Check Sevier County Jail Annex Releases

Jail Annex Release Outcomes

The Sevier County Jail Annex is an adult county correctional facility operated by SCSO. A release from this building can describe several distinct events. Bond, dismissal, sentence completion, time served, or a court-approved probation outcome may result in a return to the community. An internal move to the downtown Jail is not release from SCSO custody. Delivery to TDOC, another county, ICE, USMS, or another agency is also continued custody despite the Annex booking ending.

Ask for the destination as well as the date. “Transfer” means the person left one custodian or location for another, while “discharge” may mark the end of the controlling custody or supervision record. A detainer signals that another authority may assume custody. None of these terms should be turned into “free” without the record showing a community release.

Confirm Jail Annex Release

Search the official SCSO current inmate roster first. The roster is shared across the local custody system and is not an archive of released people. A name can disappear because the booking ended, data changed, or custody moved. No official update cadence or post-release display period was verified. Mark the search time and retain the booking identifier if one appears.

1. Search by the person's full name and compare stable identity details.
2. Call SCSO at (865) 453-4668 with date of birth and approximate booking dates.
3. Ask whether the Annex event was a local discharge, internal move, or agency transfer.
4. Request the release or custody transaction for an actual date, time, disposition, and public destination.
5. Match the event with the court judgment, bond order, dismissal, or other authority.

A named person's broader county search path appears on the Sevier County released inmates page. Use that route when the record does not make the next custodian clear.

Jail Annex Records Contact

The SCSO Records Division is the documentary route for an adult Annex booking. Its official page does not publish a dedicated release-record form, fixed photo fee, verified business hours, or guaranteed turnaround. Start at the Records and Warrants page or call the main number. Confirm the correct counter, entrance, and hours before visiting.

A focused request should identify the full name, date of birth if known, booking number if known, and approximate booking range. Ask for the intake or booking record, movements between the Jail and Annex, actual release date and time, release reason or authority, public receiving agency, bond data, and booking photo if needed. Request an electronic copy and an estimate before chargeable work. The custodian decides what exists and what may be disclosed.

Tennessee's Public Records Act does not require SCSO to create a new narrative or a release list that it does not maintain. A requester can seek existing transactions for a named booking or date range. Copy and qualifying labor fees may apply, and confidential or exempt details can be withheld.

Jail Annex Population Snapshot

The official Annex address is 896 Old Knoxville Highway, Sevierville, Tennessee 37862. TDOC's January 2025 jail summary reported a one-day population of 188 against 356 rated beds and listed 26 TDOC backup prisoners. These numbers describe one dated state report. They do not state present occupancy, annual admissions, average stays, or annual releases.

The backup figure is significant because a state-sentenced person can be physically held at the Annex while TDOC also maintains sentence or status information. When facts point to a felony sentence, search both SCSO and FOIL. A pretrial or misdemeanor-only Annex booking may have no TDOC entry, so FOIL cannot replace the county record.

The SCSO facilities and contact map identifies the separate local buildings. The matching captured view is shown below.

The map helps distinguish the Annex address from administrative locations. It does not verify a release door, daily schedule, or the location from which a particular person will leave.

Two-Site Sevier Custody Records

SCSO operates both the downtown Jail and the Annex, and the state snapshot reports them separately. That physical split can cause a common error: treating a move from one address as release from the county system. Search by person and booking. Ask SCSO whether there was an internal movement, a discharge, or a transfer to an outside agency.

The jail transaction should identify the time and nature of the movement. A court record may show bond, dismissal, sentence completion, probation, or a transport order, but it rarely proves the actual door-out timestamp. TDOC records can show incarceration, probation, parole, inactive status, offenses, sentence information, and release information for qualifying state offenders. Each record answers a limited question.

Internal movement

A change of building while SCSO custody continues.

Release transaction

The jail-management entry that records custody ending at that facility.

Receiving agency

The government body that accepts a transferred person.

Community release

A custody end that returns the person to the community, possibly under supervision.

Note: A court disposition should be paired with the SCSO movement record when exact physical release matters.

Jail Annex TDOC Overlap

FOIL is useful when the Annex held a state-sentenced felony offender or when the person entered TDOC supervision. Search by name, TDOC ID, or State ID. Name search allows an alias-match option and race filter, and the form uses a CAPTCHA. On the detail, preserve TDOC's exact labels. Incarcerated, parole, probation, and inactive describe different state relationships. A release-eligibility date is not the same as an actual release date or sentence expiration.

FOIL follows the statewide state-corrections record, not the county building. A person convicted in Sevier County can serve time anywhere in the TDOC system, remain locally as a backup prisoner, or later report to another supervision district. When a date is disputed, TDOC archived records are the better documentary route. For the moment the person physically left the Annex, SCSO remains the source.

The custody chain can read: court judgment, Annex placement, SCSO transfer, TDOC status, then parole or discharge. Omitting any link may turn a facility departure into a false claim of community release.

ICE Detainers at Jail Annex

Immigration custody matters when an Annex release transaction names ICE or another federal recipient. ICE describes an immigration detainer as a request for notice of impending release and for up to 48 added hours so it may assume custody. The Sevier research did not verify a local ICE agreement. Never infer a handoff from nationality, charge, or roster absence. Use the actual SCSO record.

After a documented ICE transfer, search the Online Detainee Locator using an A-number and country of birth where possible. ICE says qualifying current detainees and people released from ICE custody within the last 60 days can appear. The window is an ICE feature, not a county recent-release list. It excludes minors and does not serve as a permanent history.

A precise account states that SCSO custody at the Annex ended and ICE custody began, if both records support that result. If the locator later reports an ICE release, keep that separate date too. A county handoff is not a release to the community.

Jail Annex Release Planning

No verified routine release time, public release entrance, or property-pickup schedule was found for the Annex. Do not send someone to Old Knoxville Highway based only on a roster change. Call SCSO and confirm the building, timing, access point, transport status, and property procedure. Hours and entrances should also be confirmed before any records visit.

Match at least two stable identifiers when reviewing records. Full name plus date of birth, booking number, case number, TDOC ID, or SID is stronger than a name alone. Record the official query time, source, and label. Dynamic records can change after a correction, delayed posting, amended charge, sentence recalculation, or later transfer entry.

Note: The responsible conclusion after a negative search is “not found in the checked system,” not proof of release.