Check Calhoun CI Release Records

Calhoun CI Release Paths

Florida Department of Corrections can release a Calhoun CI prisoner at sentence expiration or under a statutory release mechanism. Depending on the sentence and governing law, a person may leave prison under community supervision, conditional release, or parole for a limited parole-eligible legacy population. Physical departure does not always end the sentence or all state control. The FDC record should be read for both the date-out event and any active supervision episode.

A move from Calhoun CI to another FDC institution, a hospital, or a court trip remains state custody. The institution line can change while the prison sentence continues. Likewise, an old Calhoun C.I. entry in incarceration history only shows that the person was housed there during that period. It does not prove a current placement or show where the person lives after release.

Confirm a Calhoun CI Release

The FDC Inmate Release Information Search is the released-first route for people who served Florida prison sentences. It covers state inmates already released or scheduled for release and is updated nightly. The broader all-databases search helps when the person's category is uncertain. Neither search is a county booking roster, and neither covers a person whose only custody was a local jail term.

Follow a record in this order:

1. Search by the six-character DC number when known, or use full name and available identity filters.
2. Match committed name, aliases, birth date, photograph, sentencing county, case, offense, and sentence.
3. Read the exact Current Status label and current institution or supervision location.
4. Review incarceration history for the Calhoun CI stay and the actual date-out event.
5. Check community-supervision history for probation, parole, conditional release, or another active term.
6. For an official clarification, request the release or discharge record from FDC using the DC number.

Name searches use prefixes and can return several people. Identity should never rest on a similar name or photograph alone. The DC number, sentence county, case number, and date history form a stronger match. Broader Calhoun County search routes are explained in the released inmates record search.

Calhoun CI Release Record Fields

An FDC public detail can show identifying data, a DC number, photograph, current status, current facility or supervision office, aliases, physical description, sentence history, offense and case data, incarceration history, and community-supervision history. The dedicated release detail uses the reader-facing label Current Release Date. That date must be read with status and the recorded date-out event.

The photograph is an FDC identification image, not necessarily the booking photograph from Calhoun County. A released database can also contain a deceased record. For that reason, the database category itself should not be rewritten as proof that a living person entered the community. Read all the displayed status facts together.

Note: A historic Calhoun CI line identifies a past state placement and does not establish the person's current location.

Calhoun CI Records Contact

The current FDC institution listing identifies Calhoun CI at the Institution Drive address in Blountstown. As of the research date, it listed Warden Patricia Rodgers, a capacity of 1,221, and visiting hours of 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Central. Those operational facts can change. Confirm them on the official institution page before travel. Visiting hours do not establish when a release is processed.

The official Calhoun CI listing is shown in the successful research capture below.

The same official listing marks the associated Work Camp temporarily closed, which keeps the main prison and satellite status from being confused.

Calhoun CI Discharge Records

Use the FDC public-record request route for an official incarceration and release history, release-type clarification, sentence data, or an available FDC photograph. Include the full name, DC number, birth date, and the exact fields or period needed. State whether an electronic copy is enough or a certified record is required for a court matter.

FDC central records, rather than the institution switchboard, is the durable records path. The research identifies James Best as Custodian of Public Records at 501 South Calhoun Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399, with assistance at (850) 717-9774. For data questions, FDC also publishes the Bureau of Admission and Release at (850) 488-9167 and dc.release@fdc.myflorida.com, plus Classification and Central Records at (850) 488-9859 and central.classification@fdc.myflorida.com.

An FDC record cannot certify the earlier end of a Calhoun County Jail booking unless that event became part of the state file. If a person moved from the jail into FDC, use the CCSO transaction for the county handoff and the FDC history for the state custody that followed.

Calhoun CI Projected Release Dates

Florida law calls the gain-time projection a tentative release date. FDC's public detail uses Current Release Date as its interface label. Before the person leaves, that field may reflect a calculation rather than an accomplished release. Gain-time awards, forfeiture after disciplinary action, restoration, added sentences, corrected jail credit, court amendments, escape, or a parole violation can move a controlling date.

Section 944.275 establishes the tentative release date and maximum sentence expiration concepts. For covered offenses committed on or after October 1, 1995, gain-time generally cannot cause release before at least 85 percent of the imposed sentence is served, including lawful jail credit. Offense dates and exceptions matter, so a sentence should not be multiplied by a simple percentage to announce a day of release.

After the projected day, reopen the FDC record. Look for the changed status and an actual date-out entry. If supervision follows, the person may be out of Calhoun CI while still subject to state terms. An agency record is stronger proof than the date that appeared before release processing finished.

Note: A tentative date is a calculation, not an appointment time or proof that a Calhoun CI exit occurred.

Calhoun CI Release Detainers

An FDC release detail may display detainer information with an agency, type, and cancellation status. A detainer is a request or notice from another authority concerning custody or legal action. It can affect where a person goes when FDC authority ends. The public record should be read for the exact agency and status rather than assuming every date-out means direct release to the community.

Calhoun County's historical 2019 ICE agreement dealt with the county jail and a criminal-custody handoff. It should not be treated as Calhoun CI's release policy. For a state prisoner, the controlling sources are FDC records and the agency named on any current detainer. If ICE becomes the receiving custodian, the official ICE locator can help with present detention, but its absence is not a durable discharge record.

A county warrant or federal matter can also affect destination. Ask FDC for release-type and receiving-agency clarification when the public detail is incomplete. This avoids turning a prison departure into an unsupported claim about community status.

Calhoun CI Release History Context

An FDC PREA audit from 2015 described Calhoun Correctional Institution as built in 1987 and opened in January 1988. It also reported that the Work Camp opened in 1995. Those dates add historical context, but an older audit cannot prove current capacity, operations, or conditions. Current status comes from the live FDC institution listing.

Calhoun's geography makes agency labeling especially important. The CCSO county jail and state prison are both in Blountstown, but they hold different populations under different custodians. Someone convicted in Calhoun County can be housed at another FDC institution. Someone at Calhoun CI may have been sentenced in a different Florida county. Searching only by facility name can therefore miss the person's full state history.

The temporarily closed Calhoun CI Work Camp record is a historical FDC route, not an active independent release point. A move between the camp and main prison was a state custody movement. The statewide DC-number record is what connects those placements to any later discharge.