Kent County Detention Center Releases

Kent Detention Center Release Paths

Kent County Detention Center is a county adult detention center. It holds pretrial detainees, people serving local sentences, federal detainees, and people in work-release programs. A pretrial detainee may return to the community after bond, recognizance, dismissal, pretrial release, or another court order. A locally sentenced person may leave after time served, sentence expiration as adjusted by lawful credits, or a court modification.

Other departures are not community release. A state-sentenced person can leave KCDC for a DPSCS reception or prison placement. A federal detainee may move under U.S. Marshals authority or enter BOP custody. Another agency may act on a warrant or detainer. Work release, home detention, and pretrial programs can place someone outside the secure building while legal control continues. The KCDC closing entry should identify the event as the facility records it.

Note: A local booking can close while state, federal, immigration, or another county's custody continues without interruption.

Confirm Kent Detention Center Releases

Kent County does not publish an official current jail roster, recent-release feed, or historical release archive. The absence of a web result cannot confirm release. Maryland VINE is the quickest public status check for a recent county custody event, but the originating detention record is the better source for exact execution time and reason.

1. Search Maryland VINE by exact name or identifier, then compare the reporting agency and available identifying details.
2. Read the status wording and last update exactly as displayed. A release label does not state where the person went next.
3. Call KCDC with the full name, date of birth if known, booking period, and case number. Ask whether the booking closed through community release or transfer.
4. Review both Kent District and Circuit Court results for bond, dismissal, sentence, time served, probation, commitment, or another order.
5. Follow a documented transfer through DPSCS, BOP, ICE, or the identified receiving jail.
6. Request the existing KCDC booking-and-release record when the exact date, time, code, authority, or destination matters.

The complete named-person workflow and record-field inventory are available on the Kent County released inmates search.

Kent Detention Center Release Records

The official Kent County Detention Center page identifies the Warden and publishes the administrative contact information. Its weekday office hours are not release-processing hours. No official source gives public release hours, a family waiting area, an exit point, weekend instructions, or property-return steps. Sheriff Dennis Hickman's Office occupies Unit B in the same public-safety complex, but it is not the custodian of KCDC's detention record.

Address a written request to the detention-center custodian or Warden. The county Citizen's Request Center can route a message to the Detention Center. Because that portal is not expressly labeled an MPIA portal, state that statutory handling under Maryland's Public Information Act is requested.

Name an existing booking-and-release record. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking period, and case or booking number. Ask for the admission and release dates, release type, authority, destination or receiving agency if disclosable, and related identifiers. Request electronic delivery, segregable public fields, a cost estimate, and the legal basis for any withheld part.

Note: Confirm inmate-mail instructions by phone because the county page contains a ZIP-code conflict outside its main contact block.

Kent Detention Center Custody Scale

KCDC is operated as a Kent County government department. A standards audit describes adult men and women in pretrial, federal, sentenced, and work-release categories across maximum through minimum security. That mixed role matters more to a release inquiry than the number of occupied beds.

The capacity breakdown was reported as 60 male, 16 female, and 5 federal spaces, with no days over capacity in the cited period. These are population figures. They are not booking totals, release counts, or proof of who left during any hour or day.

Kent Detention Release Record Fields

No public KCDC interface exposes a complete field set. A narrow request should identify the parts needed rather than demand a new report. The booking number ties the event to one stay. Admission and release timestamps mark its bounds. The case number connects the jail entry to court authority. Release type and destination help separate community release from continued custody.

Do not translate an unfamiliar KCDC code without asking the custodian. “Release,” “transfer,” “writ,” “detainer pickup,” and “time served” have different legal and practical results. The jail record should be read with the court entry and any receiving-agency record.

Kent Detention Center Release History

The Maryland State Archives reports that the local jail was authorized for rebuild and expansion in 1985 and renamed the Detention Center in 1996. Alternative programs, including work release, community service, and home detention, date from that period. The current county staffing list still names a Home Detention, Pre-Trial and Transportation Unit.

Maryland law specifically permits the County Commissioners to establish community service, home detention, pretrial release, and work release at KCDC. Court-authorized participation can put someone outside the secure structure while conditions and legal control continue. A program movement should not be called final discharge unless the controlling records say so.

The facility's current mixed role is shown on the official detention-center source.

The official county page provides the reliable local contact route when no Kent County release feed or public jail roster exists.

Note: Alternative-program participation may change physical location without ending KCDC control, the court case, or later supervision.

Kent Detention Transfer Follow-Up

A DPSCS current-custody result means a state transfer continued confinement even though the KCDC episode ended. If the state locator returns no person, preserve only that negative finding. DPSCS expressly omits people no longer in custody and may omit some short-sentence placements. Use VINE, the court case, and a DPSCS records request before stating that state custody ended.

For a federal detainee, the BOP locator can show a federal release date or current institution for many records. A U.S. Marshals movement may not yet appear there, so the federal docket and an appropriate records request may also be needed. ICE's locator is primarily a current detention tool. Its failure to return a person does not prove release, transfer, or removal.

The BOP search accepts a register number and several other federal identifiers, as well as a name with optional age, race, and sex filters. A result can list a release date and show that BOP custody ended, but BOP cautions that another justice system may still hold the person. Records generally cover federal inmates released after 1982, with older federal material routed to the National Archives. ICE ODLS instead searches by an A-number and country of birth or by exact biographical details. These federal tools do not contain KCDC's local release time or release code.

No official evidence identified a current Kent County ICE detention contract. Never describe an immigration transfer unless KCDC or ICE documents it. The receiving custodian's record becomes the next authoritative link once a transfer is confirmed.

Kent Detention Release Correspondence

The official KCDC contact block uses Chestertown ZIP code 21620. A separate inmate-mail paragraph on the same county page shows 21260, which appears inconsistent with the official facility address. Use 21620 for records correspondence based on the main contact block, and call before sending inmate mail or material that depends on a special mailing route.

Release-record correspondence should be labeled for the custodian or Warden and should identify the record sought. Keep a copy of the request, its delivery confirmation, any cost estimate, and the response. If a timestamp or code appears wrong, ask KCDC for its correction process and supply the exact field plus supporting documentation.

Correction and expungement are different. Correction addresses inaccurate source data. Expungement removes qualifying records from public inspection under legal authority. Save an expungement order and proof of agency compliance because the underlying public record may later be unavailable through ordinary access.

Note: Keep the agency response with the original request so later searches can be compared to the record actually supplied.