Find La Salle Regional Releases

Regional Detention Center Release Outcomes

A departure from the La Salle County Regional Detention Center can have several meanings. ICE may release a person under immigration conditions, transfer the person to another detention site, or carry out a removal. A federal court may order release in a USMS matter. The Marshals Service may also move a prisoner to another contract facility or, after sentencing, toward a Bureau of Prisons designation. Each event ends the Encinal stay but not necessarily government custody.

The record should identify the legal custodian, departure date, event type, and destination. For an ICE case, reconcile the facility or Enforcement and Removal Operations response with the immigration custody and case records. For a USMS case, use the facility and federal criminal docket. The BOP locator is relevant only after BOP designation. The county sheriff’s jail record cannot certify what happened later merely because an earlier transfer began in county custody.

Confirm Regional Detention Center Releases

Begin with the strongest identifier. Immigration files use an A-number, while federal criminal records may use a case number and USMS or later BOP identifiers. Do not substitute a county booking number for an A-number or BOP register number. Exact names and dates of birth help, but a shared name is not enough to select a record.

1. Confirm that the person was held at the Encinal facility and identify ICE or USMS as the custodian.
2. For ICE, search ODLS with the nine-digit A-number and country of birth. Pad a shorter A-number with leading zeroes when required.
3. If no A-number is available, use exact first and last name, country of birth, and date of birth. Recheck spelling and date formats.
4. Contact the facility or responsible ERO office and ask whether the outcome was release, removal, or transfer.
5. For USMS custody, check the federal criminal docket and ask the facility about the movement. Use BOP only if designation occurred.
6. Preserve each result and reconcile its date, status, and destination with the court record.

A current immigration check-in is not detention. EOIR case status concerns immigration adjudication, not physical custody. Keep the check-in, court, and detention records on separate timeline lines. The same rule applies in federal criminal cases: a court order may authorize release before facility staff complete the physical movement.

Regional Detention Center ODLS Limits

ICE’s Online Detainee Locator covers current ICE or CBP custody and people released from ICE within a stated recent period. ICE documents a 60-day released-person scope. People under 18 are excluded. A result can help locate a current detainee or recently released adult, but ODLS is not a permanent release archive.

After the 60-day window, disappearance proves nothing about the outcome. A person may have been released, removed, transferred, or recorded under inputs that no longer match the search. Contact the facility or ERO and obtain the agency record. If ODLS previously showed Encinal and now returns nothing, ask specifically for custody-end type, date, and receiving site or authority.

The ICE attorney-resource page explains the recent released-person limit. Review the official ICE scope before interpreting the captured page.

The source supports a narrow timing rule. It does not convert ODLS into a complete historical record or supply the reason a detention entry ended.

Regional Center Federal Custody Transfers

The Regional Detention Center is listed by ICE as a USMS intergovernmental agreement facility. A sheriff record that says “released to ICE” or “released to USMS” describes a transfer between sovereign authorities. It is not a community release. Follow the receiving authority from that timestamp forward.

For ICE, use ODLS, facility or ERO confirmation, and immigration case or bond materials. For USMS, use the federal criminal docket and facility. USMS holds federal prisoners from arrest until acquittal, court-ordered release, or transfer after designation. No public USMS historical released-prisoner locator was found. That gap cannot be filled by assuming BOP held every federal prisoner.

A transfer can also move between federal and state systems. Request the destination field instead of reporting only that the person left Encinal. If the receiving entry is unclear, compare case number, agency identifier, and movement date with the next custodian’s record.

Regional Center BOP Search Boundaries

The Regional Detention Center is not a BOP prison. The Bureau of Prisons locator becomes useful when a sentenced person has been designated into BOP custody. It covers federal inmates from 1982 onward and accepts a BOP, DCDC, FBI, or INS number, or a name search refined by race, age, and sex.

A BOP result can show name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location or status. “Released/Not in BOP Custody” proves only the end of BOP custody. Another justice system, immigration custody, or federal supervised release may follow. First Step Act recalculations may also change dates. BOP release statistics exclude transfers to state, ICE, and other custody, reinforcing the same boundary.

USMS custody

Federal detention commonly covering arrest through acquittal, release order, or later designation.

BOP designation

Placement of a sentenced federal person into Bureau of Prisons responsibility.

Removal

An immigration outcome distinct from release into a United States community.

Transfer

Movement to another custodian without ending all custody.

Regional Detention Center Record Contact

The current ICE directory supplies the confirmed facility address. The research did not establish a direct public facility telephone number, current records hours, or a current private contractor. Those gaps should remain explicit. Contact routing must follow the legal custodian, because ICE and USMS records are created and maintained under different systems.

For an immigration case, ask the facility or responsible ERO office for custody status and the type of departure. Use the appropriate ICE records process for documents. For a federal criminal case, identify the prosecuting court and USMS district, then request the docket and facility movement confirmation. A county open-records request is not a substitute for an ICE or federal agency record.

A focused request should state full name, date of birth, A-number or federal identifier, facility, and a narrow date range. Ask for arrival and departure dates, release or transfer type, receiving authority, and the record’s code definitions. Do not demand that an agency create a new summary that it does not maintain.

ICE and USMS Transfers in Encinal

La Salle County’s facility mix creates an unusual custody-routing problem. The regional center is county-owned and appears in the current ICE directory as a USMS IGA facility. IGA means intergovernmental agreement. It describes the framework used for detention services, not proof that the county sheriff is the legal custodian in every case.

This distinction is the core of a reliable release finding. A person delivered from the county jail into ICE or USMS custody has crossed from one sovereign system to another. ODLS may answer an ICE question. A federal docket and facility record answer a USMS question. BOP answers only after BOP responsibility begins. The building name alone cannot identify the correct locator.

The ICE facility directory is the source for the current listing and address. Its matched capture shows the relevant facility context.

The listing supports the present functional description. It does not identify a current private operator or establish the outcome of any named person’s case.

Two La Salle Detention Missions

Official historical material places Cotulla Unit’s opening in July 1992 and the Regional Detention Center’s opening in 2004. They are separate facilities with different missions. Cotulla Unit is a TDCJ state prison. The Encinal center is a county-owned, ICE-listed USMS IGA or local detention facility. A TDCJ offender search is correct for Cotulla Unit, while ICE, USMS, and federal court channels govern the regional center.

An older ICE inspection described the regional facility as holding ICE detainees for more than 72 hours and named a historical contractor. “Over 72 hours” is a detention classification in that inspection. It is not a 72-hour release list, rolling release period, or proof of how long a named person stayed. No current contract was found, so the historical operator must not be presented as current.

Facility age and mission help prevent a false match. A person can move from one La Salle County building while remaining in custody under a different authority. Always keep the facility, custodian, identifier, and event date together.