Madison County Projected and Actual Release Dates
A projected date is a calculation based on a sentence, current credit, governing law, and the person’s status at the time the record is produced. An actual release date is a past custody movement. It records when an agency’s custody ended and should also identify whether the person entered the community, began supervision, or transferred to another authority. Those facts are not interchangeable. A future date can move, while a completed movement entry describes an event that already happened.
Pretrial custody needs different language. A Madison County Jail detainee who has not received a sentence does not have a state prison release calculation. A bond order, dismissal, plea, sentence, or another hold may determine the next event. Even a court release order may be followed by processing time or blocked by another warrant. For a sentenced local inmate, the jail applies the judgment and certified credit. No published Madison County jail formula was located.
Official Madison County Release Date Fields
The Missouri Department of Corrections Sunshine data layout gives two exact labels: Sentence-I Minimum Release Date and Sentence Maximum Release Date. The first refers to a sentence-level minimum date tied to conditional release. The second marks the full institutional sentence endpoint for that sentence row. MODOC data can contain several rows for one person, so a completed row does not prove that every sentence or all supervision has ended.
The interactive MODOC Offender Search is useful for a person now in a correctional center or on active field supervision. It expressly excludes discharged offenders. Its exact on-screen projected-date label could not be verified through the CAPTCHA, so the official downloadable labels are the reliable terms. For older or fully discharged cases, use the nightly current-and-prior Sunshine database, compare every matching row, and seek agency confirmation when dates conflict.
The official MODOC data layout shows the minimum, maximum, and completed fields used in the state file.
The image supports the field names, but the related person and sentence rows still must be matched before a date is interpreted.
Find a Madison County Projected Release Date
Start with the authority that now holds the person. Madison County Jail and MODOC calculate different types of confinement. Federal custody uses a separate BOP record. A county departure to state prison is not a release from all custody, and an active parole result can describe someone outside prison who remains under MODOC supervision.
- Confirm the person’s full name, date of birth, case number, and DOC number when available. Do not merge people who share a name.
- Check the Madison County case in Case.net. Read the judgment, sentence length, concurrent or consecutive terms, amended orders, and any bond or release order.
- For state custody, search the MODOC active system. If the person is absent or fully discharged, move to the nightly Sunshine data rather than treating no result as proof.
- For a county sentence, call Madison County Jail at 573-783-2234. Ask for the court-certified jail credit, current calculation, holds, and the actual movement entry when release occurs.
- For a disputed state date, contact the institutional parole office or request MODOC records. Ask which sentence row, statute, credit, Board action, or hold produced the date.
The full Madison County release record search explains how to confirm where the person went after local custody ended. Note: A namesake match is not enough; compare the sentence, county of conviction, identifiers, and custody source.
Madison County Conditional and Maximum Release
Missouri’s section 558.011 divides covered felony sentences into a prison term and a conditional-release term. For a term of nine years or less, the conditional-release portion is generally one-third. For more than nine years through fifteen years, it is three years. For more than fifteen years, it is five years. Other sentencing laws and exclusions can override that general structure, so the judgment and offense-specific statute still control.
Conditional release means the person leaves the institution and enters community supervision through Missouri Probation and Parole. It is not final discharge. The Board can extend the conditional-release date, after the process authorized by law, up to the full sentence because of institutional violations. Program needs, detainers, consecutive sentences, sentence corrections, and later custody events can also affect the operational date.
- Minimum release
- The sentence-level conditional-release point recorded in the official MODOC data.
- Maximum release
- The full institutional endpoint for that sentence, subject to the correct judgment and linked sentence rows.
- Conditional release
- Community supervision after prison and before the sentence fully ends.
- Final discharge
- The end of correctional authority, not merely departure from a prison building.
Madison County Custody Credit and Good Time
Under section 558.031, a sentence begins when the person is received into MODOC or the place designated for confinement. Qualifying credit can apply for related custody before the sentence began. The sheriff certifies jail-time credit. Escape interrupts credit, and revocation can make the unserved balance relevant again. A date error may therefore begin with a missing or corrected custody certification rather than a simple arithmetic mistake.
