Federal/ICE/USMS Contract Beds Release Records

St. Clair Federal Custody Layers

The St. Clair County Sheriff’s 2023 Annual Report states that the Detention and Intervention Center contracts with ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. An official 2022 ICE inspection also documented county, ICE, BOP, and USMS populations at the same Sheriff-operated center. Those sources establish a mixed-custody setting. They do not turn the contract population into a second physical facility or prove that each historical contract is unchanged today.

Legal authority controls the search route. A sentenced federal prisoner is usually tracked through BOP. A federal pretrial defendant may remain under USMS custody while held in rented local jail space. An immigration detainee may be in ICE custody even though county staff operate the building. The local roster can show present physical placement, while the responsible federal agency controls a transfer or release decision.

Confirm a Federal Contract Departure

Start with the St. Clair current-custody lookup only to test whether the Sheriff still reports the person in the building. A missing entry does not say where the person went. Request the county booking and release record, asking for the holding agency, exact local exit timestamp, release authority, receiving agency, and transfer destination when those fields are maintained and disclosable.

Then follow the legal custodian. Use agency numbers when possible because a register number or A-number separates similar names more reliably than spelling alone.

1. Record the person’s full name, date of birth, local booking number, federal register number, A-number, and court case number when available.
2. Ask whether the local record shows BOP, ICE, USMS, another jail, or community as the receiving path.
3. Search the locator that matches that authority and read its status terms narrowly.
4. Compare the locator date with the local release timestamp and any federal court detention or release order.
5. Contact the responsible agency when the public tools do not resolve a transfer or historical event.

The full St. Clair County release-record search gives the county and court sequence for a mixed local case. Keep each source in its lane. A jail record establishes the local event, a federal locator reports within its own coverage, and a court order establishes legal authority.

St. Clair BOP Release Results

The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal inmates from 1982 onward. It searches by BOP register, DCDC, FBI, or INS number, or by name with age, race, and sex refiners. Results include the name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location. This nationwide system is the right public source for a federal sentenced person, even when that person once occupied a St. Clair County contract bed.

The BOP field explanation gives exact meanings. A future release date is projected and may change. A past date with no facility indicates release from BOP on that date. Location “RELEASED” means the person is no longer in BOP custody. “IN TRANSIT” is not a release status, and “UNKNOWN” means the confinement term is not determined. Community Corrections Management describes BOP community-placement administration, not necessarily unrestricted community release.

Projected date

A future BOP date that can change before the event.

Released

No longer in BOP custody, based on the locator’s federal scope.

In transit

Movement within custody, not proof of release.

Supervised release

A court-ordered federal supervision period that can follow imprisonment.

A BOP release never proves freedom from every sovereign. State custody, ICE custody, another detainer, or supervision may follow. BOP statistics also separate transfers to another jurisdiction from ordinary release-to-location counts, which supports the same careful distinction.

Note: Use the BOP register number when known and save the access date because custody and projected release fields can change.

St. Clair ICE Custody Checks

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System searches for adults currently in ICE custody or in qualifying CBP custody for more than 48 hours. The number search uses a nine-digit A-number and country of birth; leading zeros must be added when needed. The biographical route uses name and identity details. The locator does not cover minors and is not a dependable historical release ledger.

A no-result has several possible meanings. The person may not be in present ICE custody, may be outside the tool’s covered population, may be entered under different biographical data, or may require direct agency follow-up. It does not prove community release or the end of an immigration case. Compare the response with the Sheriff’s transfer notation rather than converting a blank result into a firm conclusion.

An ICE detainer is a request that another law-enforcement agency notify ICE before an otherwise expected release and maintain custody for up to 48 additional hours so DHS can assume custody. Thus, completion of a local case can lead to an ICE handoff. Ask whether the St. Clair County record identifies the releasing or receiving agency, then use ICE channels for the current location.

The A-number and country of birth route is more exact when those details are known. Keep the A-number distinct from the county booking number and any BOP register number. If the locator supplies a contact direction rather than a person-level result, follow that official direction and retain the query date. Current-custody tools can change after a transfer.

St. Clair USMS Release Evidence

The U.S. Marshals Service prisoner information describes federal custody from a court commitment through acquittal or delivery to BOP, including the use of rented local jail space. That pattern explains why a federal defendant may appear at the county center without appearing as a sentenced BOP prisoner. BOP is not a substitute for the federal court record in a pending prosecution.

USMS offers no public historical released-person locator comparable to BOP. For a pretrial defendant, locate the federal court case and read the detention, bond, release, acquittal, or commitment order. The order may establish authority, but the St. Clair custodial record remains the better source for the actual time the person left the local building. For a person delivered to serve a federal sentence, continue with BOP.

A narrowly framed USMS Freedom of Information Act request may seek an existing agency record, but law-enforcement and privacy exemptions can apply. Give identifiers and a limited date range. Avoid asking the agency to produce a new narrative from facts held across several systems.

A federal court release order and a jail departure can occur at different times. Staff may still have to check another warrant, detainer, or receiving-agency instruction. Keep the order time, local exit time, and any later federal locator update as separate events. If the person was acquitted or the federal charge ended, that fact still does not resolve an unrelated state, county, or immigration hold.

For a sentenced person, delivery to BOP is a custody continuation. For a pretrial person, release conditions remain in the court order even after physical detention ends. These distinctions explain why neither a blank BOP search nor disappearance from the county roster establishes the whole outcome.

Federal Contract Release Records

The local half of the evidence comes from the Sheriff Service Bureau at 1170 Michigan Road, Port Huron, MI 48060. Written requests may be delivered there or faxed to 810-966-4302. Records staff can be reached at 810-987-1704 during Service Bureau hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. General Sheriff inquiries use 810-987-1700, while jail information uses 810-987-1720.

Request the booking identifiers, local intake and release timestamps, listed holding agency, release authority or disposition, holds, and transfer destination. Under Michigan FOIA, the public body issues a grant, denial, partial grant, or permitted extension notice within the statutory response period. Redactions and exemptions may apply. The county’s published report, handling, and photograph charges should be confirmed against the current form before filing.

The facility itself is at the same address. That fact should not blur control. The Sheriff can address its maintained local record, but only the responsible federal agency can resolve its own custody status, future action, or record.

When records conflict, compare their timestamps before assuming an error. A Sheriff entry can close when a federal agency accepts the person, while the receiving locator may update later. The two records can describe consecutive, accurate events. Ask for correction only after identity numbers, dates, and agencies have been reconciled.

The Sheriff’s published local charges include $5 for the first report page, $1 for each added page, a $15 handling fee, and $1 per photograph placed on CDR. Those are county charges, not a federal fee schedule. Narrow the request to one person and booking range, ask for an estimate, and file a separate request with the federal record owner when the county response names a transfer but does not contain the later federal event.

The holding-authority field is central in St. Clair County because people under different legal systems can occupy beds in the same building. Include the county booking number, federal register or A-number when known, and the federal court case in one event timeline. Those identifiers help distinguish a local discharge from a USMS move, BOP designation, or ICE transfer without treating a gap between live systems as proof of community release.