Perry County Jail Release Paths
Perry County Jail is a county detention facility operated by the Perry County Sheriff's Office. Someone can leave it after posting bond, receiving recognizance or another court order, completing a local sentence, or having charges dismissed. Other exits are custodial handoffs. A person may be transported to the Tennessee Department of Correction, another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, ICE, or another agency with lawful authority.
Those paths answer different questions. The iSOMS Release Date tells when the booking exited Perry County Jail. It does not always label the release type or destination. The criminal docket may show bond, dismissal, a sentence, time-served credit, probation, or a commitment order. A destination search establishes whether the person entered another custody system.
| Perry jail exit | What to verify next | Community release? |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or recognizance | Release date plus court bond or release order | Usually, but the criminal case may remain open |
| Local sentence completed | Release entry, judgment, and jail calculation | Usually, unless another hold applies |
| Probation | Judgment and TDOC supervision status | Community supervision, not sentence erasure |
| TDOC transfer | FOIL status and assigned institution | No, custody continues |
| Other agency pickup | Receiving agency and destination record | No, unless that agency later releases the person |
A charge shown on the jail card is an allegation unless a court entered a conviction. Release after bond does not end the case. Likewise, a transfer date should never be described as freedom from custody.
Confirm a Perry County Jail Release
The official Perry County iSOMS Jail Search is the best first route for an older county booking. It accepts first and last name and includes a Released control. Search the full legal spelling, then a careful variant if needed. Open the matching entry and require a populated Release Date. Compare age, intake date, city, arresting department, charge, and case information so a similar name is not mistaken for the person sought.
- Choose Released in the iSOMS historical search and enter the person's first and last name.
- Open the possible match and confirm the intake details, identity fields, charge, and booking context.
- Record the populated Release Date. A blank field does not confirm an exit from Perry County Jail.
- Check the Perry County court docket for the order or disposition tied to that booking.
- If TDOC class, a felony sentence, or transfer appears, search FOIL and read status and location together.
- Ask the jail for the release disposition and receiving agency when the public entries do not show the destination.
The Perry County court guide links to Tennessee Court Information. Select Perry County and search the case. A docket entry can explain why the jail processed an exit, but the order and physical release entry may have different times. For a full county search sequence, use the Perry County released-inmate search and records path.
Two checks are required: leaving Perry County Jail and entering the community are separate events, especially when TDOC or another agency is involved.
Note: A missing name on the current roster is not release proof; use the Released search and destination records.
Perry County Jail Records Contact
The Perry County Sheriff's Office is the local custodian to contact about a booking release entry. Call before sending a written request. Confirm the current public-records coordinator, delivery method, and any cost estimate, since no official public-counter hours or Perry-specific copy schedule was found in the research.
Perry County Sheriff's Office and Jail582 Bethel Road
Linden, TN 37096
Phone: 931-589-8803
Hours: Call to confirm
Official record: Perry County iSOMS
Ask for the booking sheet, booked and released dates and times, release disposition or type, destination or receiving agency if maintained and public, and the booking identifier. Supply a name, approximate intake date, release date, and case number when known. Avoid sending sensitive identifiers until staff confirm the correct channel.
The UT County Technical Assistance Service sheriff directory lists the Perry sheriff contact. The source capture below helps identify the correct local office, but the jail should confirm its current records custodian.
The directory identifies Sheriff Nick Weems and the Bethel Road office. It is a routing source, not an individual release log or proof of a person's custody status.
Perry County Jail Custody Mix
The public roster shows that Perry County Jail does not hold only one kind of inmate. Entries can involve pretrial detention, a local sentence, a hold, probation or parole matters, or a Tennessee Department of Corrections classification. The Class field may state TENN DEPT OF CORRECTIONS or identify a sentence class. That label is a custody clue. It is not a release reason.
TDOC's April 2025 jail summary reported 58 people against 59 beds at Perry County Jail, including 22 TDOC backup prisoners. The figures are an end-of-month snapshot submitted for statewide reporting. They are not a list of releases, an annual count, or evidence about any named person. Their value is structural: a substantial state-sentenced group can be housed locally while waiting for transfer.
A later monthly snapshot can differ. Current custody should always come from the live record. Still, the reported mix explains why FOIL is an essential Perry County check rather than a remote statewide fallback.
Perry County Jail Release Activity
The official Perry County 72-hour intake/release view provides a short rolling window. The portal navigation calls it Jail Intake/Release (last 72 hours), while a page heading has called the results Current Inmates Last 72 Hours. That local mismatch means each card must be read field by field.
