Clinton Facility Release Paths
The official Clinton County Correctional Facility page describes secure detention for accused and convicted people, including people housed for other counties. When Clinton physically releases a Sullivan County person, its jail management record is the source for the discharge date and time. The legal authority may come from a Sullivan court, but Clinton staff process the actual exit and clear holds.
The destination determines the meaning. A person may leave for the community after bond, time served, sentence expiration, or another valid order. The person may instead return to Sullivan court, enter another county jail, move to PA DOC reception, or be handed to a federal custodian. A closed Clinton booking followed by another agency name is a transfer. Use “community release” only when the discharge record and surrounding court or supervision evidence support it.
Confirm Clinton Facility Release
Begin with person-level evidence. The 2026 confinement agreement supports Clinton as a current principal Sullivan destination, yet Sullivan has used several institutions. Ask the Sullivan sheriff for the destination and transport date, or read the commitment and docket. A Clinton search with no match may mean another placement, a spelling difference, or a delayed system update.
- Find the Sullivan County criminal docket and record its number, OTN, commitment, bail, sentence, and later orders.
- Confirm through the sheriff or commitment that Clinton County Correctional Facility received the person.
- Use Clinton's official custody or records channel and PA SAVIN/VINELink when available.
- Match the person by booking number, docket, birth information, or another stable identifier, not name alone.
- Request the admission and discharge record, including reason, releasing authority, and destination.
- Check a named next custodian if Clinton recorded transfer rather than community release.
The Sullivan County released inmate search provides the wider route for UJS, PA DOC, VINE, BOP, and ICE. Clinton's record remains essential for the physical event it processed. A court order can direct release, while an unresolved warrant or detainer can still alter the final action.
Note: A VINE status is useful notice, but the facility's discharge record is stronger evidence of exact time and reason.
Clinton Release Records Contact
Use Clinton's published facility contact only after confirming the person was admitted there. Public hours describe when the office is open, not a promise that releases occur only within that span. Call ahead for the proper records or open-records route and current visitor access rules.
Clinton County Correctional Facility
P.O. Box 419
McElhattan, PA 17748
Phone: 570-769-7680
Published public hours: weekdays, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Provide the legal name, aliases, date of birth if allowed, Sullivan docket or OTN, approximate booking dates, and any known Clinton identifier. Ask staff whether telephone confirmation is available. If it is restricted, ask which existing record and request form contains the discharge entry. Do not request medical, security, juvenile, or victim information.
Clinton Release Record Fields
The most useful record ties one admission to a dated exit. A public roster, if offered, may omit details retained in the underlying jail file. Ask for the administrative booking and discharge fields and request a booking photograph separately if needed.
| Field | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Booking number | Separates this admission from a prior or later stay. |
| Admission timestamp | Connects Clinton custody to the Sullivan transport. |
| Release timestamp | Shows when Clinton closed the physical booking. |
| Release type or reason | Distinguishes bond, sentence action, parole, or transfer. |
| Releasing authority | Links the discharge to the court or agency action. |
| Destination | Shows community exit or the next custodian. |
| Charges and holds | Helps explain why another matter affected the exit. |
Copy labels exactly. “Out of custody” is not always the same as final sentence discharge. Parole means release from confinement into community supervision. A detainer is a hold or notice from another authority and may produce a transfer at the jail door.
Request Clinton Release Records
Send the booking and discharge request to Clinton County because Clinton created and retains those facility records. Ask for existing records sufficient to show the named person's admission and discharge during a narrow period. Include electronic delivery, a request for a fee estimate, and a request that exempt material be redacted while nonexempt fields are produced.
Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law generally requires an agency response within five business days, either granting access, denying it, or invoking an allowed extension. The Office of Open Records RTKL overview explains the process. A request does not compel staff to answer a question or create a new report. Frame it around records that already exist.
Keep the facility request separate from the Sullivan records. The Sullivan sheriff can provide its transport or destination entry. The Sullivan Clerk of Courts can provide the bail, commitment, sentencing, or modification order. Clinton can provide the admission and discharge transaction. This three-part record set shows both legal authority and physical custody without asking one county to alter another county's database.
Note: Ask for an electronic copy and written estimate because no researched source states a special Clinton release-record search fee.
Clinton Sullivan Confinement Agreement
Sullivan County commissioners' April 7, 2026 minutes document a three-year prisoner-confinement agreement with Clinton County. The stated rate was $73 per inmate per day, plus medical and transportation costs. The minutes describe emergency circumstances and say the agreement was signed outside the regular meeting because of time constraints. This is the strongest current principal-destination evidence found for Sullivan.
The agreement is not an inmate roster. It does not prove that every Sullivan detainee went to Clinton, stayed there for the full case, or was released there. Sullivan's history includes Montour, Wyoming, Lycoming, and Columbia arrangements or placements. The correct conclusion is narrow: Clinton is a documented, significant current route, and person-level confirmation remains required.
A source date matters. Before relying on the agreement, check whether it remains operative and whether another facility served a special placement. For a historical case, use the contract in effect at that time only as a lead.
Clinton Release Versus Transfer
Clinton houses both accused and convicted people. Pretrial release may follow bail or a court order. A sentenced person may leave after time served, sentence expiration, parole, or transfer to state custody. None of these terms should be collapsed into one generic release date.
- Bond or bail
- Exit from pretrial custody while the criminal case and bail terms continue.
- Time served
- A discharge tied to sentence credit and the court's sentence calculation.
- Parole
- Community release under legal supervision, not completion of the maximum sentence.
- Transfer
- Movement from Clinton to PA DOC, another jail, USMS, ICE, or another named custodian.
- Discharge
- The facility action that closes the booking under a recorded authority.
If Clinton records PA DOC as destination, use the state Inmate/Parolee Locator and DOC number. If ICE or a federal agency appears, use that system's official locator or records route. When no receiving agency appears and court or supervision records agree, the evidence for community release is stronger.
Clinton Corrects Sullivan Jail Myth
Clinton's documented role helps correct a common Sullivan County records error. The Sullivan County Courthouse at 245 Muncy Street is often copied into private directories as a functioning “Sullivan County Jail.” The official sheriff page describes transport and monitoring duties, while PA DOC county-prison resources do not list a Sullivan institution. Clinton is an actual outside correctional facility, but it should be connected to a person only through the commitment, sheriff transport, Clinton booking, or matched VINE result.
This distinction changes where each request goes. The Sullivan sheriff can identify the transport destination and produce its own custody record. Clinton can produce admission and discharge fields for a person it held. The Sullivan Clerk of Courts can supply the order. Sending a Clinton booking request to the Laporte courthouse asks the wrong custodian, while assuming Clinton held every Sullivan person overstates the agreement.
The same caution applies to search results for Sullivan County in New York or Tennessee. Confirm Pennsylvania, the agency name, and an official government source. No Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, jail app, public roster, or local release feed was found. Clinton's current rules control a Clinton booking, and those rules should be checked when the request is made.
A facility destination field is stronger person-level proof than a general agreement or an unverified directory entry.