Marshall ICE Detention Scope
No ICE detention center, immigration holding facility, or ICE detention contract was verified within Marshall County, Tennessee. The ICE detention system appears in the county facility map because a local jail departure can lead into federal immigration custody. It should not be described as a building in Lewisburg. A person may be held far outside the county, and the relevant detention site can change as the federal case moves.
Evidence of an ICE detainer or receiving authority should come before an ICE search is treated as the primary route. Start with the Marshall County Jail release sheet when the last known event was local. Ask whether the person left on bond, completed time, entered probation, transferred to another criminal custodian, or was handed to immigration authorities. The field naming the receiving agency is more reliable than a roster disappearance. If ICE received the person, the federal locator and underlying immigration record become the next sources.
Search ICE Detention Records
The ICE Online Detainee Locator System, commonly called ODLS, has two search routes. The number route uses an A-number and country of birth. An A-number is the immigration file number. It must contain nine digits for the locator, so add leading zeroes when the known number has fewer than nine digits. The biographical route uses identity information shown by the live form. Exact spelling matters, and a person may be recorded under a different form of a name.
- Confirm that ICE, rather than the jail, TDOC, BOP, or another county, was the last known custodian.
- Open ODLS and choose either the A-number route or the biographical route.
- For an A-number search, pad the number with leading zeroes to make nine digits and enter the country of birth.
- For a biographical search, enter the identifying details requested by the current form and review spelling carefully.
- Record the exact result language and check the underlying ICE event before deciding that custody ended.
ODLS does not provide results for people under eighteen. It is also not an unlimited historical archive. ICE explains that the locator covers people currently detained and people released from ICE custody during the prior 60 days. A person who does not appear may fall outside that time span, may not match the entered details, or may be outside the system’s published coverage.
Note: A failed ODLS search does not prove community release, removal, or the absence of prior immigration custody.
Read ICE Release Results
An ICE release result is narrower than it may sound. It reports the end of the custody state represented in the locator. It does not, by itself, distinguish release into the community from removal from the United States or a transfer to another authority. The destination must be obtained from the underlying custody event, immigration case record, or receiving agency.
| Possible result or event | What to verify next |
|---|---|
| Currently detained | Confirm the holding location and the immigration case channel. |
| Released to the community | Request the release event and check for reporting or case obligations. |
| Removal | Obtain the ICE event that identifies departure from the United States. |
| Transfer | Identify the receiving custodian and continue the search in that system. |
| No locator result | Recheck identifiers, age limits, the 60-day window, and the last known agency. |
Do not use the word “release” as a substitute for the actual event. A local jail can release a person to ICE while federal custody begins. ICE can later release that person to another custodian. The only sound conclusion comes from naming each agency in order and finding the record for each handoff.
Trace Marshall ICE Transfers
The Marshall County Jail is the central county detention point. Its official address is 209 North First Avenue, Lewisburg, Tennessee 37091, and its telephone number is 931-359-6122. No official public jail roster or recent-release feed was verified. A person’s disappearance from a current list would therefore be weak evidence even before immigration custody is considered.
Request the booking/release sheet under the Sheriff’s records policy. Identify the person by booked name, approximate booking date, booking or case number when known, and other appropriate details. Ask for release date and time, release type, authorizing record, hold or detainer disposition, and receiving authority. A response naming ICE creates the bridge from the county event to ODLS. A response naming TDOC, BOP, or another county points elsewhere.
The official Sheriff’s Department page supplies the correct local jail contact. For a full person-specific route across all possible custodians, the Marshall County released inmate lookup explains how county, state, and federal records fit together.
- Detainer
- A request or authority used to hold or transfer a person for another agency.
- Receiving authority
- The agency that takes custody after the releasing facility records its departure.
- Removal
- An immigration outcome involving departure from the United States, not ordinary community release.
- Transfer
- Movement between custodians while detention continues.
Note: The Marshall release sheet and the ICE event should identify the same handoff before the custody chain is treated as confirmed.
Request ICE Release Records
ODLS is a discovery tool, not the full release or transfer record. Preserve the locator result, the date and time of the check, the identifiers used, and the exact wording displayed. Then request the underlying ICE event through the official channel appropriate to the person’s immigration matter. Seek an existing record that states the custody end date, disposition, destination, and receiving authority rather than asking the agency to write a new explanation.
A precise request can identify the person by full recorded name, A-number, date of birth where appropriate, and the relevant detention period. Ask for the custody or release event that explains whether the outcome was community release, removal, or transfer. Protected personal, security, or case information may be withheld or redacted. If another authority received the person, its intake record should match the ICE departure.
ICE Detention Record Route
Online locator: ICE Online Detainee Locator System
Coverage: Current detention and prior-60-day ICE releases
Local status: No Marshall County ICE facility or contract verified
Record needed: Underlying custody, release, removal, or transfer event
For a local-to-federal handoff, keep both records. The jail release sheet proves the end of Marshall custody. The ICE record explains what followed. Either record alone can leave a gap when another agency took control.
Separate ICE, BOP, and USMS
ICE, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the United States Marshals Service serve different custody roles. ODLS is the immigration locator. The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 forward and can show a release date or a status such as “Released” or “Not in BOP Custody.” Those labels end only BOP custody. They do not rule out a county jail, immigration detention, or supervision.
The USMS commonly handles federal prisoners before sentence and can use local or contract detention sites that change. It has no comparable public historical release locator in the research. When the Marshals held the person, the federal court docket and relevant district are central. After commitment to BOP, the BOP locator becomes the principal public custody search. An ICE detainer can create another handoff after criminal custody.
| System | Primary purpose | Release limit |
|---|---|---|
| ICE ODLS | Current immigration detention and recent ICE releases | Does not distinguish every release, removal, or transfer outcome. |
| BOP locator | Federal prison custody and release status | Ending BOP custody does not rule out another authority. |
| USMS and federal court | Pretrial or presentence federal custody routing | No equivalent public historical release locator was verified. |
Choose the search from evidence in the last confirmed record. A Marshall arrest does not make ICE, BOP, or USMS the correct source by itself. The detainer, case, sentence, or receiving-authority entry provides that connection.
Confirm ICE Detention Release
A complete confirmation begins with the last known custodian and ends only after every transfer is resolved. For a Marshall County jail case, obtain the county release event first. If ICE is named, search ODLS while the event falls within its covered period and request the underlying federal record. If another agency appears, follow its intake or status record. Check the relevant court file for the legal case, but do not expect a court docket to supply the exact time a detention facility processed departure.
The final conclusion should state the event precisely. “Released from Marshall County Jail to ICE” means county custody ended and immigration custody began. “Released from ICE to the community” describes a different event. “Removed” and “transferred” require their own labels. This wording protects the line between leaving one facility and becoming free of all custody.
Old cases need archival records because ODLS covers only its stated current and recent-release range. A no-result response after 60 days cannot establish what happened. The records chain remains the durable method: county release sheet, receiving-authority record, ICE event, and any later custodian or supervision record.