Perry County Jail Release Path
The official county facility directory lists Perry County Jail at 202 Pickens Street in Marion. Local reporting also identifies the jail as the James Hood Detention Facility. For a local jail release, the key record is not an ADOC prison record. It is the sheriff or jail booking record, paired with the Perry County court event that authorized release.
A person may leave this custody track by bond, court order, time served, dismissal, sentence to probation, transfer to ADOC, transfer to another county, or hold pickup by another agency. The release record should say the release date, release reason, booking number if assigned, case or warrant number, and whether another agency received the person. That last field matters in Perry County because reported closure conditions can move the physical release point outside Marion.
| Release route | Where to verify |
|---|---|
| Bond or court release | Perry County Sheriff's Office, Perry County Circuit Clerk, and Alacourt |
| Out-of-county placement release | Perry County plus the receiving jail that had physical custody |
| State prison transfer | ADOC inmate search while current, then ADOC records, VNS, or ABPP |
| ICE or USMS hold | County release record plus ICE ODLS, BOP, USMS, or federal court records |
Confirm a Perry County Jail Release
No verified official Perry County, Alabama, public recent-release feed was found in the reviewed sources. That means the county jail release record and court record are the practical confirmation route. A person who has been released may not appear on a live roster, and a person moved to another jail may not be traceable by looking only for a Marion jail event.
- Gather the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, and case or warrant number.
- Contact the Perry County Sheriff's Office or jail records channel and ask whether the person was booked on a Perry County matter.
- Ask whether the person stayed in Perry County or was held at Cullman, Wilcox, or another receiving jail during the reported closure period.
- Request the release date, release time, release reason, receiving agency if any, and booking number.
- Use the Perry County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt ACCESS to confirm the legal event behind the release.
Perry County released inmates should be checked by custody type. A jail release is local. A state prison discharge runs through ADOC and ABPP. A federal release runs through BOP. An immigration hold runs through ICE.
Perry County Jail Contact
The official contact path for jail release records is the Perry County Sheriff's Office and Perry County Jail. Use the request for a narrow custody question, such as release date, release reason, booking number, and whether any transfer followed the local jail exit.
Perry County Jail / James Hood Detention Facility
202 Pickens St.
Marion, AL 36756
Phone: (334) 683-6534
Operating agency: Perry County Sheriff's Office
Mailing address: P.O. Box 157, Marion, AL 36756
Sheriff listed in research: Roy Fikes
Ask whether the office will provide a written release record, booking photo if disclosable, and any transfer notation. If the release was processed by a receiving jail, Perry County can help identify the physical custodian, but the receiving facility may hold the final timestamp.
James Hood Closure Release Angle
Research Section 19 flags the James Hood Detention Facility closure as the distinctive facility issue for Perry County. WSFA reported in January 2026 that the jail had been closed for months after an escape and repair issues, with detainees housed in Wilcox County, Cullman County, and other locations. WAKA and ABC 33/40 also reported the shutdown and movement of detainees after the 2025 escape.
This does not mean every Perry County detainee was released. It means a local release check must ask two questions: which court or agency controlled the case, and which jail had the person on the release date? The Perry County case may stay in Marion court even when the jail-door release record sits with another Alabama county jail.
That same point affects records requests. A narrow request to Perry County should ask for the booking record, release reason, transfer or hold notation, and the identity of any receiving jail. A matching request to the receiving jail should ask for the physical release timestamp, property notation, and whether the person left to the community or another agency. Together, those records show both the legal release authority and the custody handoff.
Note: Treat any similarly named Perry County inmate portal from another state as a wrong-jurisdiction lead, not an Alabama record.
Search Perry County Release Records
Use the search tool for broad public-record discovery, then verify any custody result with the agency that created the record. For Perry County Jail / James Hood Detention Facility, that means sheriff records, the receiving jail if one was used, and the Circuit Clerk or Alacourt for the court event.
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