Perry Scheduled and Actual Release Dates
A scheduled date is a calculation or a conditional decision. An actual release is the event recorded when a person leaves a specific custody setting. Those facts can differ. A Perry County court may authorize release before jail staff finish hold checks, property processing, and the physical exit. A Missouri sentence record may list a minimum date while the person remains in an institution because another sentence, a detainer, required programming, or a Parole Board decision still controls.
Pretrial detention is different. A person held at the Perry County Sheriff’s Office Jail before judgment has no sentence term from which to calculate a prison release date. Bond, dismissal, plea, trial, a warrant, or a hold may decide what happens next. A sentenced county detainee has a judgment to review, but the jail must still confirm how that judgment and any other hold affect the exit.
Scheduled versus actual: A minimum, maximum, conditional, or presumptive date is not proof that Perry County or MODOC completed the physical release.
Find a Perry Inmate Release Date
Begin with the last known custody setting. The Perry County Sheriff is closest to a county-jail exit. The 32nd Judicial Circuit is closest to the judgment, bond order, or amended sentence. MODOC owns state sentence calculations and prison-to-supervision records. Using the wrong channel can turn a correct date into a false conclusion.
- Match the person by full name and date of birth. Add a booking, case, or DOC number when available.
- For a Perry County jail sentence or pretrial case, review Missouri Case.net and select the 32nd Judicial Circuit.
- Call Perry County jail staff at 573-547-4071 for the proper records route. Ask whether a date is court-ordered, calculated, or already recorded as an exit.
- For an active state offender, search the MODOC Offender Search, then direct a date question to the institutional caseworker.
- If the person is discharged and absent from the live state search, request actual release or discharge history through the MODOC Sunshine Law channel.
The broader Perry County released-inmate search paths can help when the last custody setting is unclear. A county transfer to MODOC, another jail, federal custody, or immigration custody ends Perry County custody without placing the person in the community.
Note: A court order supplies the legal basis, while the jail event is better evidence of the time physical release finished.
Missouri Release Date Fields for Perry
Missouri uses several precise labels. The live MODOC search covers active offenders, including some people in prison and some under community supervision. It expressly excludes discharged offenders. The historical data documentation is therefore important when a person no longer appears in the live search.
| Missouri term or field | Meaning and limit |
|---|---|
$PC |
Sentence-I Minimum Release Date, a calculated minimum tied to the active sentence, not an actual exit event. |
$PD |
Sentence Maximum Release Date, which reflects full expiration of the court-set term. |
$SCF |
Sentence-completed flag. A value of Y marks a completed sentence in the historical data. |
$FOI |
Field or institution assignment, useful for separating incarceration from community supervision. |
| Presumptive parole date | A tentative Board-set date that depends on conduct, programs, sentence accuracy, and an acceptable release plan. |
The historical file also uses special noncalendar values in some cases. Values such as 99999999, 88888888, and 66666666 must not be converted into invented dates. Ask MODOC what the displayed field means for the named record.
The MODOC glossary defines minimum release, maximum release, conditional release, and presumptive parole release. The official page below shows the state vocabulary used to frame a Perry County date inquiry.
These labels identify stages of a Missouri sentence. None should be reported as the actual Perry County exit unless the responsible agency confirms that event.
Perry Release Dates Under Section 558.011
Missouri Revised Statutes section 558.011 divides many prison terms into a prison portion and a conditional-release portion. Conditional release is supervised time and is not the same as final discharge. For a term of nine years or less, the conditional-release portion is generally the last one-third. For more than nine through fifteen years, it is generally the last three years. For a term above fifteen years, it is generally the last five years.
Those are statutory starting points, not a calculator for every Perry County case. Offense-specific restrictions, sentence structure, Board action, and other law can alter the result. Consecutive terms can also change the controlling calculation. The judgment and MODOC sentence record must be read together before a minimum date is described.
Conditional release means the person serves the remaining part under supervision. MODOC retains legal custody during that stage. Final discharge comes later, when the sentence and supervision relationship ends. That distinction explains why a person outside prison can remain in the active MODOC search.
Perry Dangerous-Felony Minimum Release Terms
Missouri has no universal rule that every prisoner must serve 85 percent. The narrow provision appears in section 558.019. Subsection 3 applies to a dangerous felony as defined by section 556.061 and requires 85 percent of the imposed term, or confinement until age 70 after at least 40 percent, whichever occurs first. The statute treats life as thirty years and an aggregate term above seventy-five years as seventy-five for this calculation.
Other parts of section 558.019 can impose 40, 50, or 80 percent minimum terms for specified non-dangerous felony cases, depending on prior prison commitments and statutory date or conviction conditions. Those rules should never be attached to a Perry County inmate based only on a charge label or a web summary. The current statute, judgment, offense definition, and sentence history are the source set.