The feed can show name, age, classification, race and sex, intake timestamp, city, arresting department and officer, Release Date, charge, bond, and an image link when supplied. A populated Release Date confirms that the booking exited Perry County Jail. A blank Release Date means appearance in the mixed feed does not establish release. Bond amount also does not prove that bond was posted.
No separately advertised Perry County 24-hour release product was found. Readers may compare the timestamps in the official 72-hour view with the observation time and isolate exits during the prior day. That is a manual filter, not a distinct sheriff list. No formal refresh interval or online retention period was published.
When a recent card rotates away, return to Jail Search and select Released. If the booking is no longer indexed, contact the records custodian for the booking and release log. Preserve the lookup date because the online window moves.
Note: Perry's rolling view mixes intake and release events, so the populated Release Date is the decisive field.
Perry County Jail Transfer Checks
A TDOC-sentenced person may remain physically in Perry County Jail as a backup prisoner before transport. If that person vanishes from iSOMS, use the TDOC Felony Offender Information Lookup. FOIL covers felony offenders who are or were in TDOC custody or supervision. Search by TOMIS number where possible, or by exact name with careful comparison of identity and sentence fields.
Read the whole state record. Incarcerated at another location means county custody ended but confinement continued. Parole or probation points to community supervision. Inactive means the TDOC record is no longer active, but the reason and relevant dates must not be guessed. FOIL can also provide an assigned location, offense and sentence data, release information, and parole-hearing fields when available.
For an older state record, TDOC supplies an archived offender-record request route. The source capture below shows that state-level fallback for a person whose Perry County booking involved TDOC custody.
An archive request should identify the offender with a full name, TOMIS number, and date of birth when known. Provide only the details needed to locate the record. Ask for movement or release history that can distinguish transfer from discharge.
Other destinations need their own systems. Another county's jail record covers that receiving jail. The BOP locator covers federal prison custody, while a USMS pretrial defendant is traced through the federal court docket and actual holding facility. ICE's current locator can help after an immigration pickup. None of those systems is a Perry County Jail archive.
Request Perry County Jail Records
Tennessee's Public Records Act is principally at T.C.A. §§ 10-7-503 and 10-7-506. It gives Tennessee citizens inspection rights subject to exemptions and allows reasonable copy charges under an adopted policy. If the record cannot be produced promptly, the custodian generally must within seven business days provide it, deny access with a written basis, or give a written estimate of the time needed. That is a response rule, not a guaranteed production deadline.
A focused request reduces ambiguity. Ask for an existing booking sheet, the release-date and disposition entry, any public receiving-agency field, and the booking photo when needed. State whether inspection or an electronic copy will work. Ask the office to redact protected fields and release separable public portions instead of withholding the full record.
- Call 931-589-8803 and confirm the custodian and accepted request route.
- Give the name, approximate intake date, booking number, and case number when known.
- Name each requested field, including release time, disposition, and destination if maintained.
- Ask for an itemized estimate before copies or qualifying labor costs are incurred.
- Request a written legal basis for any denial and ask for the public remainder.
The Office of Open Records Counsel guideline rates are $0.15 for a standard black-and-white page and $0.50 for a standard color page. No Perry County jail fee schedule was verified, so those amounts should not be presented as the jail's final price. Inspection may avoid copy charges. Security, medical, juvenile, victim, investigative, sealed, or expunged information may be restricted under current law.
Perry County Jail Record Limits
Several operational facts were not published in an authoritative Perry County source. The research found no guaranteed iSOMS refresh interval, no stated historical retention period, no public release-processing schedule, no identified exit door or family waiting area, and no documented property-return procedure. Call the jail for current logistics. Do not infer a release hour from a court hearing or tell anyone to wait at an unverified location.
The Perry County Courthouse has two basement holding cells used while cases are called. They are temporary court-day space, not a separate detention facility or independent release-record source. A person leaving those cells may return to the jail, be processed under a court order, or move as directed. Verify the outcome through the court order and Perry County Jail record.
- Release date
- The recorded time a booking left Perry County Jail.
- Release disposition
- The legal or administrative reason for the exit, when maintained.
- Receiving agency
- The next custodian after a transfer or hold pickup.
- Community release
- An exit from confinement into the community, with supervision when ordered.
No state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was identified inside Perry County. A person can still be transferred outside the county. Ask separately whether the person left Perry County Jail and whether the person entered the community. Those answers may come from different records.
Note: Confirm current jail procedures by phone because online custody records do not publish release pickup, property, or waiting instructions.