Macon County Jail Releases
Macon County Jail is the primary county jail named in the facility map, but a Macon County release search now begins with one question: where was the person held at the time custody ended? The Alabama Secretary of State listing identifies Sheriff Andre Brunson and gives the sheriff office at 246 County Road 10 in Tuskegee. The Macon County Commission sheriff page lists law-enforcement contacts, but the research did not verify an official Macon County online inmate roster, recent-release list, or sheriff app release feed.
That absence does not mean there is no release record. Alabama Code Section 36-22-8 requires the sheriff to keep a jail prisoner book for people received into the county jail. The record is subject to public inspection during office hours and must include the order and date of commitment and the order and date of release. For a person released from Macon County Jail, that prisoner book is the core local record. It should be paired with the court docket when the release came from a bond order, dismissal, sentence to time served, probation order, warrant recall, or transfer order.
| Release event | Primary confirmation source | What to verify next |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or citation release | Macon sheriff prisoner book | Court docket and next court date |
| Court order or time served | Sheriff release order/date | Disposition, sentence, or probation order |
| Transfer to host jail | Macon sheriff plus host jail | Physical custody location |
| Transfer to ADOC | Court commitment and ADOC search | AIS number and state release path |
Macon County Jail Closure Transfers
The distinctive facility issue is the jail-closure reporting from June 2025. WSFA reported that Sheriff Andre Brunson said the Macon County Jail was uninhabitable, had been closed for several weeks, and that all 42 inmates had been moved to Mobile and Shelby county jails. Fox10 later reported that about 17 were at Mobile County Metro Jail and others were at Shelby County Jail. No later official reopening notice was found in the research file.
For release work, this changes the meaning of a missing roster result. A person may be out of Macon County's building because the building was closed, not because the person was released to the community. A Macon County legal hold can travel with the person to Mobile, Shelby, ADOC, or another holding path. If the person disappeared from a host jail page, the next step is to ask whether that was a release, a transfer, a court order, a data update, or a movement into a state or federal system.
The June 2025 reporting is also why the Macon County Jail page must name the host jails directly. Mobile County Metro Jail can confirm physical custody when the person was held there for Macon County. Shelby County Jail has a release-in-the-last-thirty-days tab that may help when a Macon detainee was hosted there. Macon County records still matter because the underlying charge, commitment authority, and court order remain Macon records.
The June 2025 closure report is the clearest public visual source for this custody-location issue.
The image supports the practical rule for Macon County Jail releases: confirm the legal release record and the physical custody site before treating a roster absence as final.
Confirm Macon Jail Release
A Macon County Jail release confirmation should be narrow and specific. Use the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, arresting agency, court case number if available, and any information showing whether the person was transferred after the closure. Ask for the Section 36-22-8 prisoner record, including the charge, commitment order/date, release order/date, and release reason. If the sheriff's office says the person was held elsewhere, write down the host facility and the date of movement.
- Check whether the person was held under Macon County, Mobile safekeeping, Shelby safekeeping, ADOC, or a municipal arrest path.
- Request the Macon County sheriff prisoner-book entry for the named person and date range.
- Check Mobile or Shelby if the person was physically housed at a host jail after the closure.
- Use Macon County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt / Just One Look for the court order behind the release.
- Use ADOC inmate search only if the person was committed to state prison.
- Use VINELink Release Check for custody-status alerts, then verify the formal record.
A transfer is not the same as a release. A Macon County inmate moved to Mobile, Shelby, ADOC, ICE, or federal custody is still in a custody chain until the receiving system confirms release or discharge.
Macon Jail Records Contact
The Macon County Jail contact path comes from the sheriff listing and county sheriff page. The state listing is the cleaner official source for the elected sheriff office. Use it for the first request, then route to the jail, court, host jail, or ADOC based on the answer. If the county public-records PDF path is unavailable, the sheriff contact and county contact page are still valid starting points for a written request.
Macon County Sheriff's Office
246 County Road 10
Tuskegee, AL 36083-4804
Phone: (334) 724-0669
Records to request: Section 36-22-8 prisoner book entry, release order/date, commitment order/date, charge, and transfer information.
For court facts, use the Macon County Circuit Clerk at the Macon County Courthouse, 101 Rosa Parks Plaza, Tuskegee, AL 36083, phone (334) 724-2614. The clerk is the record keeper for District and Circuit Court proceedings. Court records are often the only way to know whether a jail release was based on bond, dismissal, sentence completion, probation, revocation disposition, or a new commitment.
Macon Jail Custody Checks
Macon County release research should separate current custody from release history. A current roster, where one exists, answers whether a person is in a facility now. The sheriff prisoner book answers whether Macon County received the person and what order/date ended that jail custody. Court records explain why the order existed. ADOC and ABPP records explain the state-prison or supervision phase. VINE can send notice of a status change, but it is not the formal release order.
- Released
- The person left a specific custody site by order, bond, sentence completion, discharge, or another listed release reason.
- Transferred
- The person left one facility but entered another custody system, such as a host jail, ADOC, ICE, or federal custody.
- Discharged
- The sentence or custody term ended under the responsible agency's record.
- Parole or probation
- The person is out of jail or prison but remains supervised by ABPP or under a court probation order.
For a named-person search that spans all systems, start at Macon County released inmates and then move to the facility page that matches the last known custody site. For release timing, the Inmate Release Date page is the state and jail computation route. For recent host-jail movement, use Released Last 24 Hours and Released Last 72 Hours with the Macon no-feed limits in mind.