Search Horry County Released Inmates

Understanding Horry County Releases

A Horry County release record answers a narrow but vital question: when did a person leave the custody of a named agency, and how did that agency classify the event? For the county jail, the key source is the official Horry County Bookings & Releases application. A dated “Released” entry is much stronger than a name that no longer appears. The same application can instead say “Still Incarcerated” or “Out to Home Detention.” Those labels should be repeated exactly because they describe different forms of control.

Release does not always mean a person entered the community without limits. A bond can leave the criminal case open. Home detention moves the person outside the secure jail but keeps a form of custody in place. A transfer sends the person to another custodian, such as the South Carolina Department of Corrections. A prison release marked COMMUNITY SUPV starts or continues a supervised phase. A federal or immigration hold may also turn the local exit into a direct transfer.

Horry County Release Types

The label and destination determine the next useful record. J. Reuben Long Detention Center holds county detainees, including people awaiting court action and people serving local terms. Its event record should be read beside the charge and court history. The following distinctions keep a physical jail departure from being mistaken for a final case outcome or a full sentence discharge.

What does discharge mean? A discharge ends the custody or supervision obligation identified by the issuing agency. It should not be inferred from a missing result. Ask for the agency's completion record when the end of supervision is the fact that matters.

Horry County Release Record Fields

A Horry County released inmate detail ties the event to one booking. Searchers should compare more than the name, since one person may have several bookings and similar names may appear. The application supplies identifying and event fields, a booking photograph, charge information, and a custody label. Bail or disposition information may appear when it was entered, but no one field should be stretched beyond what it says.

The application shows a “Data last collected” timestamp, yet Horry County publishes no guaranteed update cadence or online retention period. That timestamp describes collection activity, not a promise that a new release appears at once. For a lasting or older record, ask the responsible custodian for the final release event.

The official county search shows both its blank inputs and a released record detail in the captured view below.

The image highlights why the Release Date field and dated status are more useful than merely checking whether a name appears on a current roster.

Note: The booking photograph identifies a past booking record; it does not establish conviction, supervision, or current custody.

Request Horry County Release Records

Use a written request when the online Horry County release detail is missing, too old, or not precise enough. The Sheriff Public Information Office directs requesters to the county process. A narrow request is more useful than asking for every file connected to a person. Include the full name, approximate booking and release dates, and booking number if known. Ask for the final release date and time, event type, releasing facility, booking photograph, and related charge or disposition fields that are held and releasable.

1. Confirm that JRLDC or the Sheriff's Office is the custodian for the booking.
2. Use the Horry County request route and identify one booking.
3. Ask for electronic production and a cost estimate before charges exceed a stated limit.
4. Keep the request and submission time, then separate the determination from production.
5. Review the response for date, time, type, booking number, and any transfer notation.

Horry County lists copies at $0.15 per letter-size page and staff time at $25 per hour, with full payment before production; other fees may apply. A determination is due within 10 business days for records no more than 24 months old and within 20 business days for older records. Production generally follows within 30 calendar days after the determination or deposit, or 35 days for older records. Those are request rules, not jail-release processing times.

Horry County Release Record Law

South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, Title 30 Chapter 4, broadly includes photographs and other documentary material held by public bodies, subject to exemptions. Section 30-4-30 permits inspection, copies, or electronic delivery of nonexempt records. Search, retrieval, and redaction fees may not exceed actual cost, and electronic transmission has no copy charge. An advance deposit may not exceed 25 percent of the expected cost.

Public access is not absolute. Juvenile files, sealed or expunged records, privacy interests, active enforcement material, safety information, and records closed by another law can restrict production. Documents identifying people confined during the prior three months generally must be available for in-person inspection under Section 30-4-30(D)(3), unless an exemption applies. That rule does not create a promise that every release field remains online.

Expungement

A process that removes or destroys qualifying justice records under set rules.

Detainer

A request or hold tied to another authority that may change the destination.

Time served

Credit for confinement already completed toward a court-ordered term.

