Staton Correctional Facility Records

Releases from Staton Correctional Facility

ADOC lists Staton Correctional Facility at 2690 Marion Spillway Road, Elmore, AL 36025, with phone 334-567-2221. The facility opened in June 1978 and is described as being off Highway 143 approximately 12 miles west of Wetumpka. ADOC also identifies Staton as providing emergency medical care and a medical observation unit for Elmore and Frank Lee facilities.

That medical-observation role makes Staton different from a simple final-release facility. A person may be at Staton temporarily for observation, treatment, classification, or movement between ADOC facilities. A transfer from Staton to Elmore Correctional Facility, Frank Lee, another prison, or a medical unit is not a release to the community. Confirm the facility field, custody status, parole status, and release or transfer reason before treating the person as released.

How to Confirm a Staton Release

The ADOC inmate search is the online starting point only while the person may still be incarcerated. ADOC states that the public database contains currently incarcerated inmates and does not provide historical data online. For Staton, that means disappearance from the search can suggest release, transfer, restricted record status, or a name mismatch. It should lead to records confirmation, not a final conclusion.

1. Search ADOC by AIS number if known.
2. Compare name, suffix, sex, facility, commit county, case number, sentence date, custody level, and parole status.
3. Record the minimum release date and parole consideration date if the person is still listed.
4. If the person no longer appears, contact ADOC public records for release or discharge confirmation.
5. Check ABPP if release involved parole, probation, mandatory release, or post-release supervision in Elmore County.
6. Use the sentencing court case to verify the sentence, jail credit, disposition, and any later order that changed release timing.

The county jail roster is not the right tool for a Staton release unless the person was separately booked into Elmore County Jail. For the cross-system decision path, start at Elmore County released inmates and separate county jail, ADOC, ABPP, and federal custody.

Staton Records and Contact

For a written release record, ask for public release or discharge data connected to the AIS number, name, date of birth if known, facility, commit county, case number, sentence date, minimum release date, release date, release type, and any public supervision handoff. The ADOC public-record request form identifies a non-refundable $20 processing fee.

About Staton Correctional Facility

Staton is part of Elmore County's state-corrections footprint along with Elmore Correctional Facility, Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Frank Lee Community-Based Facility, and the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex. Elmore County release research is therefore more state-prison-heavy than many counties. The phrase "released in Elmore County" can refer to a county detainee leaving the sheriff's jail or a state prisoner leaving an ADOC facility physically located in the county.

The ADOC Staton Correctional Facility page is the source shown below, and it helps distinguish medical-observation placement from final release.

Medical Observation and Transfers

Because ADOC identifies Staton as a medical observation support point for Elmore and Frank Lee, a custody record tied to Staton may reflect treatment or temporary placement rather than the last institution before community release. If relatives hear that a person "left Staton," the next question should be whether the person discharged, paroled, returned to another ADOC facility, moved to a hospital context, or entered ABPP supervision.

Alabama VNS may provide custody-change notifications for registered users when the person is an ADOC-sentenced offender. It should not be used as a replacement for ADOC records or the sentencing court, and it is not the right first source for a pretrial Elmore County Jail detainee.

Fields to Reconcile

For Staton release work, reconcile AIS number, commit county, case number, offense, sentence date, jail credit, total term, custody level, good time received or revoked, minimum release date, parole consideration date, parole status, and current facility. These fields help distinguish a real discharge from a transfer or data issue. Court records remain important because the circuit clerk prepares jail credit and the sentencing court record explains the sentence and later orders.

Staton Request Checklist

A records request for a Staton release should be narrower than a general request for an inmate file. Ask for public release or discharge information for the named person and give ADOC the AIS number if known. If the AIS number is not known, include the full name, date of birth if available, approximate custody years, commit county, case number, and the reason Staton is believed to be involved. The goal is to confirm the release event or transfer path, not to obtain confidential medical or security records.

Because Staton has a medical observation role for Elmore and Frank Lee, avoid requesting or publishing medical details unless a separate authorized medical-record process applies. A public released-inmate page should focus on custody status, release date, release type, facility, transfer, supervision handoff, and court identifiers. If the person was moved from Staton for observation and then returned to another ADOC facility, the release question remains unresolved until a later discharge, parole, mandatory-release, or transfer record is found.

Staton in the Local Release Map

Staton sits inside an Elmore County corrections map that includes the county jail, multiple ADOC facilities, and a local ABPP office. That means a single person can have several Elmore-related records without all of them being release records. The county jail may show a transfer to ADOC. ADOC may later show Staton as the current facility. ABPP may later show supervision after release. The court may explain the sentence and jail credit. Each record answers a different custody question.

When reviewing a Staton result, preserve that sequence. If the person was released from the county jail to ADOC, the jail release record is only the local handoff. If the person later moved from Staton to Elmore Correctional Facility or Frank Lee, the Staton event is a transfer. If ADOC records show a discharge or ABPP confirms supervision, then the state release path has a stronger basis.