Find Monroe County Correctional Facility Releases

MCCF Release Destinations

Monroe County Correctional Facility is a county jail for both pretrial and sentenced people. Its departure records therefore cover several paths. A person may enter the community after bail, release on recognizance, a dismissal, time served, completion of a county term, or county parole. A person may instead leave the building in the custody of PA DOC, another county, a federal agency, immigration authorities, a treatment placement, or another court-directed custodian.

The recorded custody disposition is the critical field. “Released on bond” and “transferred to PA DOC” both end an MCCF stay, but only the first normally describes community release, assuming no other hold. A dismissal can authorize release while processing remains incomplete. An MCCF timestamp may follow the court order because staff must complete discharge steps and check holds.

Confirm an MCCF Release

MCCF publishes no identifiable public current roster, release report, 24-hour list, or 72-hour archive. The county sitemap also exposes no such endpoint. Confirmation must begin with the facility and then move to the record tied to the disposition. The Monroe County released inmate search combines those channels for a named person.

1. Call MCCF and ask whether the person is currently confined.
2. If not, ask which records office can confirm the departure date and custody disposition.
3. Submit a focused written request when details are unavailable by telephone.
4. Search the UJS Portal for bail, disposition, sentence, and later orders.
5. Follow any receiving agency named in the MCCF response.
6. Use supervision records only when the sentence calls for parole or probation.

The jail record best establishes physical departure. Court entries supply the legal reason, but they may not show the exact door-out time. If the person entered state custody, the PA DOC Inmate Locator covers current jurisdiction. If later paroled, the separate Department Supervised Individual Locator can show active community supervision. Neither current search is a full historical archive.

Note: Search both Monroe County court levels because bail may begin with an MDJ while sentencing appears in Common Pleas.

MCCF Records and Contact

The official Monroe County Correctional Facility page lists Acting Warden Eugene Ruddy and current facility contacts. Its main number should be the first route for a narrow custody question. An older official handout and a state registry page still show 570-992-3232, but the current MCCF page's number takes priority.

Staff may be able to confirm present custody, but a formal record request is the safer route for a dated release or transfer event. Monroe County Open Records receives written requests at One Quaker Plaza, Room 201, Stroudsburg, PA 18360. Its phone is 570-517-3850, fax is 570-517-3851, and email is openrecords@monroecountypa.gov. The county page conflicts on room and counter hours, so verify before visiting.

Request an MCCF Release Record

A Right-to-Know Law request should ask for records, not demand an explanation from the records officer. Identify the full name, date of birth or inmate number, MCCF booking, and a bounded date range. Request records sufficient to show the release or transfer date and time, custody disposition, authorizing order if maintained, receiving agency for a transfer, and any related booking photograph or intake image.

The county's standard request form asks for the agency, submission details, requester contact, record description, desired format, certification choice, and a fee-notification threshold. Electronic delivery reduces handling and makes a clear response easier to keep. Save a copy of the request because an appeal depends on the record of what was sought.

Monroe County's policy allows five business days for an initial response. A statutory reason can support up to thirty additional calendar days with notice. A denial or partial denial must be written and state its legal basis and appeal procedure. Ask for separable redaction rather than an all-or-nothing response. The reviewed sources do not state a normal retention period for MCCF release logs or images.

Note: Request-specific preservation begins after receipt and through appeals; it does not establish how long MCCF normally retains a record.

Monroe County Jail Population

County records describe MCCF as serving male and female pretrial and sentenced groups. The distinction changes how a person may leave. A pretrial departure often follows bail, recognizance, dismissal, or transfer. A sentenced departure may follow time served, county parole, completion, or state commitment. The facility should not be described as a state prison.

Dated official sources give useful scale without supplying a release count. A PREA audit reported designated capacity of 432, a snapshot population of 288, and a preceding twelve-month average daily population of 377. A 2026 county counseling request used capacity 430 and approximately 230 people. A June 2026 Prison Board agenda reported a May average daily population of 207.

Those values come from different years and documents. They should not be blended into a fixed capacity or used to estimate releases. Population is a census measure, not a booking or release total.

MCCF Pretrial and Sentenced Releases

The mixed custody population is a distinctive part of the Monroe County release process. Nine local Magisterial District Judges conduct preliminary arraignments and set or accept bail. A person can therefore leave MCCF after a local judicial action well before final disposition. If charges are held for court, the later record moves to Common Pleas.

The county Public Defender gives a local rule of thumb for sentences: the county sentencing judge generally has parole authority when the aggregate maximum is below twenty-four months, while state parole generally applies at two years or more, subject to a stated DUI exception and the actual sentencing order. That line helps route a search, but it is not a promise of release.

Search both MDJ and Common Pleas records in UJS. Bail information at the first level and sentencing or later orders at the second may explain why MCCF released or transferred the person. Court case status still does not replace the jail's dated disposition.

MCCF Release and Reentry Work

MCCF's mission refers to positive reintegration. A June 2026 Prison Board agenda adds a reentry education and vocation update and records a Safe Serve recap involving ten incarcerated people. A county request for drug, alcohol, and counseling services sought evidence-based care intended in part to support successful community reentry.

The county counseling-services record provides both program and population context.

The program material describes county priorities, not a service guarantee or an individual release condition. A separate audit confirms a work-release account and function but does not publish eligibility, schedules, transport, or a final discharge procedure.

Note: MCCF program records describe facility priorities and do not promise participation, a release date, or a specific reentry service.

MCCF Prison Board Records

The Board of Prison Inspectors meets at MCCF on the second Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. under the 2026 county schedule. Agendas can show census data, fiscal reports, treatment and reentry topics, and a warden's report. They help explain how the facility changes over time and why figures should remain tied to a date.

Prison Board material is not a recent-release list. The June agenda contains operating and program context but no person-by-person release report. A name search must still use MCCF, the court docket, and any receiving agency. This boundary prevents a broad population measure from being mistaken for an individual custody event.

Note: Monroe County Prison Board agendas give dated operating context but do not provide an individual release search or archive.

MCCF Transfers Beyond Monroe County

No State Correctional Institution, PA DOC community-corrections center, BOP prison, ICE detention center, confirmed county ICE contract, or separate municipal jail with a public release system was identified inside Monroe County. That facility-map boundary does not mean Monroe cases never enter those systems. It means the transfer record must name the next custodian.

For PA DOC, use the statewide locator because Monroe has no local SCI. In the BOP locator, a past release date and no institution, or a Released result, means only that BOP no longer holds the person. The ICE online locator covers current custody and specified recent releases. An ICE detainer can produce continued custody after the MCCF departure. If a federal pretrial prisoner never entered BOP, use the federal docket and named holding facility rather than inferring release from a blank BOP search.

PA SAVIN can support county-jail, state-prison, and state-parole notices. It does not merge BOP or ICE data. A transfer alert should always be read as movement, not community release.