Parole

A conditional community phase after prison.

Bond Release in Horry County

Bond is a common Horry County release path, but it is not a case disposition. The JRLDC bond page says hearings typically occur at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Times vary, so confirm at 843-915-5145. The Magistrate Office publishes weekday hours of 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekend or holiday hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those hours do not guarantee when physical release will finish.

Cash and surety bonds are posted in person. Accepted methods are cash, money order, and major card, not personal check, and exact cash is required. Booking staff at 843-915-6911 can say whether a charge qualifies for “Cash and Dash,” which may avoid a pre-release magistrate appearance for certain pay offenses. The ticketed court date still remains. HCSO warns that it never collects bond by telephone, a useful check against payment scams.

Note: A bond order authorizes release, while the booking detail records when jail processing resulted in physical departure.

Getting Home After Horry Release

Horry County publishes unusually specific transportation facts for people leaving JRLDC. Released people arrange their own transportation. Coast RTA makes scheduled stops at the detention center. The county currently lists a $3 fare from JRLDC to Conway, then $1.50 from the Conway Bus Station to Myrtle Beach. An indigent person who needs the Conway-to-Myrtle Beach trip may ask administrative staff for a bus pass.

Fares and schedules can change, so confirm both with the county release page before planning a pickup. The county does not publish a universal release hour, public exit door, family waiting location, holiday release schedule, or detailed property-return procedure. A reported bond hearing time therefore should not be treated as a pickup time.

Horry Release Records After Expungement

A missing old Horry County release record can have a lawful cause. The Horry County Solicitor's process explains that qualifying relief under Section 17-1-40 reaches arrest and booking files, photographs, and fingerprints. General Sessions applications route through the circuit solicitor. Summary matters may route to the court that handled them, while juvenile matters go through the Solicitor.

Expungement is not automatic simply because a charge was dismissed or ended without a conviction. Routes, fees, and exceptions depend on the case and court. Horry's blank eligibility form says an answer, instructions, or denial should issue within three business days and that an eligible process may take up to four months. The form contains sensitive identifiers and should be sent only through the official route. If a valid order removes a record, its absence should not be called a database failure.

Find Horry County Released Inmates

Start with the custodian that last held the person. A Horry-only booking belongs in the county application. A transfer to state prison belongs in SCDC's current search until the person leaves prison, then in the separate released list. Community supervision belongs with SCDPPPS. BOP, ICE, and the federal court cover different federal transitions. No single result can settle every form of release.

1. Search Horry Bookings & Releases by last name or the relevant Release Date. Open the detail and record its booking number and exact status.
2. Compare the Horry Public Index when the court outcome, bond order, or sentence matters.
3. Use SCDC's current search for a transfer or current state sentence. Use the Released Inmate List after state custody ends.
4. Check SCDPPPS when parole, probation, or COMMUNITY SUPV is possible.
5. Use South Carolina VINE for notice and status, then confirm with the source custodian.
6. Route a federal sentence to BOP, an immigration transition to ICE, and federal pretrial custody to the court, facility, or USMS.
7. File a narrow records request when online information is missing, old, or unclear.

For date-window work, the Released Last 24 Hours method explains how Horry's exact-date field reconstructs a period that crosses midnight. A named-person inquiry should still follow the custody-specific sequence above.

SCDC Horry Release Search

SCDC maintains two distinct tools. The current inmate search covers people now sentenced to and incarcerated in SCDC, with data current as of the previous midnight. SCDC excludes released people, county detainees, people on parole or probation, juveniles, and current SCDC fugitives. Retrying that tool cannot find the population it excludes.

For a former state prisoner, use the SCDC Released Inmate List. The Horry filter does not prove current residence or supervision county. Read the Release Type literally. A COMMUNITY SUPV result documents exit from institutional custody into a supervised phase, not full sentence discharge.

SCDC's general calculator is an “earliest possible case scenario,” not proof for a named sentenced person. Actual state release belongs in the released list or with Inmate Records at 803-896-8531.

