Western Region Release Records

Releases from Western Region Detention Facility

Western Region Detention Facility is located at 220 West C Street, San Diego, CA 92101. The research identifies GEO Group as the operator for the U.S. Marshals Service, lists phone (619) 232-9221, and notes GEO's capacity figure of 770. It also says the facility has served the U.S. Marshals Service since 2000. Those facts make the release path federal and USMS-centered. A person held there may not appear in San Diego Sheriff's Who's In Jail or CDCR CIRIS because neither system controls USMS pretrial or federal detainee custody.

For released-inmate research, Western Region matters because a person with a federal case in San Diego can be held downtown without ever becoming a county jail release. Release may mean bond, federal court order, transfer to another facility, movement into BOP custody, return to another jurisdiction, or transfer to immigration custody. If a county jail record exists, it is a separate local custody event. The county record cannot prove final federal discharge unless the person was only in county custody and never moved into the federal path.

How to Confirm a Western Region Release

The safest workflow begins with the federal case, not a county search. If the person is a federal defendant or USMS detainee, the federal court docket and counsel may explain whether release came from bond, detention review, sentencing, transfer, dismissal, or designation. The facility can help with immediate custody questions, while BOP becomes useful only after the person is in BOP custody or has a BOP register record.

1. Identify the federal case number, defendant name, date of birth when lawfully available, and counsel or court division if known.
2. Check the federal court docket or contact counsel for custody-related orders, bond status, sentencing, and supervised-release terms.
3. Contact Western Region Detention Facility at (619) 232-9221 for facility-level custody or release-direction questions when appropriate.
4. If the person was designated to BOP, search the BOP Inmate Locator by register number or name. BOP may show "Released" or "Not in BOP Custody" with a release date when available.
5. If the person was transferred to San Diego County jail, CDCR, another county, or ICE, switch to the receiving agency's locator or records channel.
6. If a separate San Diego Sheriff booking exists, use the Sheriff's Who's In Jail lookup while active and Records & ID or the court record after release.

The San Diego County released inmates hub explains the Sheriff's release-record path. For Western Region, that path is secondary and applies only when the person also had a local county custody event.

Western Region Records and Contact

Facility-level questions should start with Western Region Detention Facility and the federal case source. The research gives the facility address and phone. Formal federal records may require the court docket, counsel, BOP records, or other federal processes. The San Diego Sheriff's Records & ID Division is not the custodian of USMS release records, but it can be relevant if the same person was separately arrested or booked by a local agency.

About Western Region Detention Facility

Western Region Detention Facility is a federal contract detention facility, not a county jail. The operator and client information in the research are important because they prevent a common error: sending federal detainee families to the county jail roster. The facility is downtown, near federal court activity, and serves a federal custody function. A released person may have no San Diego Sheriff's release record at all.

BOP, USMS, and Federal Court

BOP and USMS are related but not identical for public release searching. BOP's Inmate Locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and can show "Released" or "Not in BOP Custody." USMS pretrial or transport custody may not create the same public BOP locator result until the person is designated or otherwise appears in BOP's system. That is why the court docket and counsel can be more useful for Western Region than a name-only BOP search.

If BOP does show a result, treat the wording narrowly. "Released" or "Not in BOP Custody" means no longer in BOP custody, but BOP warns that release dates can be affected by recalculations and that another system or supervision may still exist. The federal court record can explain supervised release, probation, or conditions, while an immigration or state detainer may require a different agency search.

County and ICE Overlap

San Diego release research often crosses county, federal, and immigration systems. A person may move from a Sheriff's jail to federal custody, from Western Region to BOP, or from federal custody to ICE. The research highlights the practical San Diego angle that "released from county jail" may mean transferred to ICE rather than released to the community. That same caution applies to federal custody. Always verify the receiving agency before describing the outcome.

For ICE custody, use ICE ODLS, facility contact, counsel, and immigration court. ICE ODLS is for people currently in ICE custody or in CBP custody more than 48 hours. USA.gov says it can be searched by A-number and country of birth or by name, country of birth, and birth date. For county custody, use the Sheriff and Superior Court. For state prison, use CDCR CIRIS.

No County Recent-Release Shortcut

The research did not find a San Diego Sheriff public 24-hour or 72-hour released-inmate feed, and that point is even more important for Western Region because it is not a Sheriff's facility. A federal detainee will not become searchable just because the county page exists. If an online search fails, move to the federal court file, facility contact, BOP if applicable, counsel, and receiving-agency records.

If a local arrest preceded the federal case, the Sheriff's Records & ID Division may have a county booking or arrest report. That county record can show when the person left Sheriff's custody. It does not replace the federal court order or USMS/BOP custody record for the later release.

Responsible Use of Western Region Records

Federal custody information can be incomplete, delayed, corrected, or limited by law. Verify with the federal court, counsel, facility, BOP, or receiving agency before relying on a release result.

A federal detention record is not a complete agency file. Avoid commercial mugshot and pay-to-remove sites. Use official records channels and keep county, state, federal, and immigration custody systems separate.