Where Hyde Correctional Releases Go
Hyde Correctional Institution is a male, minimum-custody state prison operated by NCDAC. A person housed there is serving or otherwise subject to a state correctional sentence, not merely held on a routine county booking. The official departure record therefore flows through NCDAC. Calling the Hyde County Jail about that state sentence would reach the wrong custodian.
A departure from Hyde Correctional Institution can lead to the community, another NCDAC prison, another authority, or supervision outside prison. A location change to a different institution is a transfer. It does not end incarceration. When a community release occurs, NCDAC history may show Inmate Status as inactive and supply an Actual Release Date. Probation, parole, or post-release status may remain active at the same time.
That dual status is not a contradiction. “Inactive” in the incarceration panel means the named prison custody has ended. It does not automatically mean all correctional oversight has ended. Read the sentence history, actual release date, release type, current location, and separate supervision panel together. The agency and offender number should remain attached to every saved conclusion.
Confirm a Hyde Correctional Release
The NCDAC Offender Search is the correct public starting point. Its records cover people who served an NCDAC prison sentence or had Community Supervision histories from 1972 forward. The database expressly excludes local city and county jail information, which is why a Hyde County Jail release requires a different route.
- Select “All” when the custody outcome is uncertain, or “Inactive” for a concluded state incarceration.
- Enter the last name and narrow with first or middle name, date of birth, or other known details.
- Use the seven-digit offender number whenever available and never match on name alone.
- Open the detail and compare Inmate Status with Probation/Parole/Post Release Status.
- Read the sentence history for Projected Release Date, Actual Release Date, offense, docket, and location information.
The dedicated NCDAC Inmate Release Search is a second state route. It accepts a last name or a release county, year, and month. Selecting HYDE can locate recent state-prison releases attributed to Hyde as the release county. That classification does not mean the person left Hyde County Jail, and the month-level tool cannot establish an hourly county release.
Hyde Correctional Search Fields
NCDAC provides several ways to narrow a state offender search. Start with the most durable identifier, then use personal details only as needed to separate similar names. Soundex can help locate spelling variants, but it is not an identity match by itself.
| Field | Use in a Hyde release check |
|---|---|
| Status filter | Choose All, Active Inmate, Active Probationer/Parolee, or Inactive. |
| Offender number | Use the seven-digit NCDAC identifier as the strongest join key. |
| Name and Soundex | Search exact names or spelling variants, then verify other identifiers. |
| Date of birth or age | Narrow the result through an exact date, range, or age range. |
| Gender, race, ethnic group | Use carefully as additional matching fields, not sole proof. |
| Release history | Compare projected and actual dates plus the recorded release type. |
The public detail can also list conviction, admission, sentence, location, offense, and docket information, plus a photograph in some records. A photograph is an NCDAC correctional image. It should not be described as the local Hyde County booking photo, and no claim should be made that every offender detail includes one.
Note: Record the offender number and check time so a later NCDAC status change can be compared with the same person.
Hyde Correctional Records Contact
The official facility contact can confirm general routing, but documentary release data belongs in NCDAC’s central record process. A requester should identify the offender number, record type, and event. NCDAC lists admission and release dates, time served, sentence length, and conviction information as basic public data, while other prison and supervision material may be confidential.
Hyde Correctional Institution620 Prison Road
Fairfield, NC 27826
Mailing: P.O. Box 278, Swan Quarter, NC 27885
Phone: 252-926-1810
For an existing state record, use the NCDAC online public-records request. Electronic copies are normally available, but the agency may redact protected information, process large requests in batches, and decline to create a record or format that does not exist. A records request documents a past event; it is not the fastest tool for a live custody check.
Questions about a Hyde County arrest, local release sheet, or Sheriff booking belong with the county jail. The Hyde County release-record search path separates those county, state, court, VINE, federal, and immigration channels.
Hyde Correctional Prison Profile
The official NCDAC facility page lists Hyde Correctional Institution as a 648-capacity, male, minimum-custody prison. Capacity is an institutional figure, not the current population or a yearly release count. It helps establish the facility’s scale and underscores why “Hyde inmate” can refer to a state system that is very different from the local jail.
The official Hyde Correctional Institution profile is the source for its identity, contact information, custody level, capacity, and history.
The image supports the prison’s current state-facility profile. It should not be used to imply that a named person is incarcerated or released.
Hyde Correctional Release History
Hyde Correctional Institution opened as a medium-custody prison in 1997. A minimum-custody unit followed in 1999. In 2019, the institution became wholly minimum custody. These changes explain why older records may describe a custody level different from the facility’s current official designation.
The history also creates a useful record rule. Facility classification at the time of a sentence should not be inferred from today’s page. Use the dated NCDAC incarceration and location history for the person’s actual stay. Likewise, a modern minimum-custody label says nothing by itself about a person’s release date, earned credit, or supervision.
The scale difference within Hyde County is distinctive. Hyde Correctional Institution’s stated capacity is far larger than Hyde County Jail’s rated capacity of 32. Searchers should identify whether the record arose from the state prison in Fairfield or the Sheriff’s jail in Swan Quarter before interpreting a release.
Note: Historical custody designations belong to their dates; the current official profile describes the prison as it operates now.
Hyde Projected and Actual Release
NCDAC’s exact future-date label is Projected Release Date. It reflects the sentence and credit information available when the system calculated it. It is not a promise of physical departure. Sentence correction, resentencing, credit adjustment, disciplinary loss, assignment change, and transfer can move a projection.
| Record item | What it establishes |
|---|---|
| Projected Release Date | An estimate based on the state sentence and then-current credit information. |
| Actual Release Date | The recorded event that ended the identified state incarceration. |
| Current location | Whether a prison move may have been a transfer instead of a release. |
| Supervision status | Whether probation, parole, or post-release oversight remains active. |
Structured Sentencing rules generally apply to offenses committed on or after October 1, 1994, but older sentencing regimes differ. Do not compute a release date with a generic percentage. NCDAC and the governing judgment supply the official calculation. Once the event occurs, compare the projection with Actual Release Date rather than treating the earlier estimate as history.
Hyde Release or Prison Transfer
A transfer out of Hyde Correctional Institution keeps the person within custody when another prison or authority accepts them. Check the current location and later admission event. NC SAVAN/VINELink may issue a custody-change notice, but “Out of Custody” remains specific to the reporting custodian and may not explain the receiving agency.
A community release can lead directly to post-release supervision. In NCDAC, inactive incarceration and active Probation/Parole/Post Release Status can appear in one record. Post-release supervision means correctional oversight in the community after prison. Parole is a conditional release available under the applicable sentence law, while probation is a court-ordered community sentence or condition.
If federal or immigration involvement is supported by the case, check the receiving system. BOP covers federal prison history, ICE ODLS covers immigration detention within its scope, and USMS handles many federal pretrial and transport stages without a public nationwide locator. Each result proves only the named custodian’s status.
Keep a short custody timeline: agency, facility, exact status text, event date, release or transfer type, receiving agency, offender number, and time checked. This preserves what each source says and keeps a state prison departure from being overstated.
Note: An NCDAC release event can end incarceration while probation, parole, or post-release supervision remains active in the community.