Clarion Corrections Release Paths
Clarion County Corrections is the county’s controlling local custodial facility. A person may leave after bail is posted, charges are dismissed, a court credits the sentence as time served, a county term ends, or another release order takes effect. Those events can produce a physical discharge to the community. County probation, bail supervision, electronic monitoring, and work release place a person outside a standard jail cell while legal controls continue.
Other movements do not mean freedom. Clarion County Corrections may transfer a person to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections after a state sentence, to another county, to federal custody, to treatment, or to another authority. A hospital trip or court movement can also explain a temporary absence. The county record should identify a destination when staff recorded an agency transfer. Death ends custody but must never be described as a release.
| Movement | What it means | Best confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Community discharge | The county hold ended and no receiving custodial agency took the person | Jail release record and court docket |
| Supervised placement | The person is outside jail but subject to probation, parole, bail, or program rules | Supervising office and docket |
| Agency transfer | Clarion custody ended while another authority continued custody | Movement record and receiving locator |
Confirm a Clarion Corrections Release
No official Clarion County live roster, booking log, or recent-release feed was found. A missing name on an unofficial page cannot prove that a person was discharged. Call the jail and phrase the question precisely: does the person remain at the facility, was the person physically released, or did another agency receive the person? Supply the exact name and a known booking or commitment date range.
The Clarion County released-inmate search and record path brings the county, court, notification, and state branches together. For a direct check, use this order:
- Call Clarion County Corrections at 814-226-9615 and ask about custody, discharge, or transfer.
- Search Pennsylvania UJS dockets in both Magisterial District and Common Pleas court for bail, disposition, sentence, or a later order.
- Review a PA SAVIN alert, if registration occurred before the event, and distinguish a release alert from a move or transfer.
- Search PA DOC only when a state commitment is plausible. A county bail release will not ordinarily create a DOC inmate result.
- Request the existing county movement or release record when written proof is needed.
A court order can authorize release before jail staff finish warrants, detainers, identity checks, property, and discharge processing.
Clarion Release Records and Contact
The official Clarion County Corrections page identifies the jail and its contact information. It does not publish office hours for historical-release inquiries, a roster, or a named release archive. Call before visiting and do not assume the main line provides historical records at all times.
Clarion County Corrections
309 Amsler Drive, Suite 2
Shippenville, PA 16254
Phone: 814-226-9615
Fax: 814-226-1152
Warden Sherry Yates: extension 1135
Email: syates@clarioncounty.gov
The county page is shown below so the official identity and navigation can be recognized before a request is made.
View the source page for Clarion County Corrections.
The navigation covers accounts, property, victim notification, mail, and visits, but it provides no released-person lookup.
Request a Clarion Release Record
Historical proof usually requires a focused request under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law. Send the request to Clarion County’s Open Records Officer by email, mail, fax, or in person. Ask for an existing record instead of asking staff to answer a question or create a new list. Identify the person by full name, aliases, date of birth if known, and a narrow booking or commitment range.
A useful description requests the existing commitment, movement, release, or discharge record and asks for any maintained field showing the booking identifier, admission date, physical release date and time, release type, destination, and releasable booking photograph. Those are requested items, not a promise that every field exists or must be disclosed. Ask for electronic delivery and a cost estimate.
Clarion County Open Records
Shelly Parkes, Open Records Officer
Administrative Building
330 Main Street
Clarion, PA 16214
Phone: 814-226-4000 ext. 1385
Fax: 814-297-1503
Email: openrecords@co.clarion.pa.us
The county states that it responds within five business days by granting, partly granting, denying, or invoking a lawful extension. Exempt or protected content may be withheld or redacted. Use the Clarion County Open Records instructions and official request form. Requesters may ask for the legal basis and use the state appeal route when appropriate.
Clarion Release Records Versus Dockets
A jail record and a court docket answer related but different questions. The jail record documents physical custody movement. The docket records judicial authority, such as bail, dismissal, a sentence, time served, probation, remand, or a later correction. A bail entry may occur before a separate detainer is cleared. A sentence may also require an official credit calculation before discharge.
Search the Pennsylvania UJS Case Information portal in both relevant court levels. Clarion County centralized preliminary hearings at 309 Amsler Avenue, Suite 1, next to Corrections in Suite 2, but physical proximity does not merge the records. The MDJ docket tracks the preliminary layer, Common Pleas tracks the later criminal case, and Corrections tracks the actual movement.
Read a docket from oldest to newest. The preliminary record may show arraignment, bail, commitment, or a case sent forward. Common Pleas entries may then show formal charges, plea or trial results, a sentence, custody credit, probation, and later revocation or correction orders. Referenced documents are not always available for download. When the entry title alone is too vague, request the filed bail, sentencing, release, or disposition order from the Clarion County Clerk of Courts. Even that order should be paired with the jail movement record when the exact discharge time or receiving authority matters.
- Release
- The custodial agency ends its hold, which may lead to the community or another authority.
- Transfer
- One agency ends custody because another agency receives the person.
- Discharge
- A sentence or supervision layer ends, not merely a move from one building.
- Detainer
- A hold from another case or authority that can prevent community release.
Clarion Corrections Facility Facts
The county institution holds people awaiting arraignment, trial, sentencing, or transport as well as people serving sentences. Pennsylvania’s 2026 county prison inspection schedule names Sherry Yates as warden, places the jail in the Western inspection region, and lists a capacity of 126 beds. PA DOC does not operate county prisons, so the statewide locator is not the first source for an ordinary Clarion County jail case.
Monthly Prison Board records illustrate why a live snapshot would be incomplete even if one existed. The February 2025 report lists 39 commitments and 43 releases for its reporting period, while the May report lists 44 commitments and 45 releases. These are aggregate movements, not a name index. They do not say which kind of release occurred, whether one person moved more than once, or where any named person went. Use them only as dated context for jail turnover.
Facility practices such as exact release times, the exit door, weekend processing, property-return timing, and public photo rules were not published. Confirm those operational details directly instead of relying on a general assumption.
Where Old Clarion Jail Records Live
The Shippenville institution replaced Clarion’s castle-like nineteenth-century jail in 1995. A dated Pennsylvania Counties prison profile describes a 70-bed opening and later double-bunking, while current state material lists 126 beds. This facility history is more than local color. It explains why an old Clarion County release may have no connection to the modern corrections web page.
Older custody material may remain with the county record custodian rather than in a current portal. Use the date of confinement to help the Open Records Officer locate the proper series, and use the court docket or Clerk of Courts copy to explain the judicial event. Include any known alias, booking span, or docket number so staff can distinguish people with similar names. A request for a broad span may be harder to locate and may increase copying costs, while a narrow range directs staff to the likely record series. If the custody predates the current facility, say that plainly in the request. Ask whether responsive material is held by Corrections, the county records custodian, or another county office, and keep the written response with the court record.
The historic jail is a landmark, not an active inmate-search destination. A photo or address for that property should never be used to direct a current custody inquiry.
Note: Source dates should remain attached to historical capacity figures because they describe different stages of the facility’s operation.