Detention Center Release Paths
Queen Anne's County Detention Center holds adults under local and state court authority, including people awaiting trial and people serving local terms. Several events can end the local commitment. A pretrial detainee may leave after bond, recognizance, dismissal, or another court order. A sentenced person may complete the custodial term or reach an authorized credit-based release point. Parole or mandatory supervision can apply when the law and sentence allow it.
Not every departure is release to the community. A state sentence may move the person into DPSCS custody. A warrant, detainer, federal writ, immigration process, hospital move, or another local commitment can lead to a transfer. The live local custody state ends in each case, but the destination and legal status differ. Ask for the exact event label, authority, actual date and time, and destination indicator where public.
| Departure type | What it means | Next source |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or recognizance | Local confinement ends under court conditions; the criminal case continues. | Detention release record and court docket. |
| Sentence completion | The identified local custodial portion ends. | Commitment, credit calculation, and actual release entry. |
| Parole or mandatory supervision | The person enters conditional community supervision. | Release record, VINE, and Division of Parole and Probation. |
| Transfer | Custody moves rather than ending. | The receiving county, DPSCS, BOP, or ICE system. |
Confirm Detention Center Releases
No official public live roster or recent-release feed was found for Queen Anne's County Detention Center. A person who does not appear in an online search might have been released, transferred, recorded outside the system's scope, or matched under different data. Confirmation needs more than absence.
Start with the last known custodian and the date of contact. The same person can move from the county center to DPSCS or another authority while each public system updates on a different schedule. A dated note of every query makes those movements easier to reconstruct.
- Search Maryland VINE by name or identification number and read the exact custody event and reporting agency.
- Review Maryland Judiciary Case Search for the Queen Anne's County docket, bond action, disposition, sentence, or release order.
- Call the detention center and ask for the correct public-information route for an actual release or transfer record.
- Submit a narrow Maryland PIA request if an oral answer is unavailable or not detailed enough.
- If the record says transfer, search the named receiving system instead of calling it community release.
A VINE release event is useful notice, but it is not a certified county record. A court order shows legal authority but may precede physical departure. The detention-center entry with actual release time and type is the strongest direct local evidence. The Queen Anne's County released-inmate search explains the full current, court, state, federal, and records-request path.
Detention Center Release Records
A request should describe the event and fields rather than assume the county uses a report with a specific name. The releasable information may come from a commitment record, movement log, jail-management entry, court order, or a combination. Give enough identity information to separate people with the same name and define the relevant date range.
Ask for full name, commitment or booking number, admission date and time, actual release or transfer date and time, the authority or document that ended the commitment, release type, releasing court, and destination or receiving custodian where public. Request a code key if the output uses abbreviations. If a booking photo is needed, ask for it separately because image access may be reviewed under different rules.
Maryland's Public Information Act permits access but also allows or requires withholding for protected material. Use the Queen Anne's County submission gateway, name the Department of Corrections, and ask for severable disclosure plus a written legal basis for any denial. No official online retention period was found. Ask which record series holds the requested release field and whether older material has moved to another repository.
Note: A projected date is a calculation, while the actual release entry records when the person physically left county custody.
Detention Center Records Contact
The official Queen Anne's County Detention Center page identifies the county Department of Corrections as the operating agency. Custody operates around the clock, but administrative hours are listed separately. The 24-hour custody schedule does not promise that records staff are always available or that a public release desk can produce a log on demand.
Queen Anne's County Detention Center
500 Little Hut Drive
Centreville, MD 21617
Phone: 410-758-3817
Fax: 410-758-2485
Administrative hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Custody operation: 24 hours
Call before visiting. Ask who serves as custodian for the detention release record and whether the county request form should be used. A walk-in request may still require search, review, redaction, or a written filing.
County Corrections Release Custodian
The operator is not the elected sheriff. Queen Anne's County separated correctional operations from the sheriff in the 1980s and created a county Department of Corrections. That structure determines where local admission, commitment, release, transfer, and detention booking-photo questions should begin.
The Sheriff's Office remains the custodian of records it creates, such as some arrest reports or deputy-created images. It should not automatically receive a request for the detention center's release entry. Court clerks hold judgments, dockets, and release orders; the Queen Anne's County Criminal Department page provides local court routing. DPSCS holds state correctional records after a state transfer. Naming the right record and custodian avoids delay and prevents mismatched answers.
- Department of Corrections
- The county operator and likely custodian for detention admission, movement, release, and transfer data.
- Sheriff's Office
- A separate law-enforcement agency that holds sheriff-created police records.
- Court clerk
- The custodian of the docket, judgment, commitment, and court release order.
- DPSCS
- The state custodian when a person enters Maryland correctional custody.
About the Detention Center
The center is an adult county detention facility serving the courts and local and state law-enforcement agencies. It may hold adults awaiting case action, people serving local sentences, and people awaiting transfer under another authority. A past federal grant or the receipt of people from another jurisdiction does not turn it into a federal Bureau of Prisons institution.
Published history identifies LaMonte Cooke as warden at the time of research. The county lists the facility at Little Hut Drive in Centreville and describes continuous custodial operation. These facts help identify the right institution when a same-name or out-of-county result appears.
Temporary court or police holding cells elsewhere in the county are not separate public release archives. If the person was moved to the detention center, use the detention commitment. If another agency retained custody, follow that agency's record instead.
Detention Center Release History
The county facility history says the older jail closed after standards concerns. Planning for the current center began in 1983. The first appointed warden arrived in 1987, and the present facility began operations in 1988 after first receiving sentenced people from other jurisdictions. Modular additions followed in 1990 and 2009.
This history is more than local color. It explains the present records route. Corrections became a distinct county function, so the Department of Corrections is the starting point for a detention release or movement record. The Sheriff's Office may be involved in the arrest, but it does not operate the jail.
The history also explains why a federal connection must be read with care. A U.S. Marshals Service grant supported one addition, and the county has received people from other jurisdictions. Neither fact means a person held there is in BOP custody. Look at the commitment and receiving authority.
Facility history cannot prove any current custody fact. Its value is narrower: it identifies the county corrections agency, distinguishes the center from the sheriff, and helps route a release-record request to the office most likely to hold the movement entry.
After a Detention Center Release
A community release can still carry court conditions, probation, parole, or mandatory supervision. Bond does not dismiss the case. Probation may follow a jail term or suspended sentence. Parole and mandatory supervision continue legal custody under conditions until the controlling endpoint.
If the person transfers, use the destination named in the movement record. Search DPSCS for current covered state custody, BOP for federal custody or a federal release record, and ICE's locator for current immigration detention. A BOP result saying a person is not in BOP custody has a limited federal meaning and does not rule out another system.
For a pending alert or recent event, the Queen Anne's County VINE inmate check can add a notification layer. Keep the exact status, timestamp, and reporting agency, then verify the event through the detention center or receiving custodian.