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Burruss State-Prison Release Paths

Burruss Correctional Training Center holds sentenced people under the Georgia Department of Corrections. Release paths include a maximum-release date after service of the sentence, parole release authorized by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, sentence completion or discharge, transfer to another GDC facility, and movement into community supervision. A person leaving Burruss does not create a Monroe County Jail release record merely because the prison stands in Forsyth.

The destination controls the next record. A parole release moves the person into community supervision and can produce a parolee-search result. A full discharge may end prison custody without parole supervision. A transfer means the person remains in GDC custody at another institution. Each outcome should be checked against the offender record and, when necessary, written verification from GDC Inmate Records and Information.

Confirm a Burruss Release

Begin with the GDC Find an Offender search. GDC says the tool can be searched by name, physical description, GDC ID, or case number. Strong identifiers matter because common names can return several records. Compare the person's GDC ID, case details, facility, and sentence fields before treating a result as a match.

1. Search the full name and add a GDC ID or case number when available.
2. Open the matching record and check whether Burruss is the current or prior facility.
3. Read custody, sentence, maximum-release, and release-related fields together.
4. Check the Parole Board's TPM tool before a possible parole and its parolee database after release on parole.
5. Request written GDC verification if the public result is incomplete or the timing is critical.

GDC warns that public search information may be incomplete and tells users to verify it in writing with Inmate Records and Information at PO Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. An old Burruss assignment alone does not prove release. It may reflect transfer. Likewise, a tentative parole month does not prove that a person left custody. The Monroe County released inmates home page compares county-jail and state-prison search routes.

Burruss Records and Contact

The official GDC Burruss page supplies facility contact and operational facts. The prison can answer facility matters, but release verification belongs in the statewide GDC record and its records channels. For sentence, discharge, or offender-record questions, use GDC's public search first and written records verification when the result needs confirmation.

GDC's general office address is 300 Patrol Road, Forsyth, GA 31029, and the Inmate Concerns or Parole and Corrections Call Center number documented in the research is (404) 656-4661. Written offender-search verification goes to PO Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. Supply the person's full identity, GDC ID if known, and the exact release or sentence field being questioned.

Do not send a Burruss discharge request to the Monroe County Sheriff's Records Custodian. That office owns local jail records. The state owns Burruss offender records. A person may have both histories, but each agency can confirm only its own custody event.

Burruss Release-Date Fields

Georgia Rule 125-2-4 defines several fields that can appear in state-prison release research. Sentence begin date is the effective start and can account for jail time served. Sentence end date reflects the term after maximum sentence length, non-running time, and earned-time credits. Maximum release date is the date a person would leave GDC custody after serving the full sentence, without parole changing the exit.

A projected or maximum date can change because of earned-time calculations, non-running time, misconduct, legal holds, court action, or a parole decision. The Parole Board explains that good conduct and program completion can affect a tentative parole month, while misconduct can postpone or cancel it. Read the actual custody status beside the date before concluding that release occurred.

Burruss Parole and Supervision

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles makes parole decisions. The TPM explanation says the tentative parole month is when final review occurs and, if appropriate, a release date is set. The Board can reconsider a case up to release. A person with a TPM remains an inmate until the record confirms departure.

After parole release, the Board's parolee database is the public lookup designed for a person already on parole. Field reporting is handled by the Georgia Department of Community Supervision. The DCS locations directory lists the Barnesville office as serving Monroe County and the Towaliga Circuit, along with Butts and Lamar counties. The office is at 700 Legacy Park Drive, Barnesville, GA 30204. DCS's statewide number is (678) 783-4337.

Parole and probation are not the same. Parole allows service of part of a prison sentence in the community under conditions. Probation is a court-ordered form of community supervision and may begin without a state-prison release. For a person leaving Burruss, check parole status, GDC release status, and DCS supervision rather than assuming every release becomes parole.

Parole

Conditional community release during a prison sentence.

Discharge

Completion or formal end of a correctional obligation.

TPM

Tentative parole month, a review milestone rather than a guaranteed exit.

Maximum release

The full-sentence release date calculated without parole.

Burruss History and Prison Mission

Burruss opened in 1986 and GDC lists capacity for 806 people. It is a medium-security state prison for adult male felons. These facts separate it from the 168-capacity Monroe County Jail and its local booking function. Capacity describes the institution, not the number released in a given period.

The official GDC Burruss facility page provides the prison's state agency profile.

This profile establishes that Burruss belongs to GDC, so its release records follow state offender and parole channels rather than the county jail feed.

GDC describes work and rehabilitation programs for general-population offenders. Burruss supplies labor support for the Georgia Public Safety Training Center and Tift Campus operations, including Mobile Construction Services. It also holds youthful offenders sentenced as adults between ages 14 and 16 and serves as host facility for the West Central Integrated Treatment Facility.

Those functions explain why a facility assignment may change without release. Work details, program placement, treatment, or transfer can alter where a person appears while GDC custody continues. Confirm the current institution and status in the offender search. The state's release phase may be brief, but the public record must show whether the person was released, paroled, discharged, or simply moved.

Burruss and Monroe Jail Records

Burruss and Monroe County Jail operate under different agencies, populations, and records laws. Burruss is run by GDC for sentenced state offenders. The county jail is run by the sheriff for local bookings, pretrial detention, county sentences, and transfers. The sheriff's Interop feed can show RELEASED for a recent county booking, but it does not track departures from Burruss.

If a person began at the county jail and later entered Burruss, build the timeline from both systems. The sheriff record documents the local booking and transfer. GDC documents state placement, sentence fields, release, and discharge. Court records explain the sentence. The Parole Board and DCS cover parole and community supervision. No single roster replaces all four.

Booking photographs also differ. GDC says offender photographs may display automatically in its search. Monroe County says its jail booking photographs are not posted on the sheriff website under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19(c). A GDC image should never be labeled as the county jail's booking photograph simply because the person once passed through both facilities.

Burruss Holds and Agency Transfers

A release search must account for a possible transfer or hold. Burruss is not an ICE detention center, and no separate federal or ICE detention facility was identified in Monroe County. Yet a person can leave one custody system for another. A missing Burruss assignment may mean transfer within GDC, federal custody, or another lawful placement rather than community release.

Ask GDC for the receiving institution when the public result changes without a clear release status. Federal imprisonment is checked with the Bureau of Prisons locator. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System covers current ICE custody. The Monroe County 287(g) agreement concerns the county sheriff's jail operations and should not be generalized into a claim about every person at Burruss.

Note: Confirm the receiving agency before describing a Burruss departure as a release to the community.