The official SCDC released search displays its date-range inputs and Horry result fields in the captured view.

The separate state interface records an SCDC institutional exit, not a release served only through JRLDC.

Recent Horry County Releases

Horry County has no verified rolling 24-hour or 72-hour release button. The official application accepts one Release Date. A last-24-hours check requires every calendar date touched by that interval, followed by a comparison of displayed times. A 72-hour check normally requires three or four date searches. Calendar-date results should not be called an official rolling feed.

Write down each date searched, the visible “Data last collected” time, and whether the query returned records. That creates a reproducible account of what the application showed. It does not establish that no one was released if the result is empty. A just-completed event can lag, and Horry gives no retention promise. Call JRLDC at 843-915-5140 or Booking at 843-915-6911 for prompt confirmation.

Note: Search the Release Date field, not the default booking date, and inspect each detail before reporting its custody label.

Horry Release Record and Court

The jail event and Horry Public Index answer different questions. The booking detail records a custody event. The Horry Public Index supplies legal history, including charges, docket events, disposition, and sentencing orders. A bond order can authorize release, but it does not give the jail's physical processing time unless it says so. A dated jail release does not state how the case ended.

Search the party name or case number, confirm identity from dates and charge context, and read events in order. Some municipal cases may require the particular municipal court. General Sessions handles adult felony and higher-level misdemeanor matters. When sources differ, use JRLDC for its departure time and the court for the legal order or disposition.

Horry Release Supervision Lookup

The SCDPPPS offender search accepts first name, last name, SID, county, and year of birth in its listed combinations. A positive match can support a parole, probation, or other supervised phase. The data represents the previous day, and people who are no longer supervised may be absent. For present-day status, choose Horry through the county-office directory, while remembering that arrest, conviction, release, home, and supervision counties may differ.

Parole usually follows prison and is a conditional community phase authorized through the Board. Probation is generally court ordered and may occur without prison. When an SCDC release type says COMMUNITY SUPV, pair it with SCDPPPS. To prove supervision ended, request a discharge or completion record rather than infer the result from a missing name.

Horry Release Alerts and Transfers

South Carolina VINE/SAVIN supports custody status and notifications across participating county and state systems. Search one adult by name or offender number and check the agency shown. Telephone registration uses a four-digit PIN to confirm receipt, while email and text alerts do not use that phone PIN. Register again after an agency transfer. VINE cannot track adults out on bond, and it does not cover federal BOP, ICE, or USMS events.

A sentenced federal person belongs in the BOP Inmate Locator. “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody” means BOP no longer holds that person, not that every other form of custody or supervision ended. The ICE locator covers current ICE custody and releases within a limited 60-day window. USMS has no matching public name locator for federal pretrial custody, so the federal docket, actual jail, or a records request may be necessary.

An ICE detainer can turn a dated departure from JRLDC into a transfer to ICE. The Horry release detail and the next custodian's record then describe two stages of one transition. A no-result after the ICE window closes has little historical value.

Horry Release Status by System

The best lookup follows the custody type. One person can move through more than one row, and each new custodian creates a new status question. Match names with booking numbers, SCDC IDs, offender numbers, or case numbers when possible.

Can a court case prove release? Only when the docket or order expressly records the event. Otherwise, pair that legal context with the custodian's dated record.

Horry County Release Facility

J. Reuben Long Detention Center is the only verified adult custodial facility in the Horry County manifest. It is operated by the Horry County Sheriff's Office and is the principal county release point. A person may leave for the community on bond or after local time, move to home detention, transfer to SCDC or another custodian, or remain subject to a hold.

The next source depends on that destination. County release stays in Bookings & Releases. State intake moves to SCDC's current search. Later state discharge moves to the SCDC Released Inmate List, with SCDPPPS added for supervision. Federal or immigration custody requires its own system. The Coastal Evaluation Center was not added because juvenile release records are restricted and it is not an ordinary adult search route.

Note: No adult state prison, BOP institution, or ICE detention center was verified as physically located in Horry County.