NCDAC Releases Serving Washington County
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, or NCDAC, operates the statewide prison and Community Supervision systems. No adult NCDAC prison was verified within Washington County. A person sentenced to state prison may be housed elsewhere and later released to Washington County, so the correct source is statewide Offender Public Information rather than a local jail roster.
NCDAC records cover current and former state prisoners and people in state probation, parole, or post-release supervision, with online history reaching 1972. They do not include ordinary county or city jail records. A former Washington County detainee appears only if the person also entered a category covered by NCDAC.
A state-prison release can lead to post-release supervision, parole under an older sentencing system, unconditional discharge, another jurisdiction, or another recorded movement. The NCDAC detail can retain an Actual Release Date after confinement ends. It may also show inactive inmate status alongside active supervision, meaning the person left prison but remains under state community control.
The Washington County released inmate lookup routes a named-person search across local, state, court, and federal records. Use that broader path when the custodian is uncertain. When NCDAC is known, keep the state offender number with the search because it is more stable than name spelling and helps connect sentence and movement entries.
How to Search NCDAC Release Records
NCDAC Offender Public Information is the main historical state channel. An offender number is the most precise identifier and does not need leading zeros. A name search can be narrowed with one or two stable details, but adding too many criteria can hide the right record because the fields combine with AND.
- Enter the offender number when known. Otherwise use last name and first name, then add a birth date, age range, or another stable field only if needed.
- Try “Last Name Sounds Like” when spelling is uncertain. Review the result against birth information and other identifiers rather than relying on name alone.
- Choose the status filter that fits the question: All, Active Inmate, Active Probationer/Parolee, or Inactive.
- Open the matching detail and compare Inmate Status with Probation/Parole/Post Release Status. These are separate fields.
- Read Actual Release Date, Service Status, Last Movement, and supervision status together before deciding what event occurred.
The official NCDAC search image below shows the available criteria and status filters.
Washington County NCDAC Inmate Release Search
The dedicated NCDAC Inmate Release Search covers state-prison releases in the current calendar year and two prior years. It searches by county, year, and month, including “Release County Not Reported” and “Released To Other State(s),” or by full or partial last name with a Sounds Like option.
A Washington County selection means the state recorded Washington as the release county. It does not prove the person was convicted in Washington County, booked at the local detention center, or confined in a prison inside the county. It also does not create a county 24-hour or 72-hour recent-release list.
The state release-search image below shows the county, month, year, and name routes.
For an older state release, return to general Offender Public Information or request the public release record from NCDAC. The Washington County Sheriff's Office is not the custodian for a state-prison sentence or NCDAC movement.
Fields in an NCDAC Release Record
The public detail separates identity, incarceration, sentence, movement, and supervision information. Not every record has every field, so read what is actually shown for the matching person and sentence episode.
| Field | How to read it |
|---|---|
| Inmate Status | Shows whether NCDAC prison custody is active or inactive. |
| Probation/Parole/Post Release Status | Separately shows active or inactive state community supervision. |
| Projected Release Date | A computed future date that may change; it does not prove release occurred. |
| Actual Release Date | Records the completed departure for the sentence episode. |
| Service Status | Shows whether the sentence episode remains active or has expired. |
| Last Movement and date | Helps identify the most recent NCDAC custody action. |
| Conviction and release county | Locates those state-record events but does not identify a local jail stay. |
The detail may also include admission location, current or previous location, sentence number, commitment type, docket, offense details, term information, and an official NCDAC photograph. A state correctional photo is not a Washington County booking photograph and should remain labeled with its source.
Projected Versus Actual NCDAC Release Dates
Projected Release Date is NCDAC's exact label for a calculated future date. It can appear in the incarceration summary and in sentence blocks. It may change after earned-time awards or losses, work or program changes, discipline, transfer, a court order, resentencing, a change in law, parole action, or another legal or administrative event.
