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Lee Arrendale Release Paths

Lee Arrendale State Prison is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections. It is not a Habersham County jail. Someone who leaves Lee Arrendale may enter the community after sentence completion, begin parole, move to a transitional center, transfer to another GDC institution, or pass to another authority under a detainer. A detainer is a request from another agency to take custody. None of these outcomes should be confirmed through the county Sheriff’s former jail roster.

The first public record is GDC Find an Offender. Read the Actual Release Date, Current Status, Most Recent Institution, Max Possible Release Date, and sentence history together. An actual date paired with inactive status supports a release from GDC custody. It does not by itself establish that all supervision ended.

Confirm Lee Arrendale Release

Search by name, GDC ID, or case number. Match the person through aliases, birth year, physical description, conviction county, offense, and sentence facts. GDC warns that photographs display automatically when available and that its public data should be verified by written correspondence before assumptions are treated as complete facts.

1. Open GDC Find an Offender and choose the available name, description, identification, or case search.
2. Match the result with more than one identity field.
3. Read Actual Release Date and Current Status before relying on the maximum date.
4. Review Most Recent Institution and sentence history to confirm the record concerns Lee Arrendale.
5. If parole may follow, check the State Board of Pardons and Paroles parolee database and the assigned DCS office.
6. Request written verification from GDC Inmate Records and Information when formal proof is needed.

The Habersham County released inmate search separates this state route from county jail, federal, and immigration records when the custody type is unclear.

Lee Arrendale Release Records

The public GDC result is a useful first check, but formal verification goes to GDC. The offender-search disclaimer directs written correspondence to Inmate Records and Information. Include the full name, GDC ID if known, date of birth, Lee Arrendale placement, and the exact release or sentence field requiring confirmation. This is the proper state record channel. The Habersham County Sheriff does not maintain the final discharge record for this prison.

Facility staff can route operational questions, while GDC records staff are the verification source for the statewide offender record. Court documents may still be needed for the sentence itself.

Lee Arrendale Prison Facts

GDC describes Lee Arrendale as a special mission prison for adult and juvenile female felons and probationers. It opened in 1951, was constructed in 1926, and was renovated in 1999. The published capacity is 1,476. Its work includes diagnostic services for female offenders statewide, a strategic intervention drug program, mental health and intellectual-disability services, and other programs.

Lee Arrendale also hosts Arrendale Transitional Center and Colwell Probation Detention Center. A result naming one of those placements must be read according to that program, not assumed to describe the main prison population.

Habersham State Release Distinction

Lee Arrendale’s location in Alto creates a common records mix-up. A search for a “Habersham inmate” may concern a state prisoner physically housed in the county rather than a detainee booked by the Sheriff. GDC identifies Lee Arrendale as a statewide diagnostic site and host facility. Conviction county may be anywhere in Georgia.

The official Lee Arrendale facility profile is shown below and supplies the operator, mission, address, population, and capacity used to identify the correct institution.

The profile establishes that this is a GDC institution. Release status still comes from the offender record, parole database, and written GDC verification rather than from the facility profile itself.

Lee Arrendale Parole Status

A prison exit can begin parole. Parole is supervised release authorized by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles before the maximum sentence ends. The Board’s public portal links an Inmate TPM Lookup for people under consideration and a Parolee Database for people already on parole. A tentative parole month, or TPM, is not a final release date. It marks a future review point and can change because of conduct, unmet programs, or other conditions.

After release, field supervision is handled by the Georgia Department of Community Supervision. The Clarkesville Field Office serves Habersham, Rabun, Banks, and the Mountain Circuit. It is at 201 Monroe Street, Clarkesville, with office hours Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and phone 706-754-9315. Public status should be checked before contacting a field office about routing.

Parole

Conditional release from prison while the state sentence remains under supervision.

Discharge

The recorded end of a custody term or supervision obligation.

TPM

A tentative parole review month, not a final promise of release.

Detainer

A request for another authority to receive custody.

Lee Arrendale Detainer Transfers

The Parole Board may parole an eligible person to a detainer, which it calls a conditional transfer. The person leaves Lee Arrendale but goes to the requesting local, state, federal, military, or immigration authority. That is not a community release. Check the GDC disposition and the receiving locator before concluding that confinement ended.

Habersham’s Sheriff posts quarterly immigration reports, making this distinction locally visible even though those reports do not reveal an individual state prisoner’s outcome. For an ICE transfer, use the ICE detainee locator. For a federal criminal transfer, use the BOP locator only after the person enters BOP custody. A state actual-release date may therefore coexist with custody in another system.

Note: A release date belongs to one custody system and does not rule out a new or continuing hold elsewhere.