LCCF Release Destinations
Lebanon County Correctional Facility is a county prison and short-term confinement site. It holds people awaiting case resolution who have not posted bail, people serving local sentences, probation or parole violators, and some state or federal prisoners brought to Lebanon for court. Those different custody groups do not share one exit path. A person may leave for the community after bail, recognizance, dismissal, time served, sentence expiration, county parole, or another court order. Someone else may leave the building for a state prison, another county, federal custody, ICE custody, a treatment institution, or a court writ.
The destination is vital. A transfer ends the LCCF placement but continues custody elsewhere. Work release is also not discharge. It permits approved movement for work while the participant remains an inmate. Even a court order that authorizes release may not mark the moment the person crosses the gate because another case, detainer, or processing step can intervene.
“Out of LCCF” does not by itself mean released to the community; obtain the disposition or destination tied to the movement.
Confirm an LCCF Release
Lebanon County has no verified official live jail roster, person-level release search, recent-release archive, or jail app. A named search therefore works best as a chain of checks. Each source answers a different question, and no-result evidence is weak.
- Review the court case. Use the UJS Case Search, choose a participant-name search, filter the county to Lebanon, and open the matching criminal docket. Check bail, disposition, sentence, confinement, probation or parole, and later orders.
- Check the custody event. Search Pennsylvania in VINELink and match more than the name. PA SAVIN may report release, transfer, movement, or escape, but its public retention period is not documented.
- Ask the facility. Call LCCF and request whatever current custody-status information staff may lawfully disclose. A phone answer can resolve an urgent question, though it may not create a lasting written record.
- Request the existing record. Ask the County Open Records Officer for records sufficient to show the actual release date and time, disposition or destination, and release authority for the identified commitment.
The docket is good evidence of legal authority, not a gate log. PA SAVIN is designed for notice, not permanent history. A facility movement or discharge entry is the strongest county-side evidence of the physical event, while a written Right-to-Know response creates a durable result. The broader Lebanon County released inmate search explains how the same sources fit state and federal cases.
LCCF Release Record Contact
Direct same-day questions to the facility. The official Lebanon County Prison System page provides the facility identity and document route. Written access requests go through Lebanon County rather than the Sheriff, whose official duties center on courts, warrants, transport, extradition, civil process, and licensing.
Lebanon County Correctional Facility
Operator: County of Lebanon Prison System
Warden: Tina Litz
Address: 730 E. Walnut St., Lebanon, PA 17042
Phone: 717-274-5451
Fax: 717-274-1338
Office hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For an enduring record, use the county’s Right-to-Know route and contact County Open Records Officer Matthew Bugli, County Solicitor, at recordsofficer@lebanoncountypa.gov. Mail or deliver the request to Lebanon County Commissioners, Room 207, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042-6794. The office phone is 717-228-4427, fax is 717-274-8094, and weekday hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Older county material used a different email domain, so confirm delivery when timing matters.
Request an LCCF Discharge Record
Identify one person and one confinement as precisely as possible. Include the full committed name, date of birth, booking or inmate number if known, and the commitment date. Ask for existing records rather than asking staff to research why a person left or to create a new list.
Records sufficient to show the commitment date, actual physical release or discharge date and time, release destination or disposition, and authority for the identified confinement, plus the associated booking photograph if maintained and subject to disclosure.
Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law generally gives a local agency five business days to respond or invoke an extension. The county form includes a fee-notification ceiling and allows a request for electronic copies or inspection. The Office of Open Records fee schedule controls ordinary duplication unless another law applies. No special LCCF release-record or photo fee was verified. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, security, personal-identification, or investigative content may be withheld or redacted, and the county need not create a record that it does not maintain.
Lebanon County Jail Custody
Sentence length helps identify the next system. County guidance says terms under two years are served at LCCF. Terms from two years to less than five may be placed at LCCF or a state institution at the judge’s discretion. Maximum terms of five years or more go to the state system. This allocation tracks 42 Pa.C.S. § 9762.
If an LCCF record says the person transferred to state prison, search the PA DOC Inmate Locator after allowing time for intake. Use inmate mode, not the county-jail path. A person released from a state prison to active state parole may instead appear in the Department Supervised Individual Locator. Neither result establishes an LCCF community discharge, and absence from both modes proves nothing. Pennsylvania DOC expressly excludes people held only in county facilities.
The county’s April 2026 Prison Board statistics illustrate the divide. They reported 216 releases and listed 11 transfers to state prison separately. Those totals show local turnover, but they contain no names, individual dates, times, photos, or release reasons. They cannot be turned into a daily release list.
LCCF Work Release Is Custody
A judge may recommend work release, but LCCF classification follows. Approval rules and exclusions still apply. A participant may leave for authorized work yet remains confined under the facility’s control. The handbook states that working participants are charged 20 percent of gross pay, subject to a weekly floor of $70 and ceiling of $150.
County reports can use wording such as “removed/released from Work Release Program.” That phrase describes program status. It does not necessarily record discharge from Lebanon County Correctional Facility. Check the underlying jail movement and court record before calling it a community release. A temporary pass, program removal, institutional transfer, and final discharge are four separate events.
LCCF also describes work detail, drug and alcohol services, education, Jubilee Ministries, counseling, and inmate-account vendors. These programs and vendors support people during confinement or transition. They do not publish an official roster or certify release.
LCCF Release Money and Property
The official LCCF inmate handbook gives unusually specific discharge rules. Available account funds may first be applied to an outstanding balance. Remaining money is issued by debit card. When the person transfers to another correctional or treatment facility, the balance may instead be sent by discharge check. Any debt left after discharge is invoiced, with follow-up described when payment or a plan is not arranged within 30 days. A later invoice or collections entry is a financial record, not evidence that the person remains in custody.
Property follows a separate process. While confined, a person may authorize someone else to collect belongings by submitting a request slip with the collector’s name and phone number. The collector must show identification and sign. Excess property generally must be removed within 30 days after notice. LCCF says stored property is not mailed or forwarded to another detention facility after a transfer.
The handbook also says original non-official mail is archived and destroyed two years after discharge. That narrow rule applies to mail. It does not establish how long a release entry, booking image, or public result is kept.
LCCF Release to ICE
A county record may use release language when LCCF hands a person to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That is a custody transfer, not proof the person entered the Lebanon community. An ICE detainer asks the jail to notify ICE before release and may request a hold of up to 48 hours so the federal agency can assume custody.
When the disposition names ICE, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. It accepts a nine-digit A-number with country of birth, or an exact name with country of birth and optional date of birth. The system includes current detainees and some people released from ICE custody within roughly 60 days. Minors are excluded, records can lag, and some people do not appear. Therefore, an ODLS no-result cannot convert an LCCF handoff into a community discharge.
LCCF Release Pickup Details
No official source states a routine LCCF release hour, exit door, weekend or holiday schedule, family waiting point, taxi rule, rideshare rule, or guaranteed bus stop. Lebanon Transit maps service in the east Lebanon and East Walnut area, but the map does not promise service at the jail entrance.
Confirm the expected date, pickup place, property process, and travel plan directly with LCCF before going to the site. Ask Lebanon Transit about the current route and nearest usable stop. A court date, expected sentence end, or PA SAVIN event should not be treated as a promise that a person will be ready at a set gate or hour.