FCI Herlong Release Search

Releases from FCI Herlong

Federal Correctional Institution Herlong is a BOP facility at 741-925 Access Road A-25 in Herlong, California. Its presence in Lassen County creates a common search mistake: a person released from FCI Herlong is not automatically a Lassen County jail release. BOP, not the Lassen County Sheriff's Office, is the primary source for federal prison custody and release status. CDCR also does not verify a BOP release unless the person separately enters California state-prison custody.

The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present. Search results can show name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, facility if in custody, or a status such as Released or Not in BOP Custody when the person is no longer in BOP custody. BOP cautions that no current BOP custody does not prove the person is free from every other system. The person may be in another correctional system, on federal supervision, in immigration detention, in state or local custody, or subject to court orders.

A BOP release date is a federal custody marker. If the person was federally arrested but not yet designated to BOP, the U.S. Marshals Service may have custody during the pretrial stage. USMS explains that federal pretrial prisoners may be housed in federal, state, local, or private facilities and that the court decides release on bond or remand after initial appearances. That means a person can be connected to a local jail during a federal case without the local jail being the final release-date source.

How to Confirm a Federal Release

Start with the BOP locator when the person has been sentenced to federal custody or assigned to FCI Herlong. Use the register number whenever possible because names can collide across a national database.

1. Open the BOP Inmate Locator at bop.gov/inmateloc.
2. Search by register number if known. If not, search by name and narrow by age, race, or sex when the interface provides those filters.
3. Read the facility field. FCI Herlong means current BOP custody at that facility; another facility means the person is elsewhere in BOP.
4. Read the release-date or status field. Released or Not in BOP Custody means no current BOP facility is displayed, not that every possible hold is cleared.
5. If the person is in a pending federal case and no BOP record appears, check federal court status or USMS custody context because BOP may not yet be the supervising custody agency.
6. If the person left BOP but may have an immigration hold, search ICE ODLS at locator.ice.gov/odls.
7. If the person was also booked in Lassen County, separately check the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, the court portal, and sheriff records request path.

BOP also warns that projected release dates can change because sentence review and recalculation may occur, including First Step Act credit issues. For that reason, a release date should be verified close to the event and understood as a federal BOP date, not a county jail release record.

FCI Herlong Records and Contact

The public research path is the BOP locator and federal records, with court or USMS context for pretrial custody. The research source identifies FCI Herlong's address, but the BOP locator is the practical release-search tool. For formal records, use the appropriate federal agency or court process rather than a county CPRA request.

If the person was released by a federal judge before BOP designation, the docket and federal court order may explain the release better than the BOP locator. If the person was held in a local jail for USMS before or during a federal case, local jail records may show that housing event, but the federal case still controls the federal release decision.

About FCI Herlong

FCI Herlong is a federal prison with a satellite camp. Its records are part of the federal correctional system. That makes it different from the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, which handles county jail bookings, and from High Desert State Prison, which is a CDCR institution. A searcher who uses the wrong system can get a false negative: the person may be released from BOP even though no Lassen County jail page ever listed the federal prison stay.

After a BOP Release

A federal release can be followed by supervised release, probation-like federal supervision, transfer to another agency, immigration detention, state custody, or return to the community. The BOP locator's Released or Not in BOP Custody status is a strong federal custody signal, but it is not a complete supervision record. For a complete picture, pair the BOP result with the federal case docket, any supervision order, and any other custody database indicated by the facts.

For Lassen County work, check local records only when there is a local event: a county arrest, a warrant, local charges, a jail housing arrangement, or a court appearance in Lassen Superior Court. The sheriff's jail records cannot certify the end of a federal sentence at FCI Herlong, and BOP cannot certify the outcome of a later local jail booking. Treat each custody system as its own record trail.

Holds, Transfers, and Local Records

A federal release search should also ask whether another agency received the person. If a BOP sentence ends but an ICE detainer, state warrant, county warrant, or court order exists, the BOP status may change while the person still has another custody or supervision issue. The research file does not confirm a dedicated Lassen ICE release feed, so immigration detention should be checked through ICE ODLS only when the facts suggest an immigration transfer or hold.

The same caution applies to USMS prisoners. Federal pretrial custody can pass through local, state, federal, or private facilities before BOP designation. If a local Lassen booking appears during that period, request the local jail release record for that jail event and use the federal docket or USMS context for the federal case. The safest record chain is chronological: local booking if any, federal court order, USMS custody if pretrial, BOP custody after designation, and any post-BOP transfer or supervision record.