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North Carolina Prison Release Records

To find someone released from North Carolina state prisons after a Davie County case, use the statewide correction record rather than the county jail roster. State prison release records can show an actual release, a projected date, prior confinement, and supervision that continues in the community. The result must be tied to the right person and Davie case. A move from the county jail into state prison is continued custody, while departure from prison may still lead to post-release supervision or parole.

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North Carolina Prison Release Paths

No active state prison was identified within Davie County. A person sentenced in Davie Superior Court may still enter any suitable North Carolina Department of Adult Correction facility. Placement depends on the state classification process, not on county borders. The actual offender profile must identify the present or former institution.

A transfer from the Davie County Detention Center to NCDAC is not a release. It begins or continues state custody. A later state departure may be an expiration release, parole in an eligible old-law case, or release to post-release supervision. Post-release supervision means the person has left prison but remains subject to state supervision. Full discharge is a different event.

Record status Meaning
Active inmate Still in NCDAC prison custody
Inactive incarceration The recorded prison term is no longer active
Active probation/parole/post-release In the community but still supervised
Actual Release Date Recorded departure from the state term
Projected Release Date Forward estimate, not proof of departure

Search North Carolina Release Records

The NCDAC Offender Public Information Search covers state prisoners, probationers, parolees, and historical state records back to 1972. Its older doc.state.nc.us hostname is a legacy address for an official system. NCDAC expressly excludes county-jail-only stays, so it cannot prove a release from the Davie jail.

  1. Search by offender number when known because it is more precise than a name.
  2. Otherwise enter last and first name, then narrow with birth date, age, race, gender, or other supplied fields.
  3. Run Inactive and Active Probationer/Parolee searches, or select All and read every status.
  4. Open the matching profile and compare conviction county, docket, offense, aliases, and dates.
  5. Read Actual Release Date, Projected Release Date, Last Movement, and supervision status by their exact labels.
  6. Use the linked sentence history to separate prior terms from the most recent term.

The separate NCDAC Inmate Release Search accepts county, year, and month or name criteria. DAVIE is available, but a county value must be read in context. It concerns the state system, not a rolling Davie jail release list.

Important: Inactive prison status plus active supervision is a valid released-person result. It does not mean the whole sentence has ended.

North Carolina Offender Search Fields

The search form offers Offender Status, last and first name, middle initial, a sounds-like option, offender number, gender, race, ethnic group, birth date with year ranges, and age range. Same-name results can represent different people or different offender numbers. Connect a candidate to Davie County through the county of conviction, docket, offense, and dates.

Profile field How to read it
Inmate Status Whether state incarceration is active
Probation/Parole/Post Release Status Whether community supervision remains active
Current and Previous Location Where the state placed the person
Last Movement Date Date of the latest recorded state movement
Actual Release Date Recorded release from that sentence period
Projected Release Date A date that may still change

Sentence history may also list admission, conviction, sentence begin date, punishment type, minimum and maximum terms, docket, offense, and service status. Preserve state wording such as EXPIRATION or PAROLE/RETURN TO PAR. Explain an unclear abbreviation, but do not turn every result into “freed.”

Note: A state offender number is the strongest key for joining a release result to the correct detailed profile.

North Carolina Release Date Checks

Projected Release Date is NCDAC’s exact label for a forward calculation. It may change after sentence-credit work, credit loss or restoration, a sentence change, another judgment, a detainer, appellate relief, or a data correction. Actual Release Date is stronger evidence after the event, though it still proves only departure from the stated state term.

For modern structured sentences, North Carolina eliminated discretionary parole for offenses committed on or after October 1, 1994. State law requires service of the minimum and allows earned time to reduce the maximum, subject to governing rules and specific programs. Old-law cases can remain parole eligible. Do not apply one formula to every profile.

Projected date
A current estimate based on the sentence record and credits.
Actual date
The recorded date that the state term ended or changed status.
Parole
Conditional release used mainly for eligible older cases.
Post-release supervision
State oversight after physical prison release.

NC SAVAN can send certain state custody and supervision event notices. A notice is a valuable cross-check, but the offender profile and sentence record remain necessary when the precise legal status matters.

North Carolina Prison Records Contact

NCDAC says its records concern people who served in state prison or received state probation or parole supervision. It holds no local jail records. Use the public searches first, then request a specific public field when the online record cannot resolve the question. Internal offender records are generally confidential, while basic conviction, time served, sentence length, admission, and release information is publicly available.

North Carolina Department of Adult Correction
214 West Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
Mail: 5201 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-5201
919-733-2126
Relay/TTY: 919-866-3665

For an active supervision result, the profile may name a Probation/Parole Office. Davie County is served through Community Supervision District 22 at 507-C West Center Street, Lexington, NC 27292, 336-249-9332, but confirm the person’s assigned unit in the profile.

When the Davie portal shows transfer to NCDAC, use the state profile for the next movement and ultimate discharge. When the state search has no record, return to the county release record rather than treating that absence as proof of release.

Davie State Release Verification

A broad conclusion needs more than one database event. Inactive incarceration plus an Actual Release Date confirms departure from the state prison term. Active post-release status then shows ongoing supervision. The Davie court record explains the judgment, while a county jail record establishes when local custody ended before state admission.

If two records conflict, preserve each exact date and label. Contact the agency that originated the disputed entry. Arrest Date, Admission Date, Projected Release Date, Actual Release Date, and Last Movement Date serve separate roles. Never replace one with another.

The NCDAC release result screenshot below comes from the official state offender search.

North Carolina state prison release and offender search for Davie County

Its search controls and profile labels show why a released state prisoner must be checked in NCDAC rather than the Davie live jail roster.

A released profile can retain several historical sentence periods. Read the service status and dates within each period instead of taking the first release date shown. The most recent incarceration section and sentence history should agree on the term being checked. If they do not, save the offender number and ask NCDAC which entry controls the current status.

Note: A person not found in NCDAC may have only a county-jail record, a spelling mismatch, or no state correction history.