Check CWRC Release Records

CWRC Release Means Discharge

The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office describes the Community Work Release Center, or CWRC, as a county unit for men serving county-jail sentences. A participant may be approved for work release or a county work squad. That activity happens within a custody classification. It does not mean the sentence ended or that SJSO discharged the person.

A completed CWRC release must be tied to sentence completion, a court order, or another official authorization. The SJSO booking and release record should give the actual date and type. The Clerk case should show the sentence and later court actions. If the person moved back to the Main Detention Unit, went to another jail, or entered another agency's custody, the event is a transfer rather than a return to the community.

Confirm a CWRC Release

CWRC has no separate public release search in the reviewed official sources. It uses the SJSO county record path. The live SJSO inmate-search entry was temporarily down during research and did not expose a historical release list. A person who is not visible in a current roster may have completed a sentence, moved to the Main Unit, or gone to another custodian.

1. Check the official SJSO inmate-search entry and note its current availability. Do not substitute an unofficial recent-release list.
2. Call Booking at 904-209-3125 for an immediate county custody question. Ask whether the person is still in SJSO custody or has a recorded destination.
3. Search the St. Johns County Clerk record for the sentence, credit, completion entry, modification, or release order.
4. Submit a focused SJSO Records request for the booking and release report, actual date and time, release type, and destination or receiving agency.
5. Follow any transfer in the system named by SJSO. An FDC, ICE, federal, or another-county entry answers a separate custody question.

The St. Johns County released-inmate record path adds VINELink and other receiving-system checks when the county record is incomplete. VINELink can be a useful status signal, but it does not replace the sheriff's release report or the court sentence.

Note: No official source identified a separate CWRC roster, release feed, public release hour, or post-release retention window.

CWRC Release Records Contact

Ask SJSO for records it maintains rather than a new narrative. Give the person's full name, booking number when known, sentence case number, and approximate dates. Request the CWRC booking, unit-placement or movement entry, release or disposition record, and the field showing the release date, time, type, authority, and destination. If the person returned to the Main Unit, ask that the movement be distinguished from final discharge.

The SJSO public-record request page links to an online GovQA portal. Requests can also be routed through the agency's Records contact. The reviewed SJSO page gives no flat fee or promised turnaround for a CWRC release record. Ask for an electronic copy and a cost estimate. If part of the record is exempt, Florida public-record law calls for the nonexempt part to be produced after redaction.

The official SJSO detention page identifies CWRC as one of the agency's two adult inmate facilities.

The image confirms the county facility context. It does not show a person's custody status or completed release.

CWRC County Sentence Scope

SJSO calls the current county unit the Community Work Release Center and describes it as a 100-bed facility for men sentenced to county jail for 364 days or less. Some local material uses the name Community Work Re-Entry Center. Those two names should not be treated as proof of separate facilities or separate release rosters.

CWRC is not a Florida state prison. The FDC tentative-release-date field generally does not control a county sentence there, and the FDC offender database expressly excludes county-jail sentences and county probation. The Clerk's sentence, lawful jail credit, SJSO's maintained calculation, and the final county release record are the relevant sources.

CWRC Work Release Is Custody

Work release allows an eligible county inmate to take part in approved activity while remaining under SJSO rules. The physical fact that the person was seen away from the unit cannot show discharge. The same is true of a county work squad. Custody can continue even when the day's activity occurs outside the facility building.

Use exact record labels. A movement entry may show an approved departure and return. A transfer entry may show a move to the Main Detention Unit or another custodian. A release entry should show the county custody endpoint. Combining those events under the single word “released” can create a false account of where the person went.

The Main Detention Unit release page explains the county intake point and the records used when a CWRC participant returns to the main jail. A move between the two SJSO adult units is internal county custody, not a new community release.

CWRC Good-Conduct Release Credit

Florida Statutes section 951.21 authorizes county good-conduct commutation unless the county commission revises or discontinues the policy. The statutory schedule can allow up to five days per month during the first and second years, with limited meritorious credit. Misconduct can cause accrued credit to be lost.

That authority is not a record-specific release calculation. It also does not prove the details of current SJSO policy. CWRC's stated sentence range is 364 days or less, so later-year tiers in the statute would not ordinarily describe the population the agency says it houses. Never calculate a person's exit by subtracting the statutory maximum from the sentence.

The reliable date comes from the sentence, credit already awarded by the court, SJSO's maintained county calculation, and the final release report. A future estimate can change after corrected credit, a new court order, lost credit, or another lawful event. Ask SJSO for the actual calculation rather than promising a date.

Note: Florida's state-prison 85-percent rule is not a formula for a CWRC county-jail sentence.

CWRC Re-Entry Program Counts

SJSO's 2023 annual report describes the opening of an on-site Re-Entry Center after a building tied to the main jail was renovated. The report lists 369 re-entry assessments, 135 identification cards, and 93 family or support reunifications for that reporting period. These figures describe program services. They are not counts of CWRC releases, participants, beds, or sentence completions.

The distinction matters because re-entry support can occur before or around a release without establishing the custody event itself. An identification card or family reunification entry does not show the release date or legal basis. Use the program counts only to understand local service activity. Use SJSO Records and the Clerk for a named person's discharge.

Work release

Approved activity outside the unit while county custody continues.

Discharge

The formal end of the county custody term shown in the release record.

Re-entry service

Support such as an assessment, identification help, or family contact, not proof of release.

Transfer

A change of custodian or SJSO placement rather than community discharge.

CWRC Transfer and ICE Handoffs

A CWRC endpoint may be a return to the Main Detention Unit or a handoff to another agency. The county release report should be read for a destination or receiving-agency field. If FDC is named, use FDC after intake. If another county is named, use that county's official jail system. Federal and immigration systems answer different questions.

A historical 2019 St. Johns County 287(g) Warrant Service Officer agreement discussed immigration warrants served at scheduled criminal release and an up-to-48-hour transfer framework. It illustrates how county custody can end while ICE custody starts. The agreement is historical and cannot establish current CWRC procedure or the status of a named person.

If an SJSO record identifies an immigration handoff, check the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for current custody. ODLS is not a historical release archive. A missing result does not establish release, removal, or transfer. The precise conclusion should remain limited to the proven event: CWRC or SJSO custody ended, and the receiving record controls what happened next.

Note: The 2019 agreement provides historical context only; verify any current program before describing present handoff practices.