North Carolina sentencing law varies by offense date and sentence. Under Structured Sentencing, an active felony offender must serve the imposed minimum. Earned time may narrow the maximum toward that minimum but cannot reduce the term below it. Older Fair Sentencing cases can involve good time, gain time, and parole rules that do not apply in the same way to later offenses. No single percentage or booking-date calculation safely predicts every release.
An accomplished release should be confirmed with Actual Release Date, Service Status, header custody and supervision statuses, and movement history. “Service Status EXPIRED” with an Actual Release Date supports that the sentence episode ended. Active supervision can remain after prison custody becomes inactive.
- Projected release
- A future calculation that can move before confinement ends.
- Actual release
- The completed NCDAC departure recorded for a sentence episode.
- Post-release supervision
- Community control that begins after prison release under applicable law.
- Inactive
- A status showing the person is no longer active in that specific NCDAC category.
NCDAC Release Records and Contact
NCDAC identifies conviction basics, time served, sentence length, and admission and release dates as public information. Internal behavior, classification, and some status records may be confidential, and supervision files are restricted. Ask for the specific public admission, sentence, movement, or release facts rather than a complete institutional file.
North Carolina Department of Adult Correction
214 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
Mail: 5201 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-5201
Phone: 919-733-2126
Public-record route: NCDAC online request form
The form asks requesters to identify the desired records and date range. NCDAC notes that it does not hold court, judicial, or police records. Electronic delivery is common. A simple request may take days, while a broad request requiring review and redaction can take weeks or months and may arrive in batches. The legal access standard remains “as promptly as possible,” not a fixed deadline.
No universal destroy-after-a-set-number-of-years rule was verified for every NCDAC release record. Retention depends on the record series. Online history extending to 1972 does not itself establish the retention schedule for every underlying file.
NCDAC Supervision After a Washington County Release
“Active Probationer/Parolee” means a person is in the community under NCDAC supervision, not inside a state prison. The separate status can reflect probation, parole under applicable older law, or post-release supervision. Traditional parole generally applies to covered older offenses, while Structured Sentencing releases normally use mandatory post-release supervision under the governing statute.
Washington County is within Community Supervision Judicial District 2. A state resource sheet lists Community Corrections in Plymouth at 202 East Water Street, Plymouth, NC 27962, phone 252-793-3021. Office assignments and contacts can change, so verify that lead through the current NCDAC directory. Detailed supervision information may not be public.
NC SAVAN/VINELink can provide NCDAC custody notifications, including projected-date and actual release events supported by the state system. Treat a projected notice as a forecast. A release with supervision and a release without supervision route the next check differently, so compare the alert with Offender Public Information.
NCDAC Versus Washington County and Federal Custody
The Washington County Sheriff's Office keeps the local jail movement record. The Washington County Clerk keeps the court disposition, judgment, and order. NCDAC keeps state prison and state supervision records. Those custodians can describe linked events, but one office cannot replace or correct another agency's database.
The Washington County Judicial Branch page provides the local court entry point and calendar information. Court records can explain the sentence or order that led to NCDAC custody, but the state offender record remains the source for the prison movement and Actual Release Date. A court judgment and a state movement entry should be compared, not treated as interchangeable copies.
| Custody type | Primary release proof | Common limit |
|---|---|---|
| Washington County jail | WCSO booking and movement record | Not included in the NCDAC state-prison database. |
| NCDAC state prison | Actual Release Date, Service Status, movement, and supervision fields | Release county does not prove a local jail booking. |
| Federal prison | BOP locator plus the federal court record | Leaving BOP does not rule out another custodian. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS, paperwork, and ERO information | The released-person display has a limited recent window. |
No NCDAC, BOP, ICE, or USMS detention facility was verified inside Washington County. These systems matter when a person actually entered their custody, not because the county operates them. Follow the named transfer destination and keep each status tied to its reporting agency.
If an NCDAC field appears wrong, direct the correction to NCDAC with the offender number and the exact sentence or movement entry. A local Clerk can supply an authoritative order, but it cannot edit the state database. Preserve both records, describe the conflict in plain terms, and ask the agency that created the disputed field to review it.