Find Hartford Correctional Center Releases

Hartford Correctional Center Release Routes

Hartford Correctional Center is a Connecticut Department of Correction facility with a jail function. It primarily holds adult men before trial and serves courts in Bristol, Enfield, Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, New Britain, Rockville, and West Hartford. Release can mean bond, a court-ordered discharge, time served, or movement into community supervision. It can also mean transfer. Someone may leave Hartford Correctional Center for another CT DOC institution, a court appearance, a secure medical placement, federal custody, or immigration custody. Those outcomes are not interchangeable.

A Hartford Correctional Center release record should be read as a custody event. Status, current location, admission and sentencing dates, minimum, maximum, or estimated release dates, and a detainer can show what followed. A court case may explain a bond, dismissal, sentence, probation term, or remand. When the person enters parole or special parole, physical custody ends while state supervision continues. The Hartford County released inmate search and records coverage joins those systems for a named-person check.

Confirm Hartford Correctional Center Release

The direct CT DOC inmate information search is the first official lookup. It accepts a DOC number, last name, first name, and date of birth. CT DOC advises that a number alone or the first few letters of a last name may work better than a crowded query. Match identity with more than a name. Then read status and current location before examining the date fields.

1. Search the CT DOC system by inmate number when known, or start with a partial last name.
2. Compare the date of birth and DOC number. Similar names can point to different people.
3. Read status and current location. Another DOC facility means transfer, not release from correctional custody.
4. Review minimum, maximum, and estimated release dates plus any detainer. These fields answer different questions.
5. Check the Connecticut Judicial Branch case search for the court disposition that led to release or continued custody.
6. Request the existing release or movement record when the online result does not provide formal confirmation.

CT DOC says its public inmate information is updated daily but can change fast. Youthful-offender information and people held on behalf of ICE are excluded. If federal custody is possible, the Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates and releases after 1982. The U.S. Marshals Service is the relevant custody agency before delivery to BOP, while PACER holds the federal case record. DHS VINE supplies a separate ICE notification route.

A missing or changed result needs context. The public search is a status snapshot, not a full movement ledger or court history. A name search can also fail because of spelling, identity data, an exclusion, or quick processing. Compare the result with the court docket and ask the department for a defined record before deciding where the person went. Connecticut VINE is useful when a person is still in custody and a future change alert is needed, but the alert does not state the legal reason for release.

Hartford Correctional Center Records

The official Hartford Correctional Center page confirms the facility contact and operating role. The center can answer facility questions, but a formal release, discharge, or movement record is routed through the CT DOC Freedom of Information Office. For a current status question, CT DOC also lists a Public Information Office.

For informal inmate-information follow-up, the Public Information Office takes calls at (860) 692-7780 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Written mail goes to Connecticut Department of Correction, Public Information Office, 24 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109. A request should include the full legal name, date of birth, DOC number if known, Hartford Correctional Center, the relevant date range, and the exact fields needed.

Keep the informal and formal channels distinct. A phone call may resolve a current location question, while FOI is the path for an existing document. The facility page confirms the operator and contact, but it does not publish a 24-hour or 72-hour release list. Hartford County also has no sheriff jail app identified in the research. A requester seeking a booking photograph should ask CT DOC for the existing nonexempt image and should not assume the public search always displays one.

Hartford Correctional Center Facts

The center is a level 4, high-security urban correctional facility designed for adult men held before trial. CT DOC, not a Hartford County sheriff, operates it. That distinction controls the release search. Connecticut combines pretrial jail custody and sentenced prison custody under one state department, so the same DOC data can contain accused and sentenced statuses. Current incarceration also does not prove conviction.

At the time researched, the official page listed Warden Devonia Long and Deputy Wardens William Foote and Eric McKenzie. Administrative names can change, so use the facility page for a current contact. The courts served matter when a release must be reconciled with a case. Searching only Hartford Judicial District can miss a case connected to New Britain, Manchester, Bristol, Enfield, Rockville, Middletown, or West Hartford.

Note: The listed administrators reflect captured research; check the official facility page before directing a current request by name.

Hartford Correctional Center History

Hartford Correctional Center opened in 1977 as a level 4 pretrial facility for adult men. Two dormitories opened in 1990, followed by two more in 1991. Those details place the center within Connecticut's state-run correctional network rather than a modern county sheriff jail. The official page also says Hartford Correctional Center oversees a secure medical-surgical ward at UConn Health.

The history has a practical effect on release research. Older references to a county jail or sheriff may not describe today's agency. Modern requests go to CT DOC. Current custody status comes from the department's inmate information system, while case outcomes come from the Judicial Branch. A Hartford County label describes geography, not the legal owner of the jail record.

The official facility history also places the urban center on a 10-acre site and ties it to a broad court-service area. That footprint helps explain why a Hartford Correctional Center record may connect to a court outside central Hartford. The release path must follow the actual court location and DOC movement, not an assumption based on the facility name alone. Oversight of the UConn Health secure ward adds another local distinction: a person can leave the main building for medical placement while CT DOC custody remains in force.

See the official facility details before relying on an address or administrator. The source image below captures the state page used for the Hartford Correctional Center release contact.

View the CT DOC Hartford Correctional Center address and information source.

The state facility block confirms where Hartford Correctional Center sits in the release-record chain, but it is not an individual release certificate.

Request Hartford Release Records

The CT DOC FOI Office coordinates access to existing nonexempt department records. Its address is 24 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109; phone (860) 692-6290; fax (860) 692-7873. The state also provides an online GovQA request portal. Ask for a defined custody episode rather than all records connected with a name.

A clear request identifies the person, date range, facility, and requested fields, such as release date, release type, movement history, and public detainer information. Connecticut law generally caps state-agency paper copies at $0.25 per page and permits prepayment when estimated fees reach $10. The agency may withhold or redact exempt material, including records that create a correctional security risk or material protected by erasure and privacy laws.

The request can also distinguish a release from a transfer. Asking for the record that shows the end of the Hartford Correctional Center custody episode, the next location or authority if public, and the stated release type gives the office a concrete scope. The FOI Act provides access to records the agency keeps; it does not require staff to create an explanation that is not already documented. Court records may still be needed to interpret a bond, dismissal, sentence, or probation order.

Connecticut erasure law can change what remains public. Dismissed cases, not-guilty outcomes, pardons, and eligible older convictions may be erased under the statute's conditions. A public court search can also change because of a correction or pardon. If an older event disappears, do not infer an outcome. Use the current official record and respect any lawful removal or restriction.

Release

The end of a specific custody hold, which may lead to the community or another authority.

Discharge

The end of a sentence or supervision obligation, not merely a move between facilities.

Detainer

A request from another authority that can cause continued custody or transfer.

Remand

A court order returning a person to custody.

Note: A prompt FOI response may acknowledge or clarify a request before responsive records are gathered, reviewed, and released.