Missouri section 558.041 authorizes discretionary additional good time on a superintendent’s recommendation and under department policy. It may recognize orderly service and program participation. It can also be rescinded for a rule or law violation. This is not a fixed award promised to every state prisoner, and it should not be converted into a standard number of days without an official calculation.
The Parole Board Blue Book describes administrative parole, time-credit ideas, exclusions, and time-to-serve guidelines. Guidelines help explain review, but they are not release guarantees. The Board may set dates above or below them when the law allows. A Madison County case should be checked against the current Blue Book linked from the Parole Board page, the judgment, and the relevant statute.
Madison County 85 Percent Release Limits
The phrase “85 percent” should never be applied to every Missouri inmate. Under section 558.019, a person convicted of a statutory dangerous felony and committed to MODOC generally must serve 85 percent of the imposed sentence, or reach age seventy after serving at least 40 percent, whichever occurs first. The statute defines the minimum prison term as time before parole, conditional release, or another early MODOC release.
The same law contains other listed-offense and prior-commitment rules, including 40, 50, or 80 percent minimums in specified cases. Offense date matters because the version of the statute in force may affect the calculation. For this statute’s calculations, life is treated as thirty years, and certain aggregate terms over seventy-five years are treated as seventy-five. Those special rules belong only in cases that fit the statutory conditions.
The official minimum-term statute is the source for the dangerous-felony limitation shown below.
The judgment, offense classification, offense date, and MODOC calculation are needed before this rule can be tied to a specific person.
Why Madison County Release Dates Change
A projected date is a live result of several records. One correction can move it. Some events affect eligibility, some affect credit, and others prevent the planned community release even though the sentence calculation itself did not change.
| Factor | Possible effect | Best confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Certified jail credit | Added or corrected pre-sentence credit can change the calculation. | Sheriff certification and MODOC sentence record |
| Good-time decision | A discretionary award or rescission can move the expected date. | Institutional record and governing policy |
| Board action | Parole or conditional-release timing may be set, denied, or extended. | Board decision and institutional parole office |
| Consecutive sentence | Another term can extend the total time to serve. | Judgment and every MODOC sentence row |
| Detainer or warrant | The person may transfer instead of entering the community. | Holding agency and receiving authority |
| New or amended order | A court can correct or alter the sentence basis. | Case.net docket and signed judgment |
| Return to custody | Revocation can make a remaining term active again. | P&P, Board, and custody movement records |
Actual release requires a past movement date and a release mechanism. A future minimum date by itself does not establish that event.
Does ECC Change Madison Release Dates?
No. Earned Compliance Credit, often shortened to ECC, belongs to eligible community supervision after release. MODOC describes a credit of thirty days for each compliant month for an eligible person, subject to exclusions and a minimum period under jurisdiction. It can help move an eligible probation, parole, or conditional-release client toward early final discharge.
ECC does not accrue while the person is in custody or absconding. Violation activity can prevent a month from earning credit. Most important, ECC is not prison good time and does not move the Sentence-I Minimum Release Date. It addresses the later end of supervision. A Madison County prisoner’s institutional date and a supervised person’s expected final discharge date are two separate questions that require different records.
Confirm a Madison County Release Calculation
No public Madison County jail good-time formula, weekend-release practice, or set release schedule was found. Do not import the MODOC state-prison formula into a local jail sentence. Ask the jail to identify the judgment it used, certified custody credit, any holds, and the recorded release date and destination. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office is at 124 N. Main St., Fredericktown, Missouri 63645, and its published phone is 573-783-2234.
A local court sentence can also be changed by an amended judgment or another case. Compare the jail calculation with the signed order in Case.net. If the numbers differ, ask which order date and credit certificate the jail used. Keep the answer tied to that booking and sentence rather than applying it to a later custody event.
For a state sentence, contact the institutional parole office for a specific date question. A narrow MODOC Sunshine request can seek the actual institutional release date, release mechanism, supervision start and end dates, discharge date, and records that explain a change to the minimum or maximum date. Use the person’s name and DOC number. If an alert is also useful, the Madison County VINELink inmate search explains Missouri’s current MOVANS route, but a notice still must be checked against the source record.
When the date arrives, verify the event. Ask whether the person entered the community, began conditional release or parole, or transferred to another agency. That final destination is what turns a projected Madison County release date into an accurate custody account.