Lycoming County Prison Release Paths
Lycoming County Prison is an outside county prison, not a Sullivan County jail. March 2024 prison-board reporting described an arrangement under which Lycoming could accept Sullivan female inmates when space allowed. That fact supports a possible placement. It does not establish that any named person entered Lycoming custody or that the arrangement remains the controlling route for every Sullivan case.
A person may leave Lycoming for the community after bail, time served, a sentence event, or another lawful order. The person may instead return to Sullivan court, move to another county prison, enter PA DOC, or pass to a federal custodian. Lycoming's destination field determines which path occurred. A closed booking at Lycoming describes the end of Lycoming custody, not necessarily the end of all custody.
Confirm a Lycoming Prison Release
Lycoming's official inmate-search route is described in the research as routing readers to Pennsylvania VINELink. PA SAVIN can report custody changes supplied by participating county jails. It is a notification system, not a certified discharge archive. Preserve the exact agency, offender ID, status phrase, event wording, and update time.
- Search the Sullivan County criminal docket and identify the commitment or facility reference.
- Ask the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office whether Lycoming accepted the person and on what date.
- Search VINELink by a confirmed name or offender identifier and verify the reporting agency.
- Ask Lycoming's records office for the admission and discharge entries tied to that booking.
- Read the release reason, authority, and destination before describing the event as community release.
If VINELink has no match, do not infer release. The name may differ, data may lag, the agency may not have reported the event, or another facility may have held the person. The broader Sullivan County release search provides the county, state, and federal fallback sequence.
Lycoming Prison Discharge Record Fields
Request the existing booking, commitment, and discharge portions of the jail record. A narrow request identifies the person and date span. It does not ask staff to create a new explanation. Supply the full legal name, aliases, date of birth if permitted, booking number, docket or OTN, and approximate dates.
| Field | Release value |
|---|---|
| Booking number | Connects the exit to one Lycoming admission. |
| Admission date and time | Shows when Lycoming accepted custody. |
| Discharge date and time | Records when Lycoming closed the custody event. |
| Release reason | Distinguishes bail, time served, sentence action, or transfer. |
| Releasing authority | Identifies the court, board, or other source of authority. |
| Destination | Separates a community exit from another custodial handoff. |
| Charges and holds | Shows whether another matter affected movement. |
Ask separately for any booking photograph. A photo-access decision may differ from access to administrative discharge fields. Property or account closure details may also help tie an exit to the correct booking.
Lycoming Prison Records Contact
The supplied Sullivan research does not establish a stable Lycoming street address, phone number, or records-office hours. Those details should be taken from Lycoming County's current official prison page at request time, not copied from an old directory. The research does establish that the official facility page routes inmate searching to VINELink.
County-prison booking and discharge custodian
Address, phone, and hours: verify through the current official Lycoming County prison page
Lookup route: Pennsylvania VINELink
For the Sullivan side of the timeline, the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office can identify a transport destination. Ask for the facility name and transport date. The Sullivan court custodian can supply the commitment, bail, sentence, or modification order. Neither Sullivan office can substitute for Lycoming's physical discharge record.
Note: Confirm current contact details before sending personal identifiers because facility pages and departmental routing can change.
Lycoming's Conditional Sullivan Arrangement
The documented Lycoming arrangement concerned Sullivan female inmates and depended on available capacity. It should be presented as a dated, conditional placement route. It is not evidence that Lycoming served as Sullivan's sole or default jail. Sullivan records also document use of Clinton, Montour, Wyoming, and Columbia at different times or for different needs.
This history matters when an old result places someone in Lycoming. First match the custody dates to the period covered by the record. Then confirm the person-level commitment. A county agreement proves that placement was possible, while the admission record proves it happened. A discharge entry proves that Lycoming ended its custody, subject to the destination shown.
A facility rule in the research bars former Lycoming inmates from visiting for one month. That rule is relevant only to someone actually released from Lycoming and should be confirmed against the current official policy. It is not a Sullivan County release condition and does not apply merely because the underlying case arose there.
Capacity-based placement can also change during one case. A person may begin in one outside jail, move to Lycoming, and later return to court or another institution. Preserve each admission and discharge as its own event. Do not combine separate bookings into one stay or assume that the last public facility name identifies the place that carried out community release.
Sullivan Jail Listings Misroute Releases
The courthouse at 245 Muncy Street in Laporte is often mislabeled online as a “Sullivan County Jail.” Official Sullivan material identifies the location as the courthouse and sheriff's office. PA DOC county-prison resources do not list a Sullivan correctional institution. That false directory label can send a Lycoming records request to an office that never created the booking.
Use a facility-identification workflow instead. Read the commitment and docket. Ask the sheriff where the person went. Compare the answer with VINELink. Only then contact Lycoming or another named jail. This method turns Sullivan's missing local jail into a useful routing fact and prevents a transfer record from being mistaken for community release.
Note: A courthouse address on a commercial directory is not evidence of an inmate roster, admissions desk, or release counter.
Request Lycoming Release Records
Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know resources explain forms, fees, and appeals for agency records. Send the jail request to the current Lycoming records custodian. Ask for existing records sufficient to show booking, admission, discharge, release type, authority, and destination for the named person and date range. Prefer electronic copies and ask for a fee estimate.
A separate Sullivan request may seek the sheriff transport entry. Court orders belong with the judicial custodian, not the county executive open-records route. Splitting the requests avoids asking one agency to produce a record owned by another.
Under Pennsylvania law, an agency ordinarily grants, denies, or invokes an allowed extension within five business days. Some material may be redacted or withheld under a valid exemption. Ask for segregable nonexempt fields and retain the request, proof of delivery, extension notice, denial, and appeal instructions.
Lycoming Release Versus Transfer
Release on bail, recognizance, time served, or another community disposition differs from transfer. State transport, a writ, detainer, another county jail, PA DOC reception, USMS custody, or ICE custody all keep the person within a custodial system. Read the destination before using the word released.
- Community release
- The jail ends physical custody without naming another custodial recipient.
- Transfer
- One custodian closes its record as another accepts the person.
- Parole
- Release from confinement into supervised legal custody, not sentence completion.
- Discharge record
- The facility entry tying the person, booking, time, reason, authority, and destination together.
VINELink may report “out of custody,” released, transferred, or other agency wording. Preserve that phrase. Then use the Lycoming record and the next named system to determine what happened after the facility exit.
For a community exit, compare the jail event with bail, disposition, sentence-credit, or supervision entries on the Sullivan docket. If the docket shows a separate warrant or commitment, ask whether it controlled the next movement. One favorable court result does not cancel every other hold. The facility record and court history should identify the same booking, legal authority, and sequence of events before a final release statement is made.