Find Montgomery County Correctional Facility Releases

Montgomery County Correctional Facility Releases

Montgomery County Correctional Facility, commonly called MCCF, is the county jail. It houses adult men and women awaiting trial and people serving county sentences. It also receives probation or parole violators, weekend commitments, and people held for court or transfer. Leaving the Eagleville campus does not always mean freedom from custody. The recorded movement must be read before calling the event a community release.

A person may leave on bond or under another pretrial order. Someone may complete a county sentence, receive a court-ordered discharge, enter county parole or probation, or leave without supervision when the legal term ends. Other departures are transfers. PADOC may receive a person beginning a state sentence. Another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, federal authorities, or immigration authorities may become the next custodian. A receiving agency listed on an MCCF movement record confirms that the person left MCCF but stayed in custody.

Bond means release on the pending matter under court-set conditions. It is not a dismissal. Parole is conditional release before a maximum term ends. Probation is community supervision ordered by a court and can exist with or without a jail term. Those distinctions keep an MCCF release record from being overstated.

Confirm Montgomery County Facility Release

The official MCCF page does not expose a verified public current-inmate roster or release list. Start with the facility rather than a third-party name page. Collect the person's full legal name, date of birth if lawfully known, booking number or OTN, and the approximate stay. An OTN is the tracking number tied to a Pennsylvania criminal case. Similar names require stronger identifiers.

1. Call MCCF at 610-635-7100. Ask whether the person remains there, was discharged, or transferred.
2. Search the Pennsylvania UJS Portal by participant or case identifier, then limit the result to Montgomery County and the correct court level.
3. Read bail, disposition, sentence, and filed-order entries in date order. A judicial authorization may come before the actual door time.
4. Check a PA SAVIN/VINE status or saved alert if registration existed. Read the agency and event words exactly.
5. Request the admission, discharge, or movement record for lasting proof of when and how the MCCF stay ended.

The Montgomery County released-inmate lookup explains the broader named-person path. For an MCCF-only stay, do not treat a missing PADOC result as proof of release. PADOC covers state jurisdiction and supervision, not ordinary county detention. A no-result on VINE is also inconclusive because participation, timing, and record availability can vary.

Montgomery County Facility Release Records

MCCF is the primary custodian for its own admission and discharge activity. Warden Sean P. McGee leads the facility. Public office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The official correctional page supplies the current facility identity and contact details, but it does not provide a verified public release database.

For a durable county record, use the Montgomery County JustFOIA portal or the statewide Right-to-Know Law form sent to the County Open Records Officer. Ask for existing records, not an answer to a broad question. A focused request can seek records sufficient to show the admission and discharge or transfer, booking number, admission and discharge times, release or movement code, releasing authority, receiving agency when disclosable, and related commitment or release papers.

Pennsylvania agencies generally respond to an RTKL request within five business days. Section 902 permits a stated extension, often up to 30 calendar days, for listed needs such as retrieval, review, staffing, or redaction. County fees listed in the research were 25 cents per one-sided copy and $1 for certification of a record. Electronic delivery by email ordinarily has no duplication charge under the cited state schedule. Verify the current schedule before ordering.

Note: Court documents come from the Clerk of Courts, while MCCF operational discharge records follow the county records route.

Historic Montgomery County Release Snapshot

Montgomery County's 2018 Adult Criminal Justice System Annual report provides a dated view of MCCF, not current capacity or release volume. The report described a complex built in 1986, expanded in 1999, and enlarged with a Community Corrections addition in 2011. Its figures reflect that reporting year and must not be presented as today's totals.

The same historic report described 2,080 approved beds after expansions, including Community Corrections, and an average of 23 admissions per day. Its population categories included pretrial detention, county sentences with a maximum of two years less one day, work release, community service, and eligible electronic or GPS transition participants. A high count of discharges does not show how many people entered the community because the category can include other custody movements.

Montgomery County Courthouse Transfer Records

The Sheriff's Transportation and Detention Division operates the courthouse Detention Center on the Plaza level of the Montgomery County Courthouse. The researched source describes 16 cells and space for as many as 100 people awaiting hearings. It is a short-term holding and transport location, not a sentenced jail and not a separate public release-search system.

Deputies move people among MCCF, courts, district judges, police departments, and other counties. Leaving a courthouse cell can therefore mean a ride back to MCCF or onward to another custodian. When the court orders release and all holds are resolved, the person may leave custody. The relevant proof is the court order combined with the final custodian's discharge, not the fact that someone disappeared from courthouse holding.

The Sheriff's detention and transportation page shows why courthouse movement must be separated from MCCF release.

The captured official page supports the transport role and does not create a second Montgomery County inmate roster.

Montgomery County Weekend Release Rules

Weekend self-commitments follow a narrow MCCF process. The person reports through the main entrance with two copies of the commitment papers. Sentence time begins when Admissions/Discharge processes the commitment. The county's exact 48-hour example runs from about 6 p.m. Friday to about 6 p.m. Sunday. It is not a general release schedule for pretrial detainees or other sentenced populations.

The official weekend-sentence instructions listed a $60 booking fee for new commitments and a $15 daily short-stay charge for weekend or day sentences and incarceration through 29 straight days. These fees should be checked before relying on them. Loss of good time can arise in specific program or disciplinary contexts, but no official general MCCF good-time formula was verified.

Bail follows a separate path. The Clerk accepts bail on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cash bail for someone held at MCCF may be posted at the facility after hours, on weekends, and on holidays. The payer must be at least 18 with valid photo identification. Wire processing may take one to two business days or longer near closures. Payment permits a possible release on that case, but another hold can still block the exit.

Montgomery County Furlough Release Limits

MCCF's Eagleville campus combines secure custody and Community Corrections functions. Work release, community work, electronic or GPS monitoring, and furlough can place a person outside a cell while legal custody or program duties continue. None should be called final discharge without a record showing that status.

The county's furlough rules require program time, good standing and a current account, approval, an approved destination and contact, curfew compliance, and a timely return. A violation can affect furlough, good time, or program status. Furlough is a temporary authorized absence. Seeing someone away from MCCF is not enough to decide that the person was released.

Work release

Approved work activity can occur while the participant remains under program control.

Electronic monitoring

Physical location changes while legal terms and monitoring requirements continue.

Furlough

A temporary approved absence requires return and compliance with county rules.

Final discharge

The custodial event ends as recorded, although a separate form of supervision may continue.

Note: Ask for the recorded disposition when physical location and legal custody appear to point in different directions.

Montgomery County Release Transportation

SEPTA Route 93's current timetable names Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville as a stop and timepoint. The timetable offers a practical public-transit reference near the campus. It does not promise free fare, staff transport, or a stop at the physical release door. Confirm the live schedule and the person's actual discharge before planning around it.

Montgomery County's Roadmap to Recovery states that justice-system case management works within MCCF on reentry plans. County resources also point to the Montgomery County Reentry Initiative. These are transition resources, not proof of a fixed release date. The facility record remains the source for an actual discharge or movement, and the relevant supervision office supplies reporting instructions after release.

When a person leaves on county probation or local parole, Montgomery County Adult Probation and Parole may route reporting among its geographic units. A state-prison parolee follows PADOC instructions instead. For details on that distinction, use the Post-Release Supervision page. A transfer to SCI Phoenix or another PADOC facility remains state custody, even if it follows a physical exit from MCCF.