Union County 24-Hour Release Gap
The Union County Sheriff’s official page has no inmate roster, recent-release view, booking-photo gallery, update schedule, or archive. The official Pulaski County Detention Center page also has no named-person feed. That means there is no official list to filter for today. It would be wrong to treat an empty search as proof that someone left custody.
Union detainees are contract-housed at Pulaski County Detention Center in Ullin. The arresting county and the jail operator are therefore different agencies. A person may leave the Ullin facility for the community, a Union court appearance, IDOC, another county, or federal custody. Each is a departure from one building, but only one is a community release.
Note: No verified official source gives a local 24-hour feed cadence or retention period, so neither should be inferred.
Check Union County Daily Releases
The fastest check starts with custody, not a generic name search. Union Sheriff can identify where a person was sent. Pulaski can then say whether its event was release or transfer. The Union court docket supplies the legal basis, while the detention record establishes when physical processing ended.
- Call the Union County Sheriff at 618-833-5500 and ask which agency had custody during the date in question.
- Call Pulaski County Detention Center at 618-845-3512 if the person was housed in Ullin. Ask whether the disposition was community release or transfer.
- Search the Union County Judici case index or call the Circuit Clerk at 618-833-5913 for a release, detention, dismissal, sentence, probation, or commitment order.
- Use Illinois VINELink for a matched-person custody event or future alert, then confirm the event with the reporting agency.
- If the person entered state prison, use the IDOC Individual in Custody Search. It does not cover every local jail release.
For one named person and the full custody-path method, the Union County released-inmate search brings local, court, state, and federal routes together. The daily-release task is narrower: define one day, identify the custodian, and request the events recorded in that window.
Union County Release Record Fields
Because no public Union County 24-hour list exists, these are request fields, not claims about an online display. A narrow request should define the day in local time. Midnight through 11:59 p.m. is clearer than “today,” especially when the request is read later.
| Requested field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Full name and booking number | Connects the person to the correct detention event. |
| Booking date and time | Defines when that custody episode began. |
| Actual release date and time | Records when facility processing ended. |
| Release disposition or type | Distinguishes court-ordered release, time served, or another outcome. |
| Destination or receiving agency | Shows whether the event was a transfer rather than community release. |
| Charges tied to the booking | Links the custody record to the correct court matter. |
A court order can show that a judge authorized release. It does not establish the exact moment identity checks, property return, and other detention procedures finished. The jail event record provides that time. Medical, juvenile, victim, security, personal, and active-investigation information may be withheld or redacted.
Request Union County Release Entries
The Union County FOIA process is the documentary fallback for a daily extract. Anyone may make a written request. The county form is convenient, but the county says a written request must still be honored. Ask for an electronic CSV or PDF if that format is maintained.
Send the request to the Public Information Officer at 309 W. Market Street, Room 239, Jonesboro, IL 62952, email foia@unioncountyil.gov, or call 618-833-8248. The county describes an ordinary response time of five business days, subject to a lawful extension. The first 50 black-and-white printed pages are free, with later pages charged at $0.15 each.
Union may hold arrest, transport, and sheriff records while Pulaski holds the booking and release sheet. If Union identifies Pulaski as custodian, send the same focused request to the detention center’s linked FOIA contact at gjones@pulaskicountyil.gov. Ask each office to produce all reasonably segregable nonexempt material and identify any exemption used.
Union County Pretrial Release Checks
Modern Illinois pretrial cases should be read through the judge’s detention or release order, not old assumptions about paying money to leave jail. Union County has a named Office of Statewide Pretrial Services contact. Its official local page also states that pretrial supervision and GPS services are free.
Use the Union County pretrial services page to verify the current contact and the no-fee warning. Confirm a claimed order with the Circuit Clerk. Then ask Pulaski when the physical release was completed. Anyone demanding payment for special monitoring or claiming to arrange release should be checked against those official offices.
The successful manifest capture below shows the official Union County pretrial contact and its no-fee notice.
That official notice helps separate a lawful court-supervision path from an unsupported payment demand.
Why Union Release Searches Split
The Illinois Sheriffs’ Association lists the Union County jail address as N/A, while an IDOC inspection documents Pulaski County’s contract housing of Union prisoners. This is a local data quirk with practical consequences. There may be a Union arrest record, a Pulaski detention event, and a Union court order for the same person.
The statewide sheriff directory entry captures the missing local jail-address point.
The directory image explains why a search for a conventional Union jail release page fails. It does not mean Union residents are never detained.
Positive matched evidence matters most. A Pulaski release sheet can establish the physical event. A Union court disposition can explain why it occurred. VINE supplies a timely lead, and an IDOC status becomes relevant only after a state-prison transfer.
No Union Release App
No official Union sheriff mobile app, release-photo feed, or social release channel was found. Do not substitute an app used by another Illinois county. Also avoid the similarly named Pulaski County, Kentucky JailTracker site. It concerns Kentucky, not the Ullin detention center in Illinois.
A booking photograph tied to the day can be requested from the agency that holds it. Ask Union for records it created and Pulaski for its booking file. The lack of a gallery does not answer whether a photo exists, and no result should be read as proof that no custody event occurred.
Note: For a wider requested date range, use the Released Last 72 Hours method rather than stretching an undefined online window.
Read Union Daily Release Entries
A daily extract may contain events that began before the selected day. Someone booked earlier can still have a release timestamp inside the requested interval. Conversely, a person booked during the day may remain in custody after the window closes. Sort by actual release time, not booking time, when the question is who left custody that day.
Read disposition and destination together. “Transferred” should be followed by the receiving agency when that field is available. A court-ordered release should be checked against the completed jail event. If the entry uses a short code or unclear label, ask the records custodian to define it rather than assigning a meaning from another county’s system.
Names alone can also mislead. Match the booking number, date of birth when lawfully available, case number, or other identifiers supplied by the record. A common name without a matching booking event is weak evidence. Keep the Union court case and Pulaski custody event separate until the identifiers connect them.
For entries spanning midnight, ask which timestamp and time zone the database uses. No official source documents a local feed rule, so a request should not assume that an agency’s operational day matches a calendar day. A clear date range lets the office search its own system and explain any boundary issue.
Union Release Versus Custody
“Released” must be tied to a specific custodian. Leaving Pulaski for home differs from leaving Pulaski for IDOC, another jail, USMS, or ICE. A current jail roster, if one existed, would answer who remains in that jail. It would not serve as a durable history after the person leaves.
| Evidence | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pulaski actual release record | Shows the event and whether another agency received the person. |
| Union court order | Shows the legal decision, but not final processing time. |
| IDOC status “PAROLE” | Shows community placement under state supervision, not full discharge. |
| VINE custody change | Provides a lead that should be confirmed with the reporting custodian. |
| No Union roster result | Proves nothing because Union publishes no roster. |
When sources conflict, use the source closest to the event. The custodian’s actual release entry is stronger than absence from a web page. The court order explains authority, while the receiving-agency field prevents a transfer from being mislabeled as freedom.