF through a U.S. Marshals Service intergovernmental agreement.
The mixed population makes authority more important than geography. A detainee can be physically present in Clinton County without a Clinton County criminal case. Identify the sending or committing authority on the available record. Then use that agency's locator, docket, or records office. The CCCF entry proves movement from this facility; it may not control what happened after transport.
ICE Transfers from CCCF Releases
An ICE or USMS detainee released from CCCF may still be confined. The CCCF movement entry can say that another authority received the person. For ICE custody, use the Online Detainee Locator System to seek a current detention location. It is not a release-history archive. A no-result can reflect transfer, release, removal, identity mismatch, or a person outside the searchable group.
DHS-VINE can provide immigration custody notifications where supported. For a USMS pretrial defendant, use the federal docket, counsel, and the relevant Marshals Service district because USMS has no public historic name locator like BOP. A sentenced federal person may appear in the BOP locator, which can show a release date and “Released” or “Not in BOP custody.” Neither status proves freedom from every other custody or supervised-release term.
The 2024 ICE inspection documents CCCF's federal detention role. Reconcile its local movement record with ODLS, DHS-VINE, the federal docket, and the agency that received the person.
CCCF History and Release Records
Clinton County's first formal jail opened in Lock Haven in 1852. That original structure still stands at 352 East Church Street, but it is not the operating jail. The current McElhattan facility was dedicated in 1990. Its 148-bed expansion opened in December 2003 and soon served an increased outside-county population.
This history explains why old local references can send a reader to the wrong building and why the present release path is unusually complex. Current custody and release questions belong with CCCF, the court, or the outside authority. Do not visit the historic jail for a modern record. Because county web pages contain conflicting contact-location text, phone the facility before any in-person request.
CCCF Work Release Status
CCCF describes Work Release and Community Release for selected minimum-security participants. It also lists educational, counseling, substance-use, mental-health, religious, vocational, and community-service programming. Participation may place a person outside a secure unit for an approved purpose without ending the sentence or custody status.
Confirm the exact status through the facility and order. A program page is not proof of eligibility, release, or final discharge. County specialty courts may coordinate CCCF, Adult Probation, court offices, human-service agencies, and community providers. Their person-specific orders and supervision terms appear through the court record, not as a simple CCCF release category.