Find Middlesex Jail Releases

Middlesex Jail Release Paths

The Middlesex Jail & House of Correction in Billerica holds men who are awaiting trial and people serving county sentences of up to two and one-half years. The Sheriff's Office also classifies women to its separate pre-release center. Those groups do not all leave under the same authority. Bail, personal recognizance, another court order, time served, sentence expiration, or parole from an eligible house-of-correction term may lead toward the community. A transfer to the Massachusetts Department of Correction, another jail, ICE, or another jurisdiction does not.

A reliable Middlesex Jail release record needs more than an exit date. Ask for the actual release date and time, the coded or written release reason, and the destination or receiving agency. The destination resolves whether the person walked out of custody or merely left this facility. A court docket may explain the legal order, while the Sheriff's custody record supplies the physical exit time. If these sources seem to conflict, compare the dates and ask whether a transfer followed the court event.

Confirm a Middlesex Jail Release

No public Middlesex Sheriff's Office current-name roster or recent-release feed was identified in the July 2026 official-source sweep. Calling the facility is therefore the first route for a current custody question. A call can answer whether a person is presently housed there, but a durable response comes from the Sheriff's Records Access Officer. The full county search and release-record path is also explained on the Middlesex County released inmates home page.

Use a jurisdiction-first sequence. This avoids sending a county jail request to MA DOC, which expressly does not process county jail or house-of-correction records.

1. Call 978-667-1711 with the person's full name and other known identifiers. Ask only for the current custody route at this stage.
2. Send a focused request to the MSO Records Access Officer. Include a narrow admission range, date of birth, aliases, and booking or state identifiers if known.
3. Request the actual release date and time, legal release type, destination, and receiving agency. Ask for the admission sheet and commitment or mittimus information when needed.
4. Check the criminal docket for the order or sentence. Remote criminal access often works best with the exact docket number.
5. If the record shows MA DOC, federal, or immigration custody, continue in that authority's system rather than calling the transfer a community release.

Middlesex Jail Release Records

The Sheriff's public-record channel accepts targeted requests for records held by MSO. Write to Records Access Officer Megan McLatchey at publicrecords@sdm.state.ma.us or call 781-960-2830. Request electronic copies and any reasonably segregable, nonexempt portions. Massachusetts public-record fees are governed by M.G.L. c.66, §10, so there is no sound basis for promising a flat fee. A response may redact or withhold protected material while releasing other portions.

The strongest request identifies the person and event with care. Useful items include the booking or admission sheet, commitment or mittimus data, actual release timestamp, release reason, destination, sentence length, jail credit, earned-time fields, and any equivalent release authorization. A booking photograph should be named as a separate electronic record. Sealed, impounded, expunged, juvenile, or otherwise restricted material may not be available through public routes.

Mittimus

The court document that commits a person to custody and states the authority for detention or sentence.

Discharge

The formal end of the relevant custody or sentence status, which is more precise than disappearance from a roster.

Detainer

A request or notice tied to another authority. It may affect where the person goes after leaving MSO custody.

Note: Ask for release type and destination together because either field alone can leave a transfer unresolved.

Middlesex Jail Contact Details

Direct facility contact is useful for present custody routing and operational questions. Public-record requests should go to the designated records channel so the response can identify the record searched and address disclosure limits.

The official Middlesex Sheriff's facility page describes the jail and house-of-correction role. The captured official page below helps identify the correct county custodian before a release inquiry is sent.

That source confirms the Billerica facility is an MSO operation, so its booking and county-release records do not belong to MA DOC.

Middlesex Jail Release Logistics

MSO publishes a narrow procedure for posting bail. A poster arrives at the jail Visiting Center between 6:30 and 7 p.m., brings cash and government photo identification, and must arrive no later than 7 p.m. After 4 p.m. and on weekends, callers use extension 0 on the main line. Payment is a release mechanism, not proof of the final exit time. The custody call or release record still confirms what happened afterward.

Money and property can remain unresolved after custody ends. Under the official MSO canteen and property instructions, a formerly incarcerated person may retrieve property by appointment Monday through Friday with 24 hours' notice. A named designee needs the MSO Property Release Form or a notarized letter. The property number is 978-932-3153. Remaining account funds are not collected at the jail. The former person calls 978-667-1711 and uses Canteen extension 3162, 3270, 3239, or 3290, supplies an accurate address, and receives a check by mail in their own name.

Note: Property pickup and mailed funds are post-release tasks, but neither one substitutes for the legal release record.

Middlesex Jail ICE Transfers

The ICE Boston Enforcement and Removal Operations check-in office is located at 1000 District Avenue in Burlington, within Middlesex County. It is a field and check-in office, not a detention facility. No current ICE detention facility or current 287(g) agreement involving the Middlesex Sheriff's Office was found in the official research. Its local address must not be added to a detention-facility list.

A person can still leave the Middlesex Jail and enter separate ICE custody. Massachusetts guidance states that a federal civil detainer by itself does not authorize a state or local hold, while ICE may separately assume custody under its authority. If the MSO release record names immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator. It covers current detainees and certain people released from ICE within a limited 60-day window. Exact-match problems, exclusions, and delay make a blank result weak evidence.

Note: A transfer from the jail to ICE changes custodians. It is not proof that the person returned to the community.

Closed Middlesex Prison Signals

Middlesex County has an unusual set of closed correctional sites that can create false release conclusions. MCI-Concord ended custody operations on June 30, 2024, after 146 years. Approximately 300 people were reclassified and reassigned. South Middlesex Correctional Center stopped holding people in 2021. MCI-Shirley's former minimum and pre-release units also closed, while its medium-security prison continued to operate.

Someone who left the Billerica jail for a state prison may later disappear from an old facility reference because DOC moved the person during consolidation. Search the current statewide DOC custody route or request the movement and discharge record. A closed building is not a mass release event. The same logic applies to a person transferred from MSO to an active state site and then moved again within DOC.

Middlesex Jail Records Retention

Formal records can outlive every online custody view. The March 2026 Statewide Records Retention Schedule includes a Middlesex Sheriff-specific J09 series. Commitment and discharge logs and indexes, along with fingerprint-card and photo records, are permanent electronically. Other central case records are retained for six years and then transferred to the electronic system. Property records remain for three years after final release and then electronically.

Retention does not guarantee public disclosure. It does show why a precise records request is different from a live custody call. Statewide correction series also preserve certain house-of-correction records for 25 years after release and specified photographs for ten years until superseded. When no public name feed exists, the custodian's retained release record is the sound path for an older Middlesex Jail event.

Note: Retention supports a later request but does not guarantee that every stored field is publicly disclosed.