Search Tennessee Department of Correction Releases

TDOC Releases Serving Sumner County

The Tennessee Department of Correction is the statewide prison and felony supervision system. The official TDOC facility list did not identify a state prison physically located in Sumner County. The correct record path therefore does not describe a local building or county-jail release desk. TDOC can receive a sentenced person from Sumner County Jail, confine that person at an institution elsewhere in Tennessee, and later record parole, sentence expiration, discharge, or another state status.

A person who leaves Sumner County Jail for TDOC has changed custodians. That is not release to the community. Once state transfer is possible, the correct public search is TDOC's Felony Offender Information Lookup, known as FOIL. A later status of parole or probation can show that secure state confinement ended while the sentence remains active under TDOC Community Supervision. An inactive status can be consistent with former custody or supervision, but the sentence rows and dates must support the conclusion.

Confirm a TDOC Release

Open the official TDOC FOIL gateway and select the search option. Search with the person's legal or committed name, or use the TDOC identification number when it is known. Date of birth and middle-name details help prevent a false match. Open the full person record rather than relying on a search-result line, cached page, or search-engine snippet.

1. Match the identity. Compare full name, aliases, birth date, TDOC ID, and other needed identifiers.
2. Read Supervision Status. Distinguish incarcerated, parole, probation, and inactive rather than translating all non-prison labels as discharged.
3. Check Assigned Location. A prison can indicate custody, while a field office generally points to community supervision rather than confinement there.
4. Review sentence dates. Compare Sentence Begin Date, Sentence End Date, and Release Eligibility Date with the active sentence rows.
5. Check for active Tennessee sentences. A former-record conclusion is stronger when FOIL shows inactive status, a past end date, and no active state sentence.
6. Request the source record. Seek the release authorization, computation, or discharge document when exact legal proof is needed.

The broader Sumner County released-person search explains how to reconcile FOIL with the sheriff record, court judgment, VINE event, or another custodian. That cross-check matters because a TDOC record addresses Tennessee felony custody or supervision, not every county, federal, or immigration episode.

TDOC FOIL Release Fields

FOIL expressly covers felony offenders who are currently or formerly in TDOC custody or under TDOC supervision. Its detail view can include a photograph, identity information, offenses, sentence entries, parole information, release information, and the exact fields below. Availability can vary by record. Only report what appears on the matched live detail.

The live FOIL search form shows the official state entry point used to begin a person-level match.

After finding a result, open the detail and retain the observation date. FOIL warns in substance that dates can change when additional court documents or sentence information reach TDOC.

TDOC Records and Contact

For a historical field or official document not visible in FOIL, use the TDOC Archived Record Request channel. Records Management is listed at the Rachel Jackson Building, second floor, 320 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243-0465. Its published questions number is 615-253-8079. This is a state records office, not a Sumner County jail records counter or a prison release gate.

Give the offender's full name, TDOC or TOMIS number, birth date, and other known identifying facts. Name the existing material sought, such as a sentence computation, release authorization, actual release date and type, discharge or sentence-expiration record, supervision-termination document, or releasable correctional photograph. TDOC will notify the requester if archive-search charges apply. Do not send payment based on an unofficial instruction or assume a fee that the agency has not quoted.

TDOC Is a State System

TDOC holds sentenced felony offenders at institutions across Tennessee and manages felony community supervision. It is not the operator of Sumner County Jail. SCSO's current-inmate page concerns displayed local bookings, including people awaiting court action or transfer. FOIL concerns the state correctional relationship. A person can disappear from the Sumner jail page because TDOC assumed custody, then remain incarcerated at a prison elsewhere in the state.

No sourced capacity or population figure is available for a single Sumner facility because the research found no TDOC prison in the county. A made-up local stat block would misstate the facility map. The useful operational fact is jurisdictional: state confinement and release are tracked through TDOC systems, while the Sumner court judgment and sheriff transfer record explain how a local case entered that system.

Tennessee State Release Framework

A Tennessee state release date grows from the judgment, sentence start, pretrial credit, offense date, release-eligibility classification, and concurrent or consecutive sentence structure. TDOC applies the governing law and validated credits. Tenn. Code § 40-35-501 contains several eligibility percentages and offense-specific rules. The phrase "85 percent" is not a universal Tennessee release formula.

For specified violent-offense provisions, the law can bar release eligibility while limiting the effect of sentence-reduction credits so that no more than 15 percent is removed. That is not parole at 85 percent. The 2022 Truth in Sentencing Act created or expanded offense-specific service rules for covered offenses committed in the relevant statutory cohort. Offense date, convicted offense, judgment, and current law must all be checked before describing the calculation.

Tenn. Code § 41-21-236 governs the state sentence-credit framework. Credits can be earned, lost, or restored within the rules that apply to the sentence. They cannot override a mandatory minimum. Corrected jail credit, amended judgments, consecutive-sentence orders, revocations, new convictions, parole decisions, detainers, and disciplinary changes can all alter what FOIL displays.

TDOC Parole and Supervision

Tennessee divides parole decision-making from supervision. The Tennessee Board of Parole decides parole matters. TDOC Community Supervision manages people on parole, probation, and other community statuses. A FOIL label of parole or probation can support the conclusion that secure TDOC confinement ended, but it also means the person has not necessarily reached sentence discharge.

For a Sumner connection, the TDOC field-office directory assigns Robertson, Sumner, and Wilson Counties to District 81. The listed Sumner District Office is 1441 Tulip Poplar Drive, Gallatin, TN 37066, with phone 615-451-5808 and fax 615-451-5873. Check FOIL's Assigned Location before contacting that office because a person may be assigned elsewhere, live in another county, or have an interstate placement.

FOIL may show Parole Hearing Date and Parole Hearing Result. A grant is authorization subject to its effective date, release planning, holds, and possible rescission. It is not proof that prison staff completed release on the hearing or decision date. For the formal decision, use the Tennessee Board of Parole public-records process rather than treating a schedule as a final result.

Sumner and TDOC Record Boundaries

Use each record for the event it owns. SCSO can document the end of the county booking and whether the event was a transfer. The Sumner court judgment supplies the legal sentence. TDOC FOIL and archived files document the state custody, sentence, parole, supervision, and discharge relationship. VINE can report a custody change supplied by the participating agency, but the source agency remains the official record owner.

Keep conclusions narrow. "Inactive with no active Tennessee sentence displayed" is a source-based statement. "Free from all custody" reaches beyond FOIL because a federal case, another state's case, immigration custody, or a later event could exist.