Montgomery Forecast Versus Actual Release
MDOC calls the public forecast Tentative Release Date. That wording is exact and important. It is not an actual release date, a parole grant, or an unconditional discharge. The same detail can show Entry Date, Location, Location Change Date, total sentence length, and sentence rows. Read those fields together. A location change may mark a transfer, not a return to the community.
A county or regional facility may use “Scheduled Release” in its own record. Montgomery County's historical regional-facility material shows that field beside Status, Court, booking identifiers, and Billed To. Scheduled Release remains a forecast. A row marked RELEASED described status at the time of that dated snapshot, while “Billed To Montgomery Co Sheriff Off” linked the custody cost to Montgomery. Neither field alone proves where the person is now.
A pretrial detainee usually has no computed sentence-end date. Bond, dismissal, plea, time-served judgment, or another court order may authorize release, but processing and separate holds still affect the physical exit. A court outcome proves the legal result in that case. It may not record the time the jail released the person.
Find a Montgomery Projected Release
Start with the last known custodian. Montgomery County detainees may be held at Carroll County Regional Correctional Facility in Vaiden, which is across the county line. State prisoners use MDOC. A person leaving the regional facility for MDOC, another county, USMS, or ICE has transferred rather than gained community release. The system that receives the person becomes the next lookup point.
- Collect the full legal name, date of birth, booking or case number, MDOC ID if known, arresting agency, and the approximate custody dates.
- For a state prisoner, open the MDOC Inmate Search. Search by MDOC ID when possible, or use first and last name with spelling variants.
- Open the matching detail. Compare date of birth, conviction county, offense, sentence date, Entry Date, Location, and Location Change Date before recording Tentative Release Date.
- For a county or regional detainee, call the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department at 662-283-3343 to identify the holding facility. If Carroll County Regional is involved, call 662-464-5440.
- Obtain the judgment from the correct court. Ask the custodian for the release computation, actual release date and time, disposition, and any destination or receiving agency that is public.
- If the public date is unclear, request the MDOC time sheet, jail credit, tentative date, maximum date, actual release or discharge, and supervision status from MDOC Records.
The official MDOC search form shows its three inputs: First Name, Last Name, and MDOC ID Number.
The narrow form makes identity checks after the search essential, especially when people share a name.
Note: Date each screenshot or note so a later MDOC update can be distinguished from a transcription error.
Montgomery MDOC Release Date Fields
The MDOC detail is a state-prison source. It should not be applied to every person who leaves Montgomery County custody. Bond releases, dismissed cases, short county sentences, and many probation dispositions may never produce an MDOC inmate record. In the other direction, a person sent from county custody into MDOC has not yet been released to the community.
| MDOC field | What it helps establish | Important limit |
|---|---|---|
| MDOC ID | Precise agency identifier for the person and requests | Confirm identity details before relying on the record |
| Entry Date | When the MDOC custody record began | Not the county booking date in every case |
| Location | Current listed MDOC placement | A change may show transfer, not release |
| Location Change Date | Timing of the listed placement change | Does not state the full reason by itself |
| Sentence details | Term, offense, county, and sentence date | Multiple or consecutive terms can affect computation |
| Tentative Release Date | MDOC's present public forecast | Not proof that release occurred |
The official MDOC example detail illustrates the exact public field label and the surrounding identity, location, and sentence data.
The image is a field example, not a claim about the named person's current status. A former inmate missing from the public interface may have discharged, used another name or ID, had an older record not shown, or never entered MDOC.
Montgomery Earned-Time Release Rules
For eligible sentences imposed after June 30, 1995, Miss. Code §47-5-138 permits 4.5 days of earned time for each 30 days served, capped at 15 percent of the sentence. This is the source of the familiar 85 percent shorthand. It is a ceiling on an eligible allowance, not a promise that each state prisoner leaves after serving exactly 85 percent.
Eligibility exclusions, mandatory portions, classification, conduct, forfeiture, sentence changes, county-jail credit, and residence approval may affect the computation. Life sentences, habitual-offender treatment, certain mandatory-time or sex offenses, escape or attempt issues, and other disqualifying facts can put a case outside the ordinary rule. Older pre-July 1995 sentences have a different statutory framework, so the modern formula should not be carried backward.
ERS is also a legal status, not simple freedom from a sentence. A person released early under this section remains under MDOC jurisdiction and is supervised in a way similar to parole through sentence expiration. If ERS is revoked, the statute provides that the remaining term may be served and that time on ERS does not reduce that remainder.
