Locate Metro West Releases

Metro West Release Paths

Metro West Detention Center is operated by Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation. A person housed there can leave MDCR through a court-authorized community release, sentence completion, monitored release, probation, or transfer. Metro West’s location field identifies where the person was housed. It does not, by itself, state the legal meaning of departure.

A sentenced person may be transported from Metro West to the Florida Department of Corrections. That person has left the county jail but remains incarcerated. Transfers to another county, federal authorities, or ICE work the same way: the MDCR custody episode closes while a new agency assumes control. The county release transaction and the receiving record must be read as a chain.

Verify Metro West Release

For a recent county event, use the official MDCR inmate search and select its released-within-72-hours option. This rolling view is not a Metro West-specific archive. Match the person by identifying details and preserve the jail or booking number. A new release may not appear at once, and a removed current record can also reflect transfer.

A careful check has six parts:

1. Use the MDCR search FAQ to reach the recent-release option.
2. Compare the full name and available booking fields.
3. Call Inmate Information at 786-263-7000 or Release at 786-263-5360 if the result is unclear.
4. Check Florida VINE for the reporting agency and custody-status event.
5. Read the Miami-Dade Clerk docket for the order, sentence, bond, or disposition.
6. Request the MDCR booking and release transaction for an older or detailed record.

When a state sentence appears in the court record, search FDC after intake processing. The statewide record, not a county roster, will show the state location and later out-custody date. The main Miami-Dade release records resource lays out these separate county, state, and federal channels.

Metro West Releases Use TGK

Miami-Dade centralizes completed county releases at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. A person last held at Metro West is transported through the MDCR process and exits at the front TGK “Inmate Release Area.” The county states that releases occur from 6 a.m. through 9 p.m. without regard to whether personal transportation is waiting.

This rule matters for both record interpretation and pickup plans. The roster can correctly name Metro West as the detention site while TGK is the physical exit. Bond or a court event does not supply an exact walk-out time. MDCR warns that its verification and processing steps may take several hours.

The Miami-Dade release process explains the centralized exit and the posted signs. Its captured page appears below.

The screenshot helps identify the pickup route, but it is not proof that a named person completed release.

Note: Metro West is the detention facility; TGK is the published physical exit for a completed MDCR community release.

Metro West Records Request

Ask MDCR Central Records for the booking and release transaction when the 72-hour listing is gone or a precise account is needed. Include full name, date of birth, jail number when known, and booking date. Request the custody-history entry, effective release date and time, release type or authority, and transfer destination or hold if nonexempt. These are existing fields. The office is not required to create a new explanation.

The online corrections-record request can be tracked. Published fees are 15 cents for a one-sided standard page, 20 cents double-sided, and $1 per certified or color page, plus delivery. Processing beyond 20 minutes may add labor, and advance partial payment may be required. No universal turnaround is promised.

The court docket supplies the judgment or order behind the transaction. If state prison followed, the FDC record supplies receipt, location history, Release Date, and Date Out-Custody. Using all three avoids asking one custodian to prove events owned by another.

Metro West Release Contacts

Metro West is located at 13850 NW 41st Street, Miami, Florida 33178. Its main number is 786-263-5110. The facility line can address local information, while Release at 786-263-5360 handles the current county transaction. Central Records supplies copies.

The official MDCR directory is the source for the active facility addresses and unit numbers shown in this capture.

The directory routes live questions. A named person’s release record still must come from the recent search, Release Unit, records office, or court.

Metro West Transfer Evidence

A state-prison transfer should be followed with the FDC Corrections Offender Network. County-only detention does not create an FDC record, so allow for state intake and matching by DC number when available. A current FDC population result shows continued state custody. A later Inmate Release Information result uses Release Date and Date Out-Custody to confirm departure from FDC, while the Supervised Population search can show ongoing probation, parole, conditional release, or other community supervision.

Federal custody requires the BOP locator or, for some pretrial placements, the Southern District of Florida docket and U.S. Marshals information. A missing BOP entry alone does not prove release because USMS uses contract facilities. Each transfer should be traced in the system that received the person.

Identifiers make the chain more reliable. Preserve the MDCR jail number and Miami-Dade case number before moving to the DC number, federal register number, or immigration A-number. Those agency numbers help separate people with the same name and connect an initial county record to the next custody system. Location and date must also agree.

For a BOP result, a past release date with “Released” or no institution establishes only the end of BOP custody. Court-ordered federal supervision or custody under another sovereign may still follow. A state-prison release date likewise does not end a separate supervision term. Each locator has a defined scope.

Release

The end of a defined agency custody episode.

Discharge

The completion of custody or supervision shown by the responsible agency.

Detainer

A request from another authority concerning custody when the local basis ends.

Metro West Record Fields

A useful Metro West release file answers four questions: which booking episode ended, when it ended, whose authority controlled the event, and what followed. Ask for the full name, date of birth, jail number, release date and time, release type or disposition, authorizing court or agency, custody-history entry, and transfer destination or hold when nonexempt.

The short online listing may not display every field. It works best as a finding aid for the right person and booking event. The MDCR response is the agency account of the custody transaction. The Clerk docket adds the judicial act behind a bond, dismissal, sentence, probation order, or transfer.

A certified document is stronger when the exact result matters. The Clerk can provide the official order or disposition, while MDCR can provide its agency record. Neither custodian should be asked to create an analysis it does not maintain.

Metro West Releases to ICE

The daily MDCR jail report includes immigration holds and detainers. If Metro West’s transaction identifies ICE as the destination, county custody ended without proving a community return. Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System next. Search by nine-digit A-number and country of birth, or exact name and country of birth.

ICE states that ODLS contains current detainees and people released from ICE custody during the prior 60 days. The result must still be paired with release paperwork, ERO information, or immigration-court status. Leaving ICE may mean conditional release, transfer, or removal. Those outcomes should not be flattened into one generic release label.

The ICE window is longer than Miami-Dade’s recent-release view, yet it is still temporary. An expired public display does not mean the event never happened. Request the MDCR destination field and consult ICE or immigration-court sources when the dates fall outside the public windows.

Note: The MDCR and ICE records mark two separate custody episodes, even when one transfer connects them on the same day.

Metro West Final Confirmation

Keep the booking number with any saved result. It connects the recent listing, requested transaction, and court case to the same custody episode.