BOP Federal Release Results
The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal prisoners from 1982 to the present. It may show Released with a release date or state that a person is not in BOP custody. Those labels describe BOP custody only. A person may have moved to USMS, a state or local authority, or ICE, and a later case may exist.
PHRJCF is not a BOP prison. Its federal role is contract detention for USMS. A departure from that regional jail can precede BOP placement after sentence, so search the docket and both custodians in date order.
| Result | Meaning | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| Released plus date | BOP custody ended on the displayed date | Federal docket and later custodians |
| Not in BOP custody | No current BOP custody shown | USMS, state, local, or ICE facts |
| No match | Identity or scope may differ | Number search and BOP FOIA |
Search BOP Release Records
Open the BOP Inmate Locator. Search by BOP register, DCDC, FBI, or INS number when known. The name route adds age, race, and sex filters. Compare every returned identifier before reading the release line.
- Try the strongest federal number first.
- Use full name and offered filters if needed.
- Record the exact status, date, and register number.
- Check PACER for detention, judgment, and release orders.
- Use BOP FOIA when the locator lacks needed detail.
Request BOP Release Records
Use BOP FOIA for records beyond the locator. Identify the person by full name and register number, give the institution and date range, and ask for existing transfer, designation, and release records. Privacy exemptions can limit access. The federal docket separately holds the judgment and release orders.
Do not send a federal prison request to WVDCR merely because the person has a Mineral County tie. If the person was first held at PHRJCF for USMS, request that facility episode from WVDCR and the later federal episode from the federal custodian.
For older federal custody, include every known number and name form. The locator begins in 1982, so earlier confinement needs a records request. A release date should be quoted with the system that supplied it. It does not establish the end of a later supervision term or custody held by another sovereign. When the docket and locator differ, record the retrieval date and ask the federal custodian for the underlying event.
BOP Release Records Contact
The locator is free and is the first federal source. For records beyond its public result, use the BOP FOIA route. Give the full identity, federal register number, institution, and custody dates. Privacy exemptions can limit third-party access.
Federal Bureau of PrisonsNationwide federal prison system
Use the official locator and FOIA portal
No Mineral County BOP prison was identified
PACER may charge under its current federal fee schedule, so check the live terms rather than assuming a cost.
Mineral Federal Custody Distinctions
A Mineral County address does not make a federal sentence a county-jail sentence. The federal judgment and BOP record control. PHRJCF can hold a USMS detainee under contract, but it remains a WVDCR regional facility and not a BOP institution.
Search systems by custodian and date. A state release may begin federal detention, while a BOP release can precede immigration custody. Do not merge those dates.
BOP Transfer and Detainer Records
WVDCR’s FY2025 report says PHRJCF contractually houses federal detainees for the U.S. Marshals Service. That makes a federal handoff especially important in Mineral County release research. A person can leave the Augusta building but remain detained before trial, move to another contract facility, or enter BOP custody after sentence. None is community release.
Search the federal docket through PACER Case Locator for detention, release, judgment, and transfer context. For a sentenced federal prisoner, search the BOP locator by register number or full identity. ICE should enter the inquiry only when a documented immigration detainer or handoff exists. No official source in the research establishes PHRJCF as an ICE contract facility.
Note: Always ask for the receiving custodian because a PHRJCF departure can mark the start of another agency’s custody.
Historic BOP Release Records
Older WVDCR history shows that Eastern Regional Jail once served several eastern counties before PHRJCF opened and the counties shifted their prisoners. The year of arrest therefore matters. An old Mineral County booking should not be assigned to PHRJCF merely because PHRJCF serves the county now.
Give WVDCR the arrest year, court case number, and known dates, then ask it to route the request to the historical facility or record custodian. The court file can provide a durable second trail. A dated bond, sentence, dismissal, or jail-credit order can narrow the likely custody period even when a former jail record is no longer visible online. This historical routing issue is specific to the Potomac Highlands and can save a request from reaching the wrong records unit.
Read BOP Release Terms
Release labels should be copied exactly. Parole is conditional community release from a state sentence. Probation is a court-ordered community sentence or disposition. Discharge means the sentence or supervision term ended. Transfer means another custodian took charge. A projected release date is a calculation and may change. Escape is an unauthorized absence and is never a release.
- Release
- A recorded departure to the community under lawful authority.
- Transfer
- A move between custodians while confinement continues.
- Detainer
- A request that another authority hold or receive a person.
- Discharge
- Completion of the identified sentence or supervision term.
For a broader named-person search and the full Mineral County record path, use the Mineral County released inmates search. The facility record still controls the exact PHRJCF departure.
BOP Records Beyond Locator
The locator is an index, not the full federal custody file. A focused request can seek existing designation, transfer, release, and sentence records tied to the federal register number. State the date range and ask for electronic records. Privacy rules may restrict disclosure, but a narrow request gives the agency a clear subject and event.
Federal court records remain a separate source. The judgment explains the sentence, while later docket entries may address detention or supervised release. Supervised release is a court-ordered federal term in the community and is not BOP physical custody. Keep that term distinct from parole, which the federal system generally does not use for modern sentences.