Lawtey Release Versus Transfer
FDC operates Lawtey Correctional Institution at 22298 NE County Road 200B in Lawtey. It is an adult state correctional institution. The person's statewide DC record follows moves between FDC sites. A new location means transfer unless release history records an exit from state custody.
Use a past Release Date and Date Out-Custody to support a completed prison release. Check Current Population when another FDC placement is possible. Then check Supervised Population for parole, conditional release, probation, or another monitored status. A prison release and the later end of supervision are separate events.
Search Lawtey Release Records
The FDC release form accepts a six-character DC number, first and last name, alias choice, and photo filters. Name matching begins with the entered text. Open the detail because the list does not carry the full incarceration history.
- Match DC number, committed name, date of birth, and photograph.
- Read the Release Date and sentence history.
- Confirm Date Out-Custody for the Lawtey-era incarceration period.
- Search Current Population for continued FDC custody.
- Search Supervised Population for a post-prison state term.
Release information updates nightly. FDC cautions that its public data can change quickly. A future Current Release Date may move through gain-time awards, forfeitures, or review and is not proof that discharge occurred.
Lawtey Release Record Fields
The FDC detail can show the offender photograph, DC number, committed name, aliases, custody classification, Release Date, sentence history, and incarceration periods. The strongest historical match combines identity, sentence, Date In-Custody, and Date Out-Custody.
| Source | Question answered |
|---|---|
| Release detail | When FDC records or schedules state release |
| Current Population | Whether the person remains confined by FDC |
| Supervised Population | Whether state supervision follows confinement |
| Court judgment | What sentence the court imposed |
Do not use the disappearance of Lawtey as a location field as the release test. Location and custody status answer different questions.
Lawtey Records and Contact
The institution number serves operational questions. FDC's central bureaus handle the release and population databases. Give the DC number, full name, approximate dates, and disputed field when asking for help.
22298 NE County Road 200B
Lawtey, FL 32058
904-782-2000
Administrative mail: P.O. Box 2000, Lawtey, FL 32058
850-488-9167, dc.release@fdc.myflorida.com
850-488-9859, central.classification@fdc.myflorida.com
FDC's formal public-record route can provide existing nonconfidential records after review. A precise request may seek an incarceration history, release event, date-out entry, or location history. FDC does not have to create a custom report.
Lawtey Supervision After Release
Supervised Population is the next stop when prison custody ended but a legal term remains. Its full data refresh is weekly, while location and termination changes update nightly. The Starke probation office serves Bradford County within Circuit 08 at 1250 East Andrews Street, Suite N2, and can be reached at 904-368-3600.
FDC Field Services handles supervision-record questions at 850-717-3444 and co-supervision@fdc.myflorida.com. An absconder entry means the person is reported missing from supervision. It does not mean a new Lawtey release or current prison placement.
- DC number
- FDC's six-character offender identifier.
- Date Out-Custody
- The recorded end of an incarceration-history period.
- Transfer
- Movement to a different institution while custody continues.
Lawtey Facility Boundaries
FDC identifies Lawtey CI with Bradford County. Its listed Gainesville Work Camp satellite is in Alachua County and should not be treated as another Bradford facility. Nearby Florida State Prison, West Unit, New River, and Union CI also create place-name confusion. Search the individual DC record instead of assuming that every Raiford or Lawtey reference describes the same institution.
New River's closure reassigned prisoners rather than releasing them. That local event supplies the practical rule for Lawtey too: a facility change is not community discharge. The official Lawtey CI profile confirms the institution and satellite listing.
The profile establishes the facility context. Individual release status remains in the offender databases.
Lawtey Release Date Meanings
FDC records separate a forecast from an event that already occurred. The public scheduled-release detail uses Current Release Date for the visible forecast. Florida Statutes section 944.275 calls the gain-time projection the tentative release date. FDC warns that awards, forfeitures, and record review can change that date. A value marked TO BE SET is pending review. Neither label confirms that a person has walked out of Lawtey Correctional Institution or any other state prison.
