Find Union County Jail Releases

Union County Jail Release Paths

A Union County Jail departure is one custody event. A bond, recognizance order, dismissal, time-served judgment, sentence expiration, or probation order may return the person to the community. A felony sentence may instead lead to the Tennessee Department of Correction. Another warrant can route the person to a different county. A federal writ can place the person with the U.S. Marshals Service, while an immigration detainer can lead to ICE.

The local release sheet should identify the date, time, type or authority, and destination if those fields are kept. Pair it with the court order that authorized bond, sentence, dismissal, or probation. When the record says transfer, ask which agency accepted custody and on what date. The end of Union County Jail custody must not be described as unrestricted release until that destination is checked.

Confirm Union County Jail Releases

The jail controlled the physical departure, so it is the first source for a recent local event. Ask narrow questions and record the date, time, phone number, agency, and limited answer. If staff cannot disclose details by phone, ask for the current public-records route. A refusal or inability to match a name does not prove either release or continued custody.

1. Call the Union County Jail at 865-992-6262. Ask whether local custody ended and whether another agency took charge.
2. Ask for the recorded release date and time, release type or authority, and receiving agency when a transfer appears.
3. Request the existing booking and release record through Sheriff's records at 865-992-5212.
4. Use the Union County court portal, then obtain the operative order or judgment from the clerk.
5. Move to FOIL, ICE ODLS, BOP, federal court, or the named county jail when the record identifies a transfer.

The full Union County released inmate search separates local, state, and federal sources. A short jail stay may never appear in TDOC FOIL. Conversely, a person transferred into TDOC should be checked through the statewide system rather than a county roster.

Union County Jail Records Contact

The official county page publishes separate jail and Sheriff's Office contacts. It lists the jail line but does not separately state the jail's street address. The address below belongs to the Sheriff's administrative and records office. Confirm the correct entrance before traveling, and do not substitute the Circuit Court Clerk's Main Street address as a jail entrance.

Sheriff Billy Breeding and Jail Administrator Jeremy Meltabarger are identified on the county page. The posted courthouse hours must not be turned into jail release hours or a claim that the jail phone is unavailable at other times. The exact records-counter schedule was not separately established, so call before a visit.

The county also lists criminal investigations at 865-992-9407 and nonemergency dispatch at 865-992-4062. Those lines serve different roles and should not replace the jail or records contact for routine release verification.

The official sheriff and jail contact page provides the source details shown above.

The image documents the official contact route, not a live inmate roster or release feed.

Request Union County Jail Records

Ask the Sheriff's Office for the record as maintained. A useful request identifies the person, a booking or case number if known, and an approximate custody period. It can seek the booking number, arresting agency, admission date and time, charge, bond or court authority, release date and time, release type, destination, and associated booking photograph if maintained and disclosable.

The Tennessee Public Records Act broadly includes photographs and electronic data, subject to exemptions and other laws. Inspection is normally free. State guidance lists copy charges of $0.15 per black-and-white page and $0.50 per color page, plus labor after the first hour unless a higher actual cost is documented. Ask for an estimate first. The office need not create a new report or perform analysis.

When records are not readily available, state guidance gives the custodian seven business days to produce them, deny the request in writing with a basis, or provide a written time estimate. A written form may be required for copies. If a record is denied or redacted, ask for the cited legal ground.

Note: Supply enough identifiers to avoid a namesake mistake, but do not send sensitive data through ordinary email until the agency confirms its channel.

Union County Jail Court Proof

The Circuit Court Clerk maintains dockets, minutes, orders, and judgments. These documents can distinguish a bond release from dismissal, time served, probation, sentence completion, or transfer. The public case portal is a starting point, but a short line on a docket should be followed by the operative document.

A bond order does not mean the case ended. A judgment records the sentence. A dismissal or nolle prosequi addresses the charge, while a probation order explains supervised community status. A revocation may explain a later return to custody. General Sessions often handles initial criminal matters and misdemeanors, while Circuit or Criminal Court covers felony proceedings and appeals, but the actual case assignment must be confirmed.

The clerk is Barbara Williams, at 901 Main Street, Suite 201, Maynardville, with phone 865-992-5493. That is a court address. It is not the separately verified Union County Jail entrance.

Union County Jail MobilePatrol

The Sheriff's own website promotes MobilePatrol even though it does not provide a comparable browser roster or release list. The promotion makes the app a potential local digital channel. It does not prove that Union County publishes a released tab, a particular time window, a booking image, or a fixed set of fields.

Before relying on the app, select the actual Union County agency and note the category, labels, timestamp, and update notice visible at that moment. If no match or release filter appears, return to the jail, records unit, and court. A transient app observation is weaker than the underlying release record.

The MobilePatrol app listing identifies the product promoted by the sheriff.

This source shows the app channel only; Union-specific release functions still require a live check.

Union County Jail TDOC Transfers

If the county record says the person was released to TDOC, search the Tennessee Felony Offender Information Lookup. FOIL covers felony offenders currently or formerly in TDOC custody or supervision. It may display incarcerated, parole, probation, or inactive status along with location, offense, sentence, hearing, and release information.

A county misdemeanant or brief pretrial detainee may never appear in FOIL. For that person, rely on the Union County Jail record and court file. A FOIL date also needs context because parole eligibility, sentence expiration, a hearing date, and actual physical release differ. The exact projected-date label was not verified in the underlying research and must not be invented.

Union County Jail ICE Transfers

An immigration detainer may cause the person to leave the Union County Jail while entering ICE custody. Ask the jail for the receiving authority and transfer date, then search ICE ODLS promptly. A current ICE match disproves an assumption that the person returned to the community when county custody ended.

ICE states that ODLS covers current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days. Search by a nine-digit A-number plus country of birth, or use exact biographical details. After that limited release window, a missing result is inconclusive. ICE departure also does not by itself resolve the underlying immigration case.

Union County Jail Release Logistics

No reviewed official source gives a fixed release time, exit door, family waiting area, weekend procedure, property-return steps, or local good-time calculation. These are operational questions for the jail. Date and attribute the answer because procedures can change, and do not import practices from another Tennessee county.

Ask where property is returned, where an authorized pickup may wait, whether weekends or holidays affect scheduled processing, and what identification is needed. Courthouse-office hours do not set the jail's release schedule. A court order may authorize release before staff complete the physical process.

ETHRA offers advance-arranged rural public transit to the general public, but it is not documented as an on-demand discharge shuttle. The provider requests advance notice, so confirm a date and arrange travel directly rather than assuming a ride will be at the jail.

About Union County Jail

The Union County Jail is a county facility operated by the Union County Sheriff's Office. It is the single local detention facility supported by the official sources reviewed for this project. No separate Maynardville or Luttrell holding facility, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was located inside Union County.

That local map does not mean every arrestee remains at the jail. State, federal, immigration, and other-county transfers are real possibilities. Those systems are search channels for a named transfer, not extra Union County facility pages. Keeping the map narrow prevents a distant receiving institution from being misrepresented as a local jail.