Montour Prison Release Paths
Montour County Prison can hold a person committed from Sullivan County when a valid placement arrangement and individual commitment support that admission. The Sullivan sheriff may transport the person, but Montour becomes the physical custodian. Its discharge transaction is therefore the key source for the time, reason, authority, and destination when that booking ends.
A community release might follow bail, a court order, sentence credit, time served, sentence expiration, or parole within the proper jurisdiction. Other exits continue custody. A return for court, writ movement, transfer to PA DOC, another county jail, USMS, or ICE is not freedom from confinement. The word “released” on one agency's system can mean released from that agency alone. Always read the destination field and compare the next system's admission date.
Confirm Montour Release Placement
The April 2024 Sullivan commissioners minutes establish an agreement, but the contract is only a lead for an individual search. Obtain the commitment or ask the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office where the named person was transported. A roster search should not begin from the assumption that every Sullivan detainee went to Montour.
- Search the UJS Web Portal for the Sullivan County criminal docket and save the docket or OTN.
- Review bail, commitment, sentencing, transport, and modification entries for any named jail.
- Call the Sullivan sheriff when the public docket does not reveal the receiving institution.
- Confirm that Montour admitted the person by matching more than a name.
- Record the exact admission date and any facility identifier before requesting discharge fields.
Sullivan has used multiple outside prisons at different times and for different needs. Clinton has stronger current principal-destination evidence. Wyoming, Lycoming, and Columbia also appear in dated placement evidence. A Montour contract does not rule out those paths or a later move into state or federal custody.
Note: A contract rate or renewal clause documents county policy, not a person-level admission or release.
Verify Montour Prison Release
After placement is confirmed, use Montour's current official custody, records, or open-records route. If the facility provides a roster, treat it as a current-custody tool unless it expressly labels released results. A missing person may have been released, transferred, entered under a name variation, or not yet updated.
- Check the Montour record and PA SAVIN/VINELink agency result when offered.
- Match legal name with a booking number, birth information, docket, OTN, or another stable identifier.
- Ask for discharge date and time, release type, releasing court or authority, and destination.
- Compare those fields with the Sullivan docket and sheriff transport record.
- Search the next custodian if Montour lists a transfer to PA DOC, another jail, USMS, or ICE.
The county-wide Sullivan County release record search explains the separate state, federal, court, and notification systems. Montour should remain the source for the booking it processed. A PA DOC search is relevant only if the person entered state custody or state parole supervision.
Montour Release Record Inventory
A precise request seeks existing administrative records rather than asking staff to decide whether someone “is free.” Give a narrow date range and enough identifiers to distinguish the correct admission. Request the booking image separately because access to a photo may receive a different review.
| Record field | Question answered |
|---|---|
| Booking or inmate identifier | Which Montour admission does the record concern? |
| Admission date and time | When did Montour custody begin? |
| Committing agency and case | How does the booking connect to Sullivan County? |
| Release date and time | When did Montour close the booking? |
| Release reason | Was the action bond, time served, parole, court release, or transfer? |
| Releasing authority | Which court or agency authorized the action? |
| Destination or receiving agency | Did the person enter the community or another custody system? |
The release date alone is incomplete. It can be misread when a person left Montour for state reception or another jail. Ask for charges and holds when they are part of the releasable administrative record because those entries may explain why a court order did not lead to immediate community exit.
Request Montour Release Records
Montour County should receive the request for records created by Montour County Prison. Sullivan County should receive a separate request for its sheriff transport or destination record. The Sullivan court should receive the request for the actual bail, commitment, sentencing, or later order. Splitting these requests respects custody and reduces “no responsive record” replies.
Under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law, request existing records sufficient to show admission and discharge for the named person within defined dates. List the specific fields needed. Ask for electronic copies, an advance fee estimate, and redaction of exempt information with production of the remaining portions. The Office of Open Records forms page provides statewide forms and fee guidance.
An agency ordinarily has five business days to grant, deny, or invoke an allowed extension. Keep the submission, delivery proof, extension letter, denial, and cited exemptions. If a phone call cannot confirm the event, ask which current Montour form and records officer should receive the written request. Do not seek confidential medical, juvenile, security, or victim information.
Note: The research supplies no verified Montour release-record fee, address, phone, or office hours, so confirm those facts on the current official county source.
Montour Release Contact Route
No verified Montour County Prison address, phone, or public hours were included in the assigned research. Those details must not be guessed or copied from a commercial directory. First verify the institutional name in the commitment, then obtain the current records contact from Montour County's official government source.
Montour County Prison
Official address: confirm through Montour County
Records phone: confirm through Montour County
Public hours: confirm before visiting
Sullivan placement identification
Sullivan County Sheriff's Office
245 Muncy Street, P.O. Box 157
Laporte, PA 18626
570-946-7361
Use the Sullivan contact only to identify the destination and request sheriff-created transport information. Direct Montour booking, discharge, and booking-photo requests to Montour. Court orders remain with the Sullivan judiciary. Each agency can correct only the database or record it created.
Montour Release Agreement History
Sullivan commissioners' official April 9, 2024 minutes approved a one-year Montour confinement agreement with annual renewal terms. The stated placement rate was $70 per day. The record also assigns additional costs for medical and dental care, special footwear or diet, special needs, and transportation.
This dated arrangement belongs in the facility history. It does not prove that it remains active unchanged, that it covered every type of placement, or that a particular person was housed there. Recheck current status with both counties when the placement matters.
The agreement also shows why a copied “Sullivan County Jail” address is not useful. Sullivan's correctional path depends on the individual commitment and outside capacity. A historic Montour admission requires Montour's record. A later Clinton admission requires Clinton's record. Follow the person, not the county label.
Montour Release Terms Defined
Exact language prevents a transfer from being reported as release. Preserve the terms printed in the facility record and explain them with the court and next-agency entries.
- Bond or bail
- Pretrial release subject to the case and conditions. It is not a dismissal.
- Time served
- A release tied to sentence credit and the written sentence calculation.
- Parole
- Release from confinement into supervision, not full sentence completion.
- Detainer
- A hold or notice from another authority that can delay release or cause transfer.
- Transfer
- A change of custodian, such as Montour to PA DOC, not a community discharge.
When dates disagree, identify which office created each one. The court order date, sheriff transport time, Montour admission, Montour discharge, and next-agency admission can all differ without being errors. A sound custody timeline preserves each event rather than forcing one date to stand for all of them.
Montour and Sullivan Jail Error
The Montour placement history should not be merged with the courthouse address in Laporte. Official Sullivan records identify 245 Muncy Street as the courthouse and sheriff office, not an operating county prison. PA DOC county-prison information also does not list a Sullivan correctional institution. A private “Sullivan County Jail” entry at that address cannot prove that Montour admitted or released anyone.
Use the Sullivan courthouse offices to obtain the docket, commitment, and transport destination. Use Montour County for a Montour booking or discharge. This division also makes corrections more direct: the sheriff can review its transport record, the court can review its docket, and Montour can review its jail data. One custodian should not be asked to rewrite another agency's record.