Alexandria Released Inmates
Alexandria released inmates records cover people freed from the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center, the Alexandria Sheriff's Office, and the city's Circuit and General District Courts. This page helps you search for an Alexandria released inmate by name, ID, or case file. You can pull a roster, look up a court date, or get an alert when someone walks out the gate. The Alexandria Sheriff runs the city jail under Sheriff Sean Casey. We link the right tools for an Alexandria released inmate search so you can start fast.
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Alexandria Released Inmates Jail Roster
The William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center holds people booked by Alexandria police and the sheriff. The jail sits at 2001 Mill Road, Alexandria, VA 22314. The phone is 703-746-5000. The roster updates each day, and some feeds refresh as often as every 15 minutes. You can search by name to find an Alexandria released inmate or to see who is still in custody. The list shows the booking date, the charges, and the held or released status. Pre-trial detainees and people serving short jail terms both show up.
The screenshot below comes from the official City of Alexandria website, which links to the sheriff and jail pages.
Use the city website to reach the sheriff, the police, and court clerk pages in one place. Each page is the start of a fresh Alexandria released inmate search.
Note: The Truesdale jail holds people sentenced to a year or less, so longer terms move on to a Virginia state prison.
Alexandria Released Inmates Police Records
The Alexandria Police Department posts a crime database that ties to incident and arrest data. You can pull up reports by date, type, or block. The data feeds the Alexandria released inmates pipeline at the front end. Police take the booking, then the sheriff takes the inmate. If you need an arrest report, you can also file a request with the records unit.
The image below is from the Alexandria Police crime database, a key tool for this kind of search.
Use this page to spot an arrest near you, then move on to the jail roster for an Alexandria released inmate update.
Alexandria Released Inmates Court Files
Most felony charges in Alexandria go through the Alexandria Circuit Court. The court is at 520 King Street. Misdemeanors and traffic charges go to the General District Court at the same address. Both courts post case files online. Use the Virginia Circuit Court case search for felony files. Use the General District Court case search for the rest. Pick Alexandria from the locality list to filter the results.
Court files often show the sentence, the credit for time served, and the projected release date. That makes them a top source when you trace an Alexandria released inmate. The case prefix CR means a circuit criminal case. GC means general district criminal. You can search by name or case number.
Below is the Alexandria arrest records page from a third-party court records site.
This kind of page can pull together arrest data and link it to the right court file for an Alexandria released inmate.
State Inmate Locator for Alexandria
If an Alexandria released inmate served more than a year, the case likely moved to the Virginia Department of Corrections. Use the VADOC offender locator to look up a state prison record. Search by name or by the seven-digit Offender ID. The result shows the facility, the projected release date, and the sentence info. There is no fee.
VADOC tracks about 24,000 state inmates in 26 prisons. Many people sent up from Alexandria pass through one of these facilities. The locator does not show local jail time, so use the Truesdale roster first for short terms.
Note: A name match in VADOC is not always the right person, so confirm the date of birth or Offender ID before you act.
VINE Alerts for Alexandria Released Inmates
VINE is the free alert tool for Alexandria released inmates and for jails across the state. Sign up at vinelink.com or call 1-800-467-4943. Pick the inmate, then pick how you want the alert: text, email, or phone call. VINE will let you know about a release, a transfer, an escape, or a court date change. The service is private, so the inmate is not told that someone is watching the case.
VINE works with the Alexandria Sheriff's Office and with the state prison system. You can register more than one person at a time. The alerts go out the moment the jail or prison logs the change.
Criminal History and FOIA in Alexandria
For a full criminal history, ask the Virginia State Police. The VSP Criminal Records page lists the SP-167 form. The fee is $15 per name search. Mail the form, with a notarized signature, to the Civil and Applicants Records Exchange in Richmond. You can add a sex offender registry check for $5. The check covers state-level files, not federal ones.
For city-held files on an Alexandria released inmate, file a Virginia FOIA request with the sheriff or police records unit. The law lives at Virginia Code § 2.2-3700. The agency has five working days to reply, with seven more if needed. Law enforcement records have extra rules under § 2.2-3706.
Juvenile records are off limits except in narrow cases. See Virginia Code § 19.2-389 for the rules on who can get a record.
Alexandria Released Inmates Resources
Use these links to start most Alexandria released inmate searches:
- Alexandria Sheriff's Office
- Alexandria Police crime database
- Circuit Court case search
- General District Court search
- VADOC offender locator
- VINE Link alerts
For state-level rules on prisons see Virginia Code Title 53.1. It covers how the Department of Corrections runs each facility and how releases are handled.
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