Note: Missouri minimum-term percentages apply to defined cases, not to every county jail or state prison sentence.
Why Perry Inmate Release Dates Change
A calculated date can move when the legal record, custody facts, or release conditions change. The table names documented categories, but it cannot identify which one applies to a person. That answer belongs with the Perry County jail, the court, the MODOC caseworker, or the Parole Board.
| Change factor | Possible effect on the date |
|---|---|
| Credit correction | Recalculated jail-time credit or noncredit time can move a minimum or maximum date. |
| Amended judgment | A corrected term or a change between concurrent and consecutive sentences can alter the calculation. |
| Detainer or hold | Another agency may take custody even when the current sentence reaches a release point. |
| Conduct or program | Institutional conduct, required-program completion, or noncredit time can affect a tentative date. |
| Parole Board action | The Board may set, deny, revise, or rescind a presumptive date under its authority. |
| Release plan | An unacceptable plan can prevent a presumptive parole release from becoming an actual release. |
Perry Release Date and Parole Decisions
A parole guideline is not a calendar promise. The Missouri Parole Board says its guidelines do not guarantee release and may support a date below or above the guideline. Under section 217.690, nothing requires the Board to release a person. A hearing may produce a presumptive date, a denial with a later hearing, or release at a conditional or maximum date.
Even a presumptive date can depend on good conduct, required programming, sentence-time accuracy, and an acceptable release plan. A new detainer may change the next custody destination. For an individualized date, use the institutional parole officer or caseworker rather than a general Board schedule.
Missouri MOVANS may provide a scheduled-release or parole-hearing notice for a matching record, but it is not the sentence calculator or the historical archive. The VINELink Release Check explains the current local-jail and MODOC registration split.
Perry Jail Release Date Limits
No Perry County good-time policy, weekend-release rule, Friday-release practice, or holiday-adjustment rule was verified. Another Missouri county’s policy cannot fill that gap. For a local sentence, ask the Perry County Sheriff’s Office Jail, operated under Sheriff Jason Klaus, how it applies the judgment and whether any other hold controls. Review the court docket for amendments, but do not use the docket timestamp as the physical-exit time.
The same caution applies when a name disappears from county information. Transfer to MODOC, another county, federal authorities, or another agency is an exit from Perry custody, not a community release. Request the recorded disposition and destination if that field is open. The Sheriff’s Office is at 400 W. St. Joseph St., Suite 3, Perryville, MO 63775, with administration at 573-547-4576 and jail questions at 573-547-4071.
Note: Ask about the named judgment and holds; do not assume a local weekend or good-time practice that Perry County has not published.
Earned Compliance Credit After Perry Release
Earned Compliance Credit belongs after prison release, in the community-supervision stage. Under section 217.703, an eligible person may receive thirty days of credit toward the supervision term for a full compliant calendar month, subject to exclusions and statutory minimums. The credit can advance final discharge from eligible probation, parole, or conditional release.
It does not move the prison-door release date. It is not institutional good time. Questions about an individual calculation belong with the supervising officer and the MODOC early-discharge process. Keeping that credit separate prevents a post-release supervision rule from being used to predict an earlier prison exit.
Confirm a Perry Inmate Release Date
Confirmation means matching the date to the event. For the Perry jail, request the booking and custody-event history, recorded release date and time, release type, and transfer destination when public. For MODOC, ask for the actual custody-release or final-discharge event and distinguish it from $PC, $PD, parole, and conditional release. Include the full name, date of birth, DOC or booking number, and a narrow date range.
The MODOC contact route directs specific status questions, while OD.SunshineRequest@doc.mo.gov handles available department records. A current caseworker can explain an active calculation. Historical data or a records response is needed after final discharge because the live search excludes discharged offenders.
A useful state request asks MODOC to separate five events: the calculated minimum date, calculated maximum date, parole or conditional-release date, actual departure from an institution, and final discharge from supervision. It should also seek enough assignment history to distinguish an institution from a field placement. This prevents a prison-to-parole move from being called final discharge and prevents a completed sentence flag from being treated as the time someone walked out of a Perry County facility.
For a local matter, pair the Sheriff response with the Perry County judgment. If the dates do not match, put each event in order. A court may act first, jail staff may complete release checks later, and a receiving agency may record admission after the transfer. Each date can be accurate while answering a different question. Ask the source office to define any custody code or abbreviation instead of assigning a meaning from another county’s records.
Final check: Confirm the latest date with the office that owns the event and ask whether it is calculated, tentative, court-authorized, or actually completed.