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Federal Releases and Plaquemines Parish

No Bureau of Prisons institution was identified in Plaquemines Parish’s official facility research. The Federal Bureau of Prisons System belongs in the parish map because a federal hold, writ, or transfer can move someone out of PPSO custody without returning that person to the community. The local jail record must identify the federal agency or destination before the federal path is treated as relevant.

A BOP release result speaks only to BOP custody. It can show that federal prison custody ended on a stated date, but it does not establish where the person went next. State or local custody, immigration custody, and federal supervised release remain separate questions. A past release date also does not explain the sentence, court conditions, or whether another case continued.

Search Federal BOP Release Records

The official BOP Inmate Locator accepts a federal register number or another supported federal identifier. A name search is also available, with optional age, race, and sex fields to narrow results. An identifier is the safer route when names are common or spellings have changed.

1. Confirm that PPSO or the federal case identifies a BOP or federal custody path. A parish roster gap alone is not enough.
2. Search by BOP register number or another supported federal number when known. Otherwise enter the full legal name and use optional narrowing fields.
3. Compare the result’s name, register number, age, race, and sex with known case facts. Do not choose a row from the name alone.
4. Record the exact custody label, release date, and location shown. Save the access date because locator content can change.
5. Check the federal court case for sentence, release order, and any supervised-release term. Return to PPSO records for the parish transfer event.

The Plaquemines Parish released inmates search supplies the local record path when the federal trigger is unclear. Keep the parish event and federal event as two dated records.

Note: A federal register number links the search to one BOP record and reduces the risk of joining two people who share a name.

Federal BOP Release Search Fields

The locator’s fields answer a narrow federal custody question. They should be copied as displayed and then matched to the court and parish records. The BOP’s public explanation says records include people released from federal custody after 1982. Older federal records route to the National Archives rather than the modern locator.

A result with a past date and no current facility can support that BOP custody ended on that date. It says nothing by itself about a later jail stay, ICE custody, Louisiana custody, or the person’s destination. The federal court docket remains the source for the sentence and supervision terms.

Read Federal BOP Release Status

“Released” with a date is a direct BOP custody result. “Not in BOP custody” is broader. It may fit a person who has not yet entered a BOP institution, a person held pretrial through USMS, someone transferred, someone outside the locator’s record scope, or a person whose BOP custody ended. It should not be rewritten as a community release without a supporting record.

The distinction is especially important for Plaquemines Parish. A federal defendant can be held in a contracted local facility under U.S. Marshals authority and lack a normal sentenced-prison record. PPSO may show a transfer while BOP shows no current custody. Those facts can both be true because the agencies describe different parts of the custody path.

Does “Not in BOP custody” mean free? No. Confirm the federal court status, USMS role, and any other receiving agency before describing the outcome.

Plaquemines Parish Federal Transfers

A person can leave the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office Detention Center because PPSO transferred custody to USMS or another federal authority. That event ends the parish jail stay but is not a community release. Ask PPSO Intake and Booking for clarification and use a written request for the existing booking sheet, release or transfer entry, authority, date and time, and destination.

PPSO’s documented public-record route is the online written request form. Describe the named custody episode and ask for existing records. Do not ask the Sheriff’s Office to create a federal narrative. The parish record should supply the local handoff, while the federal agency or court supplies what occurred afterward.

If the transfer destination is missing, request that field specifically. The receiving agency determines the next locator. BOP is appropriate for a sentenced prisoner delivered to its custody. USMS and the federal court are more useful for a pretrial defendant.

Federal Court and USMS Records

The U.S. Marshals Service does not offer a public name locator comparable to BOP’s. A federal pretrial defendant may remain in USMS custody at a contract facility and never appear as a current BOP prisoner. The federal court order or docket is therefore the practical public source for pretrial release, detention, acquittal, commitment, and sentencing.

Use the case number from court papers or the PPSO transfer record when possible. Read the actual order and docket entry rather than inferring an outcome from the person’s absence. A targeted USMS Freedom of Information Act request is the documentary fallback, subject to federal exemptions. Ask for the receiving institution when PPSO records only a USMS transfer.

For a sentenced person later delivered to BOP, join the court judgment to the locator record by federal identifier. The judgment explains the sentence. The locator reports the BOP custody status and date.

Note: USMS custody and BOP custody are related federal paths, but one agency’s missing result does not settle the other agency’s status.

Federal Release Versus Supervision

Federal supervised release is a court-ordered period that can begin after imprisonment. It is not BOP incarceration, and it is not the same as a new jail term. A BOP release date can coexist with an active supervised-release term. The federal judgment, release conditions, and later court docket provide that context.

Do not use a BOP “Released” row as proof that the full federal sentence and all conditions ended. Likewise, do not assume that supervision places the person in Plaquemines Parish. The supervising district and approved location come from federal court and supervision records, not from the BOP locator’s release date.

BOP release

The end of the BOP custody period shown by the federal locator.

Supervised release

A federal court-ordered term in the community following imprisonment.

USMS transfer

A custody handoff involving the U.S. Marshals Service, often before or around federal court proceedings.

Full sentence completion

A conclusion that requires the court and custody records, not one locator label.

Federal Release Records and Contacts

There is no local BOP institution address or facility telephone to publish for Plaquemines Parish. Use the national locator for the federal prison record and PPSO for the local transfer. Older BOP custody records outside the locator’s post-1982 public scope route through the National Archives process described by BOP.

Use each contact for the record it owns. PPSO can document the parish departure or transfer. BOP can report its federal custody record. The federal court explains the judicial outcome and supervised-release terms.

Confirm Federal Release Destinations

The strongest Plaquemines Parish federal check uses a dated sequence: PPSO custody entry, PPSO transfer or release entry, federal court action, BOP custody record where applicable, and any later supervision record. Keep the exact agency labels. Do not collapse a USMS transfer, BOP release, or supervised release into one event.

If dates conflict, retain both and ask the office that created each record. The parish jail’s door time can differ from a federal custody date. A court order can precede physical movement. Database updates can follow the underlying action. Recording those differences produces a more accurate result than choosing one date without context.

The BOP image below comes from the official federal locator.

The captured locator demonstrates the correct federal search channel and a released-result format, not proof of a local Plaquemines Parish release.