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Find Bainbridge Center Releases

To find someone released from Bainbridge Substance Abuse Center, use the Georgia state-offender path before the county jail roster. Bainbridge Center holds state and county offenders in Bainbridge, so the right record depends on whose sentence the person served. A Bainbridge Substance Abuse Center release may lead to parole, probation, sentence discharge, another correctional location, or a local court status. This guide explains how to check the statewide offender record, verify a release through GDC, and identify the supervision or court source that documents what happened after the person left Bainbridge Center.

Bainbridge Center Verification Details

Ask a narrow question when the public GDC record does not settle the status. Useful requests seek the date the person left the center, whether the event was discharge or transfer, the destination agency or facility, and whether a supervision term followed. Include the GDC ID, full name, birth date, treatment-center dates, and sentencing case if known.

A court program order can explain why the person entered treatment and what completion required. The GDC record explains correctional location and status. DCS explains active felony community supervision. None of these sources alone should be stretched beyond the fact it owns.

Georgia VINE may provide a custody-change alert when the agency feed includes the person, but it is not a certified program-completion or discharge record. If a released result matters for a court or personal legal process, follow the alert with GDC or court verification. Keep the center phone for routing questions and the state records process for the formal fact.

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Bainbridge Center Release Paths

Bainbridge Substance Abuse Center is a Georgia Department of Corrections residential substance-abuse treatment, or RSAT, center in Bainbridge. It is not the Decatur County Jail, and Citizen Connect is not its release roster. A person leaving the program may return to community supervision, transfer to another GDC location, or move into a court-directed status. The state offender record is the sound first check.

The possible next status includes parole, probation, discharge, or another GDC site. Parole means supervised release before the full sentence expires. Probation is a court-ordered community sentence. Treatment completion and custody release are related but not identical, so a program milestone does not by itself prove that the sentence ended.

RSAT release record: the GDC and court status that documents what followed residential treatment.

Confirm Bainbridge Center Release Status

Use the GDC offender search. An ID or inmate number is the best key. A name search can be narrowed by birth date, sex, race, descriptive data, or case information. Review the current location, status, sentence entries, photo if available, and any parole or pardon link. If Bainbridge Center is no longer shown, look for release, discharge, parole, or a transfer to another GDC location.

  1. Search the state offender record with the strongest identifier.
  2. Confirm the record matches the correct person.
  3. Compare the location and status with Bainbridge Center.
  4. Review sentence and parole-related fields.
  5. Request written verification when the date or status must be exact.

GDC warns that online information should be verified through Inmate Records and Information at P.O. Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. An absent Bainbridge Center location can mean transfer, not release. The Decatur County release-record guide explains when a local court record should be added.

Bainbridge Center Records and Contact

Ask Bainbridge Center about the facility identity and current routing, then use GDC for a formal state release or discharge record. Supply the full name, GDC ID, date of birth, and approximate confinement dates. The GDC open-records portal states that the agency provides an initial response within three business days. Non-medical copies are listed at ten cents each, with search and redaction charged at the lowest-paid qualified employee's hourly rate.

Bainbridge Substance Abuse Center
235 State Hospital Road
Bainbridge, GA 39817
Phone: 229-248-2463
Fax: 404-656-4661
GDC call center: 404-656-4661

Some institutional, investigative, medical, personal, and security-sensitive material can be exempt or redacted. Ask for a narrow record such as release date, discharge status, transfer destination, or sentence-computation entry. A focused request helps the records custodian identify the public portion.

Bainbridge Center Dates Are Not Final

Georgia uses several release-date terms. A Tentative Parole Month, or TPM, is the month when the Parole Board expects to complete final review and may set release. It is not a guaranteed release date. Misconduct or an unmet program condition can postpone or cancel it. A PIC Date can allow an eligible offender to be considered earlier through Performance Incentive Credit, while MRD means Maximum Release Date.

GDC says eligible offenders may earn up to 12 months of PIC through satisfactory work, education, treatment, and conduct, subject to exclusions. The person may also be ineligible for parole under the sentence or offense category. Read the label shown in the state record and confirm it before treating any month or date as final.

A Bainbridge Center location change, TPM, PIC Date, and final discharge are four different facts.

Bainbridge Center Release Card Process

A state offender leaving Bainbridge Center may receive remaining account funds through the Georgia Release Card process. GDC says leftover funds on a released prisoner's books transfer to the card and gives JPay at 866-777-5729 for card assistance. This differs from the Prestige Money Card used by Decatur County Jail.

The card does not prove parole, sentence discharge, or freedom from another hold. It is a funds-delivery step. Use the GDC status, written release record, and supervision source to confirm the legal event.

Bainbridge Center Supervision After Release

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles makes parole decisions. The Department of Community Supervision handles field supervision for felony probationers and parolees. Decatur County is assigned to the Cairo field office at 240 2nd Avenue SE in Cairo. A person out of Bainbridge Center may therefore be out of prison while still subject to parole or probation.

Use the TPM lookup before release and the parolee or DCS route after release. A split sentence combines prison with a later probation term. If the state result is unclear, the sentencing order held by the appropriate clerk can explain whether supervision follows confinement.

Bainbridge Center Detainers and Transfers

A state release can be blocked or redirected by another valid hold. The GDC result may show that Bainbridge Center custody ended, but that does not prove the person entered the community. Confirm any transfer or detainer with GDC and the receiving authority. The same rule applies to parole plans that the Board has not finally approved.

Decatur County's immigration reports make detainers a documented local issue, but they do not establish that a particular Bainbridge Center offender was transferred to ICE. Use ICE ODLS only when the record or agency identifies an immigration handoff.

Bainbridge Treatment Record Context

The official GDC center page confirms the State Hospital Road location and state agency path.

GDC Bainbridge Substance Abuse Center location page

The image helps distinguish this treatment center from Decatur County Jail and its Citizen Connect roster.

GDC identifies the State Hospital Road location as an RSAT center. The Bainbridge address can cause confusion with the county jail. Use the sheriff and Citizen Connect for Spring Creek Road jail custody. Use GDC, the sentencing court, and DCS for this treatment center.

If supervision follows treatment, Decatur County is served by the DCS Cairo field office. If the person moved to another GDC facility, the new location guides the next contact. For a formal discharge fact, request the narrow state record rather than relying on a missing facility name.

The center phone can confirm routing. GDC records and the court explain legal status. That split keeps a treatment transfer from being misread as release to the community.

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