A completed Lawtey release must be read through the historical record. Date In-Custody and Date Out-Custody define an incarceration period. The Release Date and release history show what FDC recorded when state custody ended or was scheduled to end. The current-population record answers a different question: whether FDC still records the person in prison and at what location. Reading all three views prevents a future forecast from being repeated as a past event.
Lawtey Release Search Coverage
The Corrections Offender Network covers felony offenders sentenced to FDC. It does not cover a person who served only a Bradford County jail term, county probation, or another non-FDC status. That limit matters in Lawtey because a local arrest by Lawtey Police does not prove the person entered the state prison system. When the record concerns the county jail in Starke, use the Bradford County path instead of the Lawtey institution page.
Within FDC, one search does not answer every time-based question. Inmate Population asks whether the person is now recorded in prison. Inmate Release includes people who were released and people scheduled for release. Supervised Population concerns a person outside prison under FDC field supervision. Absconder/Fugitive is limited to a supervised person who ceased making himself or herself available. An absence from one database should be checked against the others with the same DC number.
The release database updates nightly. Full population and supervision information refreshes weekly, while release dates, locations, and termination dates update nightly. Urgent or disputed details should be taken to the FDC unit named for that record rather than inferred from refresh timing.
Requesting Lawtey Release Records
Online detail may be enough to confirm a known FDC discharge, but a discrepancy may call for the underlying record. The Bureau of Admission and Release handles release information. Central Records handles population and location data. A focused request should identify the person by DC number, state the approximate incarceration period, and name the exact field at issue, such as Date Out-Custody, release history, or institution history.
FDC also maintains a formal public-record page and GovQA portal. The public-record contact is at 501 South Calhoun Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, with assistance at 850-717-9774. FDC reviews requests for confidentiality and other exemptions. It need not create a new record, perform broad research, answer a set of questions, or convert data into a form it does not maintain. Asking for an existing Lawtey incarceration-history or release record keeps the request tied to records FDC may hold.
- Give the full committed name and DC number.
- Identify Lawtey Correctional Institution and the relevant dates.
- Name the release, date-out, or location-history record sought.
- Ask for nonconfidential portions if redaction is required.
- Review the response against the online FDC detail.
The court judgment can document the sentence imposed, but it does not replace FDC's date-out record. Each source proves a different part of the release history.
Lawtey Release and Supervision
Leaving Lawtey prison custody does not always end the legal term. Florida uses several forms of supervision, including parole, conditional release, and probation. The FDC Supervised Population detail may show the status, supervision type, location or office, start information, and termination date. The Florida Commission on Offender Review makes parole and certain conditional-release decisions, while FDC Community Corrections carries the searchable field-supervision record.
If the release detail shows a past state-prison exit, run the same DC number through Supervised Population. Contact the office displayed in the record when confirmation is needed. Bradford County's documented local office is the Starke probation office in Region 2, Circuit 08. A person can be outside Lawtey Correctional Institution and still be required to report under a state term.
When supervision is thought to have ended, read the termination information rather than assuming that a missing current record proves discharge. The FDC Absconder/Fugitive database serves another narrow purpose. An absconder is a supervised person reported as no longer making himself or herself available. That label does not prove a new booking or a return to Lawtey custody.
Bradford Prison Transfer Pattern
Lawtey Correctional Institution sits within an unusually dense corrections area. Florida State Prison, FSP West Unit, Lawtey CI, and the former New River site are in or tied to Bradford County, while Union Correctional Institution is nearby across the Union County line. Old references to Raiford, Bradford, or Lawtey may describe different FDC places. The custodian is still FDC, but the named location must be checked against the individual incarceration history.
New River provides the clearest local example. Its 2021 closure led to reassignment of prisoners and staff, not a group release. FDC now says the former New River Work Camp is Union Work Camp under Union Correctional Institution. A Lawtey location change deserves the same care. It may show a transfer within the state system. Only the release history, Date Out-Custody, and any later supervision record establish whether state prison custody actually ended.
For the broader distinction between county-jail exits and state-prison discharges, the Bradford County released-inmate record path separates BCSO, FDC, court, federal, and notification sources. Lawtey CI remains an FDC route throughout.