Locate Madison County Penal Farm Discharges

Penal Farm Release Paths

The Madison County Penal Farm is part of the county correctional landscape operated through the Sheriff’s workhouse system described by MCSO Corrections. It is not a separate Tennessee Department of Correction prison. County documents place it at Westover Road, and a private act hosted by the Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service confirms the official name and recordkeeping context. That local status controls where a person’s release or transfer is documented.

A person who finishes a county sentence should have a Sheriff or workhouse release record and a sentencing-court record. The jail-system document should give the actual movement date and time, disposition, and destination. The court judgment should show the sentence, jail credit, time served, or later order that led to discharge. If the person was held as a state prisoner or moved into TDOC custody, the county record should name the receiving authority and FOIL may show the state location after intake.

Confirm Penal Farm Discharges

No official public release feed was verified for the Penal Farm. The official Madison County Sheriff site also did not provide a current roster or rolling release list during the research review. A person’s absence from a web search therefore adds no reliable proof. Start from identifiers and ask for the existing record tied to the correct booking.

1. Collect the full legal name, date of birth, aliases, case number, booking number, and approximate custody dates.
2. Search Tennessee VINELink and note the reporting agency, facility, status, and event date for the matching person.
3. Ask MCSO or the county records coordinator for the Penal Farm booking, movement, and release record, including the destination or receiving agency.
4. Request the judgment, jail-credit entry, sentence terms, amendments, and discharge or satisfaction order from the sentencing court.
5. If the destination was TDOC, search TDOC FOIL by name, TOMIS number, or State ID and open the detail record.

VINE can report a custody event from a participating agency, but it is not the certified source for the precise legal reason. FOIL covers Tennessee felony custody and supervision. It does not replace Madison County’s record for a short county-only sentence. When state intake has not posted, ask MCSO which agency received the person and on what date.

Note: A person may leave the Penal Farm yet remain in custody, so the receiving-agency field is central to every discharge check.

Penal Farm Release Contact

The facility address identifies the custody site. Release-record requests may still be routed through the Sheriff’s records function or Madison County’s Public Records Request Coordinator. Under the county public-records policy, inspection requests may be oral or written, but requests for copies must be written on the county form. Proof of Tennessee citizenship is required. A precise date range and booking number help staff find the right record without an open-ended search.

Ask for booking and release dates and times, the release code or disposition, the destination or receiving agency, charges, bond data when relevant, and court and case numbers. Request the existing record, not a new explanation or legal conclusion. Electronic delivery and a fee estimate can keep the request narrow. A custodian may redact exempt material, and the county’s response should state the basis for a denial or withholding.

Penal Farm Release History

Madison County’s two adult correctional sites are documented by official sources rather than jail directories. The downtown Criminal Justice Complex serves as the main adult detention point. The Penal Farm is the second site. County procurement material names both, and the CTAS private act for the Madison County Penal Farm confirms the institution’s formal county history.

The official CTAS private-act source has a matching captured image in the project manifest. It supports the Penal Farm name and local role.

That source helps classify the Penal Farm correctly, but it is not a person lookup. Individual discharge facts still come from MCSO records and the sentencing court. Historical language about keeping state prisoners also does not turn the Penal Farm into a TDOC-operated prison. The responsible agency and receiving destination must be read from the actual record.

Madison Two-Site Release Records

A person can have a record within the county jail system that touches more than one site. For that reason, the request should identify the Penal Farm when known and also ask for the complete booking and movement record. A facility-only request might otherwise miss an internal move before the final release. Booking number, court case number, and date range help join the pieces.

The same caution applies when the person was first processed at the Criminal Justice Complex. The Criminal Justice Complex release path covers pretrial detention and county transfer categories in more detail. A movement from South Liberty Street to Westover Road is not a community release. The last local movement and its disposition remain the key fields.

Discharge

The lawful end of the relevant custody term, as shown by the agency and court records.

Time served

A sentence or credit determination that should be read from the judgment, not inferred from days counted by hand.

Transfer

A change in holding authority or location without entry into the community.

Probation

Court-ordered community supervision that may follow a county sentence or split confinement.

Penal Farm State Transfers

The county and state systems answer different questions. MCSO supplies the local release or transfer event. TDOC FOIL shows felony custody or supervision after the state accepts the person. Its detail may include incarcerated, parole, probation, or inactive status; a location; offenses; sentence data; a Release Eligibility Date; and release information. FOIL is not a Madison County misdemeanor roster.

Open the full FOIL detail and compare identifiers. A state location means the Penal Farm departure was not release into the community. Parole means the person has left prison for community supervision, not that the sentence has ended. Probation is court-ordered community supervision. An inactive label needs the detail record or an archived TDOC request before it is described as a specific type of discharge.

Penal Farm Release Destinations

The Sheriff’s published jail categories make destination more useful than simple absence. A well-formed request asks whether the person completed a county sentence, entered probation, moved within Madison County, transferred to another local agency, or entered TDOC custody. That field prevents a move from being mislabeled as a release.

If the record shows community release, the sentencing order can reveal whether supervision follows. If the record shows another holding authority, search that authority’s system. A court order may explain why the move was lawful, but the physical time and destination remain jail-system facts. When exact sequence matters, obtain both records and keep each agency label intact.

A complete Penal Farm check also needs a firm identity match. Compare date of birth, booking number, court case, and custody dates before joining records from MCSO, VINE, the Madison County court clerk, or TDOC. Similar names can belong to different people. If an entry lacks a destination, ask for the original movement line and receiving agency rather than assuming that silence means community discharge.

Older matters may require more than a live search. The sentencing case often lasts after jail information is no longer visible, and the Sheriff’s records-management system may hold the booking and release sheet. Request a bounded period and the exact existing record. If TDOC once received the person, an archived state request can add custody history and release authorization without changing the county record’s role.

Keep the answer tied to the event being checked. A sentence order may show that release was authorized, while the jail record shows when staff completed it. VINE may report the change later. FOIL may appear only after a state intake. Those dates can differ without contradiction. Record each source, agency, and timestamp so the final account shows a sequence instead of forcing all systems into one moment.

Note: Sentence completion ends the stated county confinement, but a separate court, supervision, registry, or custody obligation may still remain.