Bledsoe County Correctional Complex Records

BCCX State Prison Release Paths

Bledsoe County Correctional Complex is operated by the Tennessee Department of Correction. It is not the Bledsoe County Jail. People at BCCX are state prisoners or admissions being diagnosed and classified for TDOC. A true community departure can occur through parole, sentence expiration, another authorized discharge, or a move into a TDOC community-supervision status. Parole is conditional Board-authorized community release before sentence expiration. Discharge is the later point when the sentence or supervision obligation ends.

Other departures keep the person confined. Transfer to another TDOC prison is common after diagnostic intake. Delivery to another county, federal authority, or another sovereign can also end the BCCX location entry while custody continues. A detainer is an outside request to hold or receive the person. Read current status, location, sentence, hearing, and release fields together before calling any move a release.

Confirm a BCCX Release

The TDOC Felony Offender Information Lookup, or FOIL, is the official public first step. It covers felony offenders currently or formerly in TDOC custody or supervision. Search by name, TDOC or TOMIS ID, or state ID. Name searches can use first name, race, and aliases to narrow results. Complete the case-sensitive CAPTCHA, open the correct person, and compare identifiers, age or descriptors, offense, sentence, and location. A name match alone is not enough.

1. Search FOIL and match the person with more than a name.
2. Read status and location together to see whether TDOC confinement remains active.
3. Check release information, sentence data, and the record’s source date.
4. If parole appears, obtain the final Board decision and confirm that release conditions were completed.
5. For an exact date, request TDOC Sentence Information or archived release and discharge records.

Incarcerated status with another TDOC location points to transfer. Parole or probation can support community supervision, while inactive often suggests no active TDOC custody or supervision. None of those words should be isolated from the release fields. A future Release Eligibility Date, hearing date, recommendation, or grant is not proof of physical departure.

BCCX Release Record Sources

FOIL is a public display, not the last word on an exact calculation. The TDOC Sentence Information channel is the official inquiry route for a state prisoner. It can clarify the sentence and dates when a public record is ambiguous. A person serving a state felony term can also be physically housed in a county jail, so TDOC provides a separate County Jail > Sentence Information choice. For a person at BCCX, use the state-prison option.

For historical proof, use the TDOC archived record request or the state public-records portal. A focused request should give the full name, TDOC number, date of birth, contact details, and a precise description. Ask for final custody status, actual release or discharge date and type, sentence-expiration documentation, and any releasable offender photograph needed for identity. TDOC says not to send payment in advance; Records Management will advise if archive charges apply.

Note: Record the “as of” date because credits, judgments, detainers, and parole decisions can alter a prior sentence calculation.

BCCX Release Date Terms

Tennessee’s Release Eligibility Date, or RED, is the earliest statutory point when an eligible person may be considered for parole. It is not an appointment to leave BCCX. TDOC calculates eligibility under the controlling offense, offense date, judgment, sentence structure, and statute. The Board then considers parole. Even a grant may await conditions and an approved release plan, and a pre-parole rescission can end the grant before departure.

Release Eligibility Date

The earliest point at which parole consideration may be allowed.

Hearing date

The scheduled date for a Board proceeding, subject to change.

Sentence expiration

The calculated end of the prison sentence under governing law and credits.

Actual release date

The date physical custody ended or community status began.

Discharge date

The later end of sentence or supervision obligations.

There is no universal Tennessee rule that every prisoner serves 85 percent. Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-501 is offense-, date-, and sentence-specific. Some older provisions use an 85-percent floor or limit credit reduction, while enumerated offenses under later truth-in-sentencing changes may require 100 percent. Credits may also be earned or lost. A disciplinary sanction that exceeds available credits can extend RED by the unmet amount.

BCCX History Shapes Release Searches

BCCX opened in 2012 and consists of three sites. Site 1 is the statewide diagnostic point for all male TDOC admissions. Site 2 incorporates the former Southeast Tennessee State Regional Correctional Facility and has a 152-bed annex. Site 3, also called Unit 28, houses about 196 women. The complex houses people from minimum through maximum custody.

The official BCCX facility page reports an operating capacity of 2,265 and more than 4,500 average annual intakes. That high intake count reflects a statewide function, not thousands of Bledsoe County arrests or releases. A “Bledsoe inmate” result may describe a person passing through diagnostic classification before assignment elsewhere.

The official page also provides the clearest visual statement of BCCX’s prison and diagnostic role. Review that source page before interpreting a location result.

The captured page supports treating BCCX as a statewide TDOC prison rather than a local Bledsoe County detention roster.

BCCX Parole Is Not Departure

The Tennessee Board of Parole’s hearing schedule can show that a proceeding is planned at BCCX. Schedules update each Monday, or Tuesday after a Monday holiday, and may change. A hearing officer makes a nonbinding recommendation. Board members may adopt, change, or reject it. The process also includes grant, revocation, rescission, time-setting, custodial, and appeal matters, so a hearing entry cannot be reduced to a simple release result.

A final Board grant still can precede release-plan approval and other conditions. Confirm the sequence: TDOC calculates eligibility, the Board holds its process, the final decision is entered, conditions and the plan are approved, physical release occurs, and TDOC supervision begins. The Board public-records process is the fallback for the final vote, decision, disposition, and date when no live results database supplies them.

Does a BCCX hearing prove a Bledsoe County case? No. The docket is tied to the institution. Because BCCX receives people statewide, the conviction and home county may be elsewhere.

BCCX Release Checkout Records

TDOC release policy supplies context for the last stage of a true BCCX departure. State-prison processing addresses identity documents, personal property, release clothing, trust funds, and transportation. These are TDOC procedures. They do not describe a release from the county jail. When the question is whether a person physically completed BCCX checkout, ask Records Management for the releasable records that show the actual release date, release type, and final custody status rather than relying on a projected date or hearing entry.

Destination matters here too. A TDOC movement record can separate release to approved community placement from transport to another prison or delivery to another authority. Parole normally begins with supervision, so FOIL and the District 30 community-supervision record can corroborate that community status after departure. A sentence-expiration release may have a different supervision result. The exact judgment, sentence, and release type control.

If identity paperwork, funds, or property are at issue, direct the question to BCCX and TDOC under the current policy. Do not assume that the presence or absence of one item proves release. The final custody and movement records remain central. Likewise, do not transfer county retention rules to the prison. The permanent Bledsoe County jail property receipt is a sheriff record, while BCCX checkout documentation is maintained under state policy.

Note: State release procedures and county jail procedures come from different custodians and should never be merged in one records request.

BCCX Release Contact

Facility staff can address site-specific questions, but the central TDOC channels are better for sentence computation and archived proof. Give the person’s name and TDOC number. Ask whether a departure was a transfer or an actual release, and direct a formal request to Records Management when exact documentation is needed. Do not use Bledsoe County Jail records for a BCCX state-prison discharge.

The Bledsoe County released inmate search compares county, state, court, VINE, and federal records when the original custodian is uncertain. For BCCX, keep the inquiry with TDOC unless the release document names another receiving authority.