Check Craven Correctional Institution Releases

Craven Correctional Release Routes

Craven Correctional Institution is operated by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. It is a male, medium-custody prison and a major reception and diagnostic center. It is not another county jail. People arriving after felony judgments may be evaluated, tested, and interviewed there before NCDAC assigns them to a longer-term facility. The county's active-bookings table has no role in tracking that state-prison episode.

A state departure can mean an NCDAC transfer, release at sentence expiration, parole in an eligible older or special case, post-release supervision, a court-ordered release, or another authorized movement. The statewide record distinguishes incarceration from supervision. A person may be physically outside prison while still listed as an active probationer, parolee, or post-release supervisee. Only the detailed service statuses and dates explain which part of the sentence remains.

Search Craven Correctional Releases

The official NCDAC Offender Public Information search is the primary online route. Search by offender number when it is known. A name search can produce several people, so compare the offender number and available descriptors before opening sentence data. Read labels exactly. An admission date is not a release date, and a change in prison location is not a discharge.

1. Open the NCDAC main offender search and select the matching person by identifiers, not name alone.
2. Review incarceration Service Status, current location, offense, sentence, admission, and any Projected Release Date.
3. Look for an Actual Release Date after the expected event. Save the precise label and date rather than paraphrasing it.
4. Open the distinct probation, parole, or post-release details. An active community-supervision status is not an active-prison status.
5. If the result is unclear or missing, use the NCDAC public-record request form and identify the offender number, date range, and requested incarceration or release fields.

The broader Craven County released inmate search explains how a county-jail stay, state commitment, court judgment, and later supervision fit together. Do not substitute VINELink for the formal state sentence record. NC SAVAN is useful for notifications, but NCDAC's own record controls state incarceration dates and status.

Craven State Release Dates

A projected date is not proof that release occurred. NCDAC defines expiration of sentence as complete service with no parole or post-release reporting, and its policy notes that the projected release date may also be called the PRD or max-out date. Other releases, including parole and post-release supervision, have different legal routes. Combined Records authorizes most releases and staff must confirm that no unaudited sentence remains before departure.

North Carolina Structured Sentencing is not a generic rule that everyone serves 85 percent. NCDAC states that a person must serve 100 percent of the court's minimum term. Earned time may move the maximum toward that minimum, but never below it. Offense date and sentence law matter because older Fair Sentencing cases and special statutes can use different rules. Credits, discipline, jail credit, a new court order, or sentence restructuring may change a projection.

Ordinary expiration releases are favored on weekdays when possible. A weekend or holiday expiration may be moved to the preceding weekday through authorized discretionary credit. A scheduled post-release-supervision release, by contrast, must occur on the statutory date even on a weekend or holiday. Those rules explain why a date can change without showing an error.

Craven Correctional Records

NCDAC is the custodian for the prison's sentence and release records. Its public records request form is the correct route when public OPI fields do not answer a precise question. The agency's request guidance says there is no fee for electronic records and copying fees cannot exceed actual cost, though a special-service charge may apply to extraordinary work. Ask for an estimate if a broad request is unavoidable.

A useful request identifies the offender by full name and NCDAC number, gives a date range, and names the exact fields sought. Those might include admission and movement history, incarceration Service Status, Projected Release Date, Actual Release Date, release type, or sentence detail. Supervision case files are confidential even when the public system displays a broad status. Do not request personal reporting instructions or private officer notes.

The official Craven Correctional Institution page shown here describes the facility's reception role, capacity, history, address, and contact.

That facility description helps explain why a move from Craven often means reassignment, while OPI supplies the person's release and sentence fields.

Craven Correctional Contact

Craven Correctional Institution is at 600 Alligator Road, Vanceboro, North Carolina 28586. Its mailing address is Post Office Box 839, Vanceboro, North Carolina 28586, and the published phone number is 252-244-3337. The facility opened in 1996 and has a capacity of 850.

The prison can answer facility questions, but formal state release facts should come from OPI or NCDAC Combined Records. Sheriff Chip Hughes and the local Craven County Sheriff's Office do not control this state sentence record. Likewise, a Craven court judgment can explain the sentence but does not replace NCDAC's later computation and actual release entry.

Craven Reception Center Transfers

Craven Correctional Institution's reception role is a key local fact. NCDAC says newly admitted men commonly spend about three to four weeks there for tests, evaluation, and interviews before assignment elsewhere. The institution processes more than 400 admissions per month. Those numbers describe admissions and transfers. They are not counts of released people and should never be reported as such.

A family member may see Craven as the current location and then find another prison on the next check. That pattern is routine for a reception center. Compare the movement and location history before drawing a conclusion. A different NCDAC location means confinement continues. An Actual Release Date accompanied by inactive incarceration is stronger evidence that prison custody ended, but supervision and another agency must still be checked.

After Craven Prison Release

Post-release supervision is a statutory period in the community after many structured prison terms. Parole is different and mainly applies to eligible older or special cases. Probation is imposed by a court and can occur without a prison release. NCDAC displays these service types separately, so an active supervision result should not be described as current incarceration.

For public office routing, consult the current NCDAC Community Supervision directory. The Craven district contact in the research is at 1904D South Glenburnie Road, New Bern, with a published phone number of 252-514-4822. Public staff can help identify the appropriate office, while detailed case notes and reporting information remain confidential. The Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission sets applicable conditions; field supervision is performed by NCDAC Community Supervision.

Craven Federal Custody Checks

NCDAC release does not establish that every form of custody ended. If a record or court file identifies a federal handoff, use the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator for sentenced federal custody. BOP explains that a past release date with no facility usually means the person left BOP custody on that date. It does not cover every United States Marshals Service pretrial movement or later state custody.

If immigration custody is possible, use ICE's detainee locator promptly. ICE can show current detainees and people released from its custody for roughly 60 days. A release from NCDAC and a later ICE release are separate events. Each should be described with its own agency, date, and source.

Craven Prison Release and ICE

The Craven sheriff's 2025 ICE 287(g) Warrant Service Officer memorandum makes immigration custody a locally grounded follow-up question, but it does not prove anything about a particular person at this state prison. If an NCDAC movement or release record identifies an immigration handoff, check ICE rather than the county active list.

ICE's public locator covers current detention and only a short period after release, roughly 60 days. Search promptly by A-number and country of birth or by exact name and country of birth. A state Actual Release Date ends the NCDAC incarceration episode. It does not, by itself, establish the end of ICE custody or a person's unrestricted return to the community.

Craven Release Record Terms

State records use precise terms. Reading each one by its agency meaning keeps a transfer from being mistaken for release.

Projected Release Date

A forward-looking sentence calculation that may change before departure.

Actual Release Date

The date NCDAC records the end of a particular incarceration episode.

Service Status

The public label indicating whether incarceration or a type of supervision is active or inactive.

Post-release supervision

Community supervision after a qualifying structured prison sentence.

Parole

Conditional release under an applicable older or special parole law.

Discharge

The end of the identified custody or supervision service, not merely a change of facility.