Governor Kay Ivey Complex Records

Releases from Governor Kay Ivey Complex

ADOC announced that the Elmore Specialized Men's Facility would be named the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex. The announcement describes a 54-building complex with 1,438,448 gross square feet, capacity for 4,000 male inmates, intake capability, enhanced medical and mental-health services, and vocational and reentry programming. Those details make the complex an important future release source in Elmore County.

When operational for a specific person, release from this complex should be researched as an ADOC state-prison release. The sheriff's Elmore County Jail roster will not be the release record unless the person also had a separate county jail booking. Use ADOC current custody data while available, then public records, ABPP supervision, VNS notifications, and the court case after release or transfer.

How to Confirm a Future Release

Because this page is based on an ADOC announcement and facility map context, do not infer current operational release details beyond the research. If a later ADOC record identifies the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex as a person's facility, use the same state-prison path used for Elmore, Staton, Tutwiler, and Frank Lee.

1. Search ADOC by AIS number while the person may still be incarcerated.
2. Compare facility, commit county, case number, offense, sentence date, custody level, minimum release date, and parole consideration date.
3. Check whether the person discharged, paroled, entered mandatory release, or transferred to another ADOC facility.
4. Use ADOC public records for release or discharge data after the person leaves current custody.
5. Use ABPP for parole, probation, mandatory release, and local Elmore supervision.
6. Use the sentencing court for sentence, jail credit, disposition, and later orders.

The Elmore County released inmate search should continue to separate the county jail from ADOC facilities even when both are in the same county.

Complex Records and Contact

For any future person-specific release request, include AIS number, full name, date of birth if known, commit county, case number, facility name, release date if known, and whether the request concerns discharge, parole, mandatory release, transfer, or intake history. ADOC's current public-record request form identifies a non-refundable $20 processing fee.

About the Governor Kay Ivey Complex

The complex matters because Elmore County already has several ADOC facilities. Adding a large intake-capable men's complex increases the chance that a search for "Elmore County released inmate" is actually a state-prison question. Intake capability also means a person may appear there early in state custody before classification or transfer. Intake is not release, and transfer is not release.

The ADOC Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex announcement is the source shown below, and it supports future state-custody context rather than current county release lookup.

ADOC Fields to Watch

When the complex appears in individual records, ADOC's release-related fields should be read the same way as other Alabama prisons. Minimum Release Date is the earliest scheduled release to probation or end of sentence and can change because of good-time loss, new cases, or sentence changes from the circuit clerk. Parole Consideration Date is a board-scheduling marker, not a guaranteed release date.

After release, ADOC's current-only inmate search may no longer show the person. That is when ADOC public records, ABPP supervision, VNS notifications, the sentencing court, and any applicable registry become the confirmation path.

Same County, Different Custodian

The complex is part of Elmore County's same-place-name problem. Elmore County Jail is sheriff custody. Elmore Correctional Facility, Staton, Tutwiler, Frank Lee, Draper history, and this complex are ADOC context. Federal and immigration releases use BOP, ICE, USMS, or federal court. The custodian determines the release record.

Future Update Points

Because the captured source is an ADOC announcement, later updates should add only facts that become official. Useful future details would include the exact operational opening status, official facility page, public phone number, mailing address, intake procedures, visitation rules, release-record office routing, and whether ADOC lists the complex as the current facility for named inmates. Until those facts exist in official sources, this page should stay conservative.

The release logic, however, is already clear. A person released from the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex would be a state prisoner leaving ADOC custody or moving to ABPP supervision, not a county detainee leaving Elmore County Jail. If the facility's intake role is involved, intake should be treated as the start of state processing rather than a release event. If a person transfers from the complex to another ADOC facility, that is continued custody unless a later record shows discharge or supervision.

Planning Records vs Release Records

The ADOC announcement is a planning and facility-development source, not a person-specific custody record. It supports the fact that Elmore County has a major planned state corrections complex and explains the expected scale and functions, but it cannot identify whether a named person has been released. Person-specific release confirmation still requires the ordinary state-prison record chain once the facility is operational in an individual case.

That distinction protects readers from treating facility news as a lookup source. A construction announcement can explain why Elmore County appears in state-prison searches, but only ADOC custody records, ADOC public-record responses, ABPP supervision information, VNS notifications, and court records can confirm what happened to a particular person.

Custody Terms to Preserve

For future complex records, preserve exact terms from the source. Intake, classification, transfer, minimum release date, parole consideration, mandatory release, and discharge are not interchangeable. Intake may begin state processing. Transfer keeps the person in custody. A minimum release date may change. Discharge or supervision handoff is the release event that needs ADOC, ABPP, and court confirmation. The page should be updated when ADOC publishes a dedicated operational facility page with confirmed public contact details.