Bolivar Facility Release Paths
Bolivar County Correctional Facility is a regional correctional facility, not a simple single-population county lockup. The official MDOC facility profile identifies it as a regional site. Mississippi regional facilities operate under county sheriff authority through agreements with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. A county-appointed warden manages daily operations, while MDOC monitors the state-prison part. Two people at the same Cleveland address can therefore leave under different legal systems.
A local pretrial detainee may return to the community on bond, recognizance, dismissal, or a court order. A person serving a local sentence may leave after time served or sentence completion. Another person may move to MDOC, another county, federal custody, or a different agency. Those are transfers, not community releases. An MDOC prisoner may leave institutional custody for parole or earned-release supervision, or may receive a full discharge at sentence expiration. Ask for the legal custodian, release authority, destination, and receiving agency rather than relying on an out-date alone.
| Custody path | Best confirmation | Possible next status |
|---|---|---|
| Local booking | Facility release or movement record | Community, court-ordered release, or transfer |
| MDOC sentence | MDOC offender detail and discharge records | Parole, ERS, discharge, or another institution |
| Outside agency hold | Facility destination field plus receiving agency | County, state, federal, or immigration custody |
Confirm Bolivar Facility Releases
Begin with the identity that belongs to the exact custody episode. Use the full legal name, aliases, date of birth, approximate booking dates, arresting agency, and booking number when known. For a local booking, telephone staff can provide a useful current answer, but the written booking and release record is stronger. For an MDOC prisoner, use the state number because it remains stable as names and locations change.
- Call the facility and ask which authority held the person at the time of exit.
- Ask whether the record says community release, transfer, parole, ERS, discharge, or another movement.
- For local custody, request the booking number, out-date and time, release authority, and destination.
- For state custody, search the MDOC Inmate Search, open the matching detail, and compare identity, conviction county, location, sentence, and tentative date.
- Confirm the legal basis through the proper court, MDOC Records, Parole Board, or receiving custodian.
The full named-person county search and release-record route is available on the Bolivar County released inmates search. A current custody list is only a snapshot. Once a person leaves a roster, the release or movement entry becomes the more useful record.
Bolivar Facility Release Records
A narrow written request should identify one person and one booking. Ask for the booking date and time, release date and time, release reason or authority, charges tied to that episode, bond information when relevant, receiving agency or destination, and the booking photograph if needed. The Bolivar County public-records page routes requests but does not publish a jail-specific online form. Call first to verify the preferred delivery method.
Bolivar County Correctional Facility
2792 MS Highway 8 West
Cleveland, MS 38732
Phone: 662-843-7478
Public records hours are not published. Call before visiting.
Mississippi public-records law allows reasonable procedures and actual-cost fees. Bolivar County has not published a facility release-record or booking-photo fee schedule, so request a cost estimate before work begins. Some material may be redacted or withheld, including youth-court records, sealed or expunged matters, medical data, victim information, protected identifiers, and security-sensitive details. Ask for the legal basis for any withholding and for all reasonably separable public fields.
When the release was ordered by a court, also request the bond order, dismissal, judgment, sentencing order, amended order, or other docket entry that explains the authority. The court entry may show when release was authorized. Facility staff document when the person physically left. Preserve both dates when they differ because they answer different questions.
Bolivar Regional Custody Records
The regional model creates a local search fork. A person held before trial or for a short local term can have a county booking trail without an MDOC offender record. By contrast, a person serving an MDOC sentence at the same address should have an MDOC number, state sentence data, a facility location, and a Tentative Release Date on the public detail when those fields are available. County of conviction, current facility, and county of booking are separate facts.
The official facility page is a directory, not a live roster or recent-release feed. No official Bolivar County online 24-hour or 72-hour release list was found. No published roster retention period, mobile jail app, release schedule, or public data refresh cadence was found either. A missing online name should therefore be treated as unresolved until the facility supplies the movement record.
- Release
- An exit to the community under legal authority.
- Transfer
- A move from one custodian or legal authority to another.
- Parole
- Conditional community release granted by the Mississippi State Parole Board.
- ERS
- Earned-release supervision under MDOC authority before sentence expiration.
- Discharge
- Completion of the controlling sentence or supervision obligation.
Official Bolivar Facility Source
The MDOC Bolivar facility page is the best online source for the site's official name, regional classification, address, and phone.
The captured page supports facility identity and contact routing. It does not prove that a named person was released, and it should not be read as a custody roster.
Bolivar Facility History Trap
The former Bolivar County Community Work Center or satellite is not a current release destination. MDOC published a closure notice, and its March 2026 population report listed the Bolivar Satellite Facility with zero capacity and zero population while reporting the regional facility separately. Old web pages or directory entries can still blur the two names.
Use the current regional facility name when asking about a present custody event. If an older record names the work center, treat it as historical and use MDOC Records to trace later movements. Do not call the closed satellite a place where current releases are processed. The operating regional facility and the former work center are not interchangeable.
Note: Current MDOC facility records should control when an old directory still names the closed Bolivar work center.
MDOC Releases From Bolivar
MDOC state-prison release is more structured than a local bond-out. The agency's Family and Friends FAQ says a case manager verifies travel plans, the process can take 30 to 45 days, and a discharge certificate is required before release. Parole and ERS dates are not guaranteed. The public Tentative Release Date is a planning clue, not proof that the person crossed the exit on that date.
If supervision follows, the person may report through MDOC Community Corrections, including the Bolivar Probation & Parole Office when assigned. A sentence-expiration discharge may end state custody without supervision. Request the offender data sheet, public movement and status entries, release authorization, release type and date, and discharge certificate through the MDOC public-records channel. Use one MDOC number and a date range. Medical, security, victim, and other exempt fields may be withheld.
MDOC may provide an in-state bus ticket during its own release planning when requested. That policy does not establish a ride, bus stop, waiting area, or transport service for a county bond release from the same building. Local release travel must be arranged and confirmed separately.
Bolivar Release Authority Checks
A complete account joins the physical exit with its legal basis. For a Bolivar felony case, determine whether the First Judicial Circuit in Rosedale or the Second Judicial Circuit in Cleveland handled it. Municipal and justice courts may hold city charges, misdemeanors, and initial appearances. A no-match at one clerk counter does not establish that no case exists.
After a transfer, follow the receiving agency. An MDOC transfer calls for the statewide offender record. A U.S. Marshals transfer is federal pretrial custody and may not appear in the BOP locator. An ICE detainer requires the ICE locator or ERO confirmation. No dedicated federal or ICE detention facility was identified in Bolivar County, so do not infer that an outside hold exists without the actual destination field.
The best evidence chain is the facility release or movement record, the court or board authority, and the receiving or supervising agency when custody continues. Each document answers one part of the event. Together they distinguish a true Bolivar County community release from an administrative handoff.