Dismas Federal Custody Status
Dismas Charities of Midland is a BOP-contracted residential reentry center. It is not Midland County’s release office, a county jail, or a state prison. Federal community confinement can place a person in Midland near the end of a sentence while BOP remains the legal custodian. Home confinement can also remain BOP custody. Physical access to the community therefore does not prove the federal sentence has reached release.
The BOP Inmate Locator is the public status source. An RRM, community-corrections, residential-center, or home-confinement context represents prerelease custody unless BOP records a completed release. RRM San Antonio covers the Western District of Texas and oversees contract reentry placements, including the Midland area. It is an administrative federal route, not a prison located in Midland County.
| BOP result | Careful reading |
|---|---|
| RRM or community corrections | BOP custody continues in a prerelease setting |
| In Transit | Movement within custody, not release |
| Future release date | Projected date that can change |
| Released or Not in BOP Custody | BOP custody ended on the listed date |
| Unknown | The term or date is undetermined, not proof of release |
Confirm a Dismas Release
Search the BOP Inmate Locator with the register number in the form shown by the agency. The register number is the strongest match. A name search can be narrowed by age, race, and sex. Open the correct result and preserve the name, register number, status or location, and release date exactly as labeled.
- Match the register number or several stable identity fields.
- Read location and status before reading the date.
- Treat RRM, community confinement, home confinement, and transit as continuing BOP custody.
- Treat a future date as projected, not completed.
- After BOP reports release, read the federal judgment for supervised release and other orders.
Leaving the Dismas residence is not automatically release from BOP custody. The resident may move to home confinement or another federal placement.
BOP electronic locator data chiefly covers federal inmates released from 1982 forward. Older federal custody can require National Archives research. A federal pretrial detainee managed by the U.S. Marshals Service may not yet have a useful BOP entry, so the Western District of Texas docket is the better first source for that stage.
Dismas Release Record Fields
The public BOP result normally supplies name, register number, age, race, sex, location or status, and a release date. The date must be read with the status. A past date paired with Released or Not in BOP Custody establishes departure from BOP custody. It does not establish that another jurisdiction had no detainer, that all court duties ended, or that federal supervised release ended.
The federal judgment and docket explain the sentence, later court orders, and supervised-release term. Supervised release is court-ordered monitoring after imprisonment, administered through the federal probation system. It is distinct from BOP custody. A person can be released from BOP and still have years of federal supervision. Conversely, a Dismas resident may have broad community movement while still serving the custodial part.
- Community confinement
- A prerelease setting that can remain BOP custody.
- Home confinement
- Service of the custodial term at an approved residence under BOP authority.
- Supervised release
- A separate court-ordered period following imprisonment.
- Register number
- The durable federal identifier used to separate people with similar names.
For records beyond public fields, use the BOP or Department of Justice records process and follow its identity-certification rules. Ask for existing records tied to the register number and a clear date range. The Midland sheriff’s open-records form does not control Dismas or BOP documents.
Dismas Federal Contact Route
No researched exact street address or public release desk was supplied for the variable contract placement, so none should be invented. The BOP locator is the correct public route for custody status. Questions about the federal case belong with the Clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, while records beyond the locator follow BOP or Justice Department procedures.
Dismas Charities of Midland
Federal residential reentry center
BOP-contracted community confinement
Use the BOP locator and register number for public status
RRM San Antonio oversees Western District of Texas contract reentry placements. A locator result naming an RRM should be read as continued federal custody. The office is not a Midland jail and does not create a county release sheet. When BOP shows completed release, the federal docket and U.S. Probation Office are the sources for any supervised-release duties.
Three official channels serve separate needs: the BOP locator reports public custody fields, the BOP community-corrections information explains prerelease placement, and the federal court record states the sentence and supervision. Do not substitute the Midland current-detainee list for any of them.
Dismas Prerelease Date Changes
A BOP date can change. Federal good-conduct time and First Step Act credits are federal rules, not Texas county or TDCJ rules. BOP says an eligible federal prisoner may receive up to 54 days of good-conduct time per year of the sentence imposed. Qualifying First Step Act time credits may apply toward prerelease custody or supervised release, with no more than twelve months of advance placement into supervised release through those credits.
Eligibility, earned credits, sanctions, recalculation, court action, and detainers can alter a projected date or placement. Time in U.S. Marshals custody does not generate First Step Act credits under BOP’s explanation. These details are why an old locator capture or a planned move cannot prove actual release.
A Dismas placement can mark progress toward release without being the release event. State the result in stages: transfer to residential reentry, movement to home confinement, release from BOP custody, then any period of supervised release. Collapsing those stages into one date loses the legal distinction a reader is trying to verify.
Dismas and Midland Transfers
A person arrested in Midland on a federal matter may first be managed by the U.S. Marshals Service, stay in a contract jail, enter a BOP institution, and later reach a residential reentry center. The Marshals Service does not maintain a durable county-style release list. The federal docket explains court action, and BOP becomes the durable public status source once its record applies.
The reverse distinction also matters. A disappearance from Midland County’s jail list after a federal marker may be transfer into federal custody, not arrival at Dismas and not release. Obtain the county receiving-agency field, consult the federal docket, and then search BOP. Do not assign a Dismas placement unless the federal source supports it.
After a true BOP release, another detainer may still transfer the person to a state, local, or immigration authority. “Released from BOP” should therefore remain limited to the fact the locator proves. The Midland released-inmate search explains the separate county path when the episode began at the county jail.
Note: A federal release date is not the end date of supervised release and does not rule out transfer to another lawful custodian.