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Pennsylvania DOC Beaver Transfers

The current PA DOC state-prison directory identifies no state correctional institution in Beaver County. State-sentenced people from Beaver cases can be assigned anywhere the department designates. PA DOC says male entrants are processed through SCI Camp Hill, but that is an intake path, not a promise of permanent placement.

When Beaver County Jail records a transfer to DOC, county custody has ended but incarceration has not. The Beaver commitment and jail movement entry identify the handoff. The statewide locator then becomes the proper live source. Transfers between state institutions also remain custody events, not releases.

Search PA DOC Beaver Records

The PA DOC Inmate and Department Supervised Individual Locator has two current-population searches. Use Inmate Locator for people in state facilities. Use Department Supervised Individual Locator for people under DOC field supervision, including state parole. Neither side is a complete historical list of everyone once held or released.

1. Choose the inmate or supervised-person search that matches the expected status.
2. Enter the DOC inmate or parole number when known for the strongest match.
3. Otherwise search a name and use Beaver as committing county to narrow results.
4. Open the record and compare identifiers, current location or district, and displayed dates.
5. Verify parole through the Board Action and actual release through the DOC record.

The interface supports first, middle, and last name; inmate or parole number; gender; committing county; current location; citizenship; and date of birth or approximate age. Name-only matches can collide. DOC advises broadening a failed narrow search, such as trying the last name alone.

The official interface shows the separate populations and search fields:

Open the Pennsylvania DOC locator and select the correct search side.

The choice between inmate and supervised status is essential because each side answers a different custody question.

Read Pennsylvania Release Dates

A supervised-person detail can include an inmate or parole number, age or birth date, physical descriptors, committing county, current or permanent location, district information, a Release Date label, and last update. DOC notes that some core agency fields are verified while other information can originate elsewhere. Compare identifiers and read the live disclaimer before relying on a descriptor.

Do not relabel every date as projected release. Pennsylvania sentences commonly contain minimum and maximum terms. The minimum is ordinarily the first parole-eligibility point, not a release promise. The maximum is sentence expiration, subject to lawful recalculation. The public locator does not advertise a general Projected Release Date field for every inmate.

Minimum date

The ordinary earliest parole eligibility milestone.

Maximum date

The sentence-expiration point after valid calculation.

Board grant

Parole authority that may still have prerequisites.

Actual release date

The recorded event when physical state custody changed.

Discharge

The end of the sentence or supervision obligation.

Note: Pennsylvania expressly rejects the claim that every state prisoner must serve 85 percent of the maximum before parole.

Verify Pennsylvania State Parole

The Pennsylvania Parole Board makes state parole decisions, while PA DOC provides field supervision. A favorable Board Action may require program completion, an approved home plan, detainer resolution, or another condition before physical release. A denial continues confinement. A deferral delays decision, and rescission withdraws a prior grant before release.

No official public name-search of individual Board Actions was found. The person receives the decision document. When a lawful copy is available, read its exact terms. Questions can go through the Pennsylvania Parole Board contact route. Public Board meeting calendars are agency meetings, not person-by-person parole hearing calendars.

After release, the supervised-person side can show a district or permanent location and a release date. It is a strong current status check. Still, the locator cannot prove an older maximum discharge when the person has fallen outside both current inmate and supervised populations. For that case, use the sentencing docket, Board record if relevant, and DOC release or discharge documentation.

Pennsylvania DOC Records Contact

State release records belong to Pennsylvania DOC, not Beaver County. Use the PA DOC Right-to-Know page and agency form. Identify the DOC number, name, and date range. Ask for the release-status or discharge record and any specific public institutional photograph needed for identity matching.

PA DOC policy DC-ADM 003 governs release of information. Request nonexempt portions and accept redaction. A locator screenshot is informational, not a certified record. Beaver County’s open-records form is not the right form for a state DOC release record, though it remains appropriate for the sending county jail movement entry.

When the issue concerns what the Beaver court ordered, use the UJS docket and Clerk of Courts. The commitment can show place and term of confinement. The DOC calculation and release record show how the state implemented that order.

Pennsylvania Sentence Rules

Under 42 Pa.C.S. § 9756, a sentencing court sets minimum and maximum total confinement, subject to statutory exceptions. Section 9760 addresses credit for time spent in custody, and § 9762 addresses place of confinement. These rules help explain why a Beaver County sentence can become a state DOC placement outside Beaver County.

Under 61 Pa.C.S. § 6137, the Parole Board generally cannot release a person before the court-fixed minimum. Ordinary parole remains discretionary. Life and death sentences fall outside ordinary parole authority. Short Sentence Parole under § 6137.1 has defined eligibility and exclusions; it is not automatic for every short sentence.

RRRI under 61 Pa.C.S. Chapter 45 can create an alternative minimum for eligible, certified people. The sentencing court imposes a regular minimum and RRRI minimum. DOC must certify required programming and adjustment, and the Board still applies legal standards. Beaver County Jail’s local good-time rule cannot be plugged into the state RRRI formula, because DOC states county adjustment does not apply to the relevant state review.

Pennsylvania Discharge Search Gaps

The locator’s population definition creates a major limit. It covers people currently under DOC jurisdiction or supervision. Someone released to state parole can remain visible. Someone who reaches full discharge can disappear from both sides. That makes a no-result weak evidence for older cases.

Start older Beaver cases with the UJS criminal docket. Confirm the commitment, minimum and maximum terms, credit orders, parole or revocation entries, and later modifications. Then request the state release or discharge record. Sealed, expunged, and limited-access cases may not appear publicly, so the court search also has limits.

PA SAVIN can provide release, transfer, movement, or escape alerts for state prisons and state parole. It is useful for a pending event, but it is not a certified historical discharge archive. A notification from one agency should be checked against the current DOC status.

Beaver State Release Evidence

For a Beaver-to-state transfer, pair the county movement entry with the DOC inmate result. For state parole, pair the supervised-person result and release date with the individual Board Action and DOC record. For maximum discharge, rely on DOC release or discharge documentation and the sentence calculation.

The Beaver County released-inmate search explains when to begin locally. If the county record says PA DOC, move to the state route described here. The Beaver County Jail release page explains how to obtain the sending movement record.

System boundaries matter. PA DOC does not cover a person whose only custody was Beaver County Jail. Conversely, a county call cannot establish a state parole release that occurred later from an SCI. Name the custodian, the event, and the record that can prove it.