Why Montgomery's 85% Is Tentative
The 85 percent shortcut can help explain the maximum modern earned-time allowance. It cannot calculate a reliable exit day by itself. The sentence may include a mandatory term, several counts, consecutive time, forfeited credit, or a corrected start date. MDOC also ties qualifying pre-sentence county-jail credit to the cause for which the person is held. Judgment dates, cause numbers, and county certification therefore matter.
The MDOC Inmate Handbook says MDOC establishes parole, ERS, tentative release or discharge, and maximum release dates. Those labels describe different points. Parole eligibility means the Board may consider release. An ERS date concerns a supervised-release framework. A tentative date is a forecast. A maximum date marks another endpoint. The actual release record documents what happened.
Residence approval can also affect ERS. Conduct and eligibility remain relevant. For these reasons, multiplying the sentence by 85 percent and publishing the result would remove facts that only MDOC's current computation can supply. Request the time sheet and ask staff to label each date separately.
What Moves Montgomery Release Dates
A projected date can change for several supported reasons. Some move the calculation itself. Others keep a person in custody after one case appears complete. When two official dates differ, preserve both terms and ask whether they refer to eligibility, ERS, sentence discharge, transfer, or physical exit.
| Factor | How it can affect the date | Record to check |
|---|---|---|
| Jail credit correction | Changes the sentence begin date or credited time | Judgment, county certification, MDOC time sheet |
| Modified or consecutive sentence | Adds, removes, or changes the order of terms | Latest signed court order and sentence rows |
| Disciplinary forfeiture | Reduces earned credit that had affected the forecast | MDOC computation and disciplinary record |
| Detainer or hold | Another agency may assume custody after one term ends | Release disposition and receiving-agency record |
| Parole action | Eligibility, grant, denial, or revocation changes the legal path | Board decision and MDOC record |
| ERS approval | Eligibility, conduct, or residence review may affect the community date | MDOC time sheet and supervision record |
A detainer is a request or hold from another authority. It can mean a person leaves one facility yet enters another agency's custody. A court dismissal or time-served result in one case does not clear unrelated holds, case numbers, or consecutive terms. Ask the jail for the release record tied to the order after checking the other cases.
Montgomery County Sentence Dates
No official Montgomery County good-time policy, weekend-release rule, or local sentence calculator was found. MDOC's state-prison 15 percent framework should not be applied automatically to a county sentence. Obtain the judgment and jail-credit language from the relevant clerk. Then ask the sheriff or holding facility to explain its computation and provide the actual release record.
The Montgomery County courts divide the record path. Justice Court handles misdemeanors and preliminary felony matters. Circuit Court holds felony dispositions and judgments. A signed order may show dismissal, probation, time served, or another sentence outcome, but it may not show the mechanical exit time. Processing and checks for other holds come after legal authorization. If a date falls on a weekend or holiday, call the custodian because no sourced local rule supports assuming early or late release.
The sheriff is the county custody and records doorway at 614 Summit Street, Winona, MS 38967, 662-283-3343. Carroll County Regional Correctional Facility is at 33714 Mississippi Highway 35, Vaiden, MS 39176, 662-464-5440. Ask which office owns the operational record before sending a request. The broader Montgomery County released inmates lookup explains how county, regional, court, and state records fit together.
Note: “Time served” describes a sentence result, but it does not prove the minute when release processing ended.
Confirm Montgomery's Actual Release Date
Once a forecast appears, save the exact label, the date checked, MDOC ID, Location, Location Change Date, and sentence data. Request the time sheet if the date matters to a court or records process. Ask separately for parole eligibility, ERS, tentative, and maximum dates. They are not interchangeable.
MDOC Records is at P.O. Box 24388, Jackson, MS 39225, 601-933-2889, and MDOCRecordsDepartment@mdoc.state.ms.us. Formal requests can use MDOC GovQA. Include the person's MDOC ID and the judgment or cause number. When disputing a date, identify the jail credit, sentence entry, or document believed to be wrong. The sentencing clerk may need to correct or certify the source record before the public calculation changes.
Mississippi SAVIN/VINE may provide a future event alert for MDOC and participating county agencies. Registration is useful for notice, but the event is not a certified release record. After an alert, confirm the disposition and destination with the named agency. The full registration process appears on the VINE Inmate Check page.
The strongest final proof is the actual MDOC release or discharge record for a state prisoner, or the facility release record for a county detainee, reconciled with the court order. Do not recast a past tentative date as “released on” without that final check.