Locate Prairieland Detention Releases

Prairieland Custody Outcomes

Prairieland Detention Facility is at 1209 Sunflower Lane in Alvarado and falls within ICE Dallas Enforcement and Removal Operations coverage. The City of Alvarado owns the site, and LaSalle operates it under a federal arrangement. Those operator details matter because the public custody route is federal. Johnson County court and jail tools do not serve as the ICE locator merely because the building is inside Johnson County.

Four outcomes require separate words. Continued detention means ICE still holds the person at Prairieland or another location. Transfer means ICE or another authority moved the person. Release means departure from immigration detention, sometimes under conditions. Removal means departure from the United States. A county-jail transfer into Prairieland is none of those later outcomes; it only proves that county custody ended and a federal phase may have begun.

Search Prairieland Detainee Status

The ICE Online Detainee Locator System offers two search routes. The stronger route uses the A-number and country of birth. A name route requires exact first and last name, country of birth, and date of birth. Minors are omitted. Accurate spelling and the correct country are critical because a blank result can reflect mismatched information rather than release.

ODLS covers current ICE detainees and people released from ICE custody during a limited recent period, described in the research as roughly 60 days. A no-match result can also reflect lag, transfer, an older release, custody outside the locator’s scope, or the age restriction. Treat it as a prompt to verify, not proof that the person is free or was removed.

1. Use the A-number route when that identifier is lawfully available; otherwise use exact identity fields.
2. Record the location and status exactly as ICE reports them. Do not shorten transfer, release, or removal into one label.
3. If Prairieland appears, call the facility and provide full names, aliases, date of birth, and country of birth as the official facility guidance requests.
4. Use Dallas ERO or immigration-case records for a case-specific inquiry that ODLS does not resolve.
5. For an older or disputed event, request ICE records through the federal FOIA channel.

Prairieland Records and Contact

Facility staff can address current identity and case inquiries within disclosure limits. The official Prairieland facility page asks callers to provide full names, aliases, date of birth, and country of birth. These identifiers reduce false matches. The page places Prairieland within Dallas ERO operations, which supplies the next federal route when a simple locator result is not enough.

An ICE FOIA request can seek custody, transfer, or release records that are not available through the recent public window. Immigration-court material may explain legal proceedings, but a court filing does not always prove physical departure time. Ask for existing movement records and keep the response tied to the exact person and A-number.

If the chain began at Johnson County Corrections, request that booking’s actual departure time, movement code and legend, and receiving agency if recorded and public. The Sheriff record proves the county event. ICE evidence proves the federal event. One should not be used as a substitute for the other.

Johnson County to Prairieland

Prairieland produces Johnson County’s most important release ambiguity. A person can leave the county jail yet remain confined inside Johnson County. First ask Johnson County Corrections whether the specific booking ended and whether the movement record names ICE or Prairieland. Then determine whether ICE actually took custody. A detainer by itself is a notice or request, not proof of pickup.

Under 8 C.F.R. section 287.7, the detainer requests that a law-enforcement agency maintain custody for no more than 48 hours beyond the time the person otherwise would be released, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. That rule describes the request. It does not establish that ICE arrived, where the person went, or what happened later.

Two confirmations are needed. The county movement entry establishes the end of Johnson custody. ODLS, Prairieland or ERO response, case material, or ICE records establish the federal phase. If ODLS later reports a release, that means release from ICE detention within the tool’s terms. It does not rule out another custodian or answer every question about conditions.

Note: Keep the county departure date and the later ICE outcome as separate dated entries, even when both facilities are in Johnson County.

Prairieland Versus Other Federal Custody

ICE custody differs from BOP imprisonment and USMS detention. BOP’s locator covers federal prisoners released after 1982 and can show a Release Date and Location such as “RELEASED.” It is the proper route for a BOP sentence, not for ordinary Prairieland immigration detention. A past BOP date still does not prove another authority did not assume custody.

The U.S. Marshals Service handles federal pretrial, court, and transportation custody and may use local, state, private, or federal beds. It has no general public historical release locator comparable to BOP. Before BOP designation, use the federal docket, the actual holding facility, and the Northern District of Texas USMS contact. When ICE is the custodian, return to ODLS and ICE records.

Detainer

An agency notice or custody request, not proof of physical transfer.

Transfer

A move to another facility or authority while custody continues.

ICE release

Departure from immigration detention, which may carry conditions.

Removal

An immigration outcome involving departure from the United States, not release into Johnson County.

Prairieland Historical Verification

ODLS’s limited recent window makes a written record path essential for older cases. Preserve the A-number, exact identity information, the last confirmed location, and the date each official system was checked. Avoid guessing aliases or personal data. Ask ICE for the responsive custody and movement records, and use immigration-court material to understand the legal sequence.

A family statement, social post, or missing online profile may supply a lead but is not the agency record. Similarly, a county court disposition cannot certify a later ICE release. An ICE release may occur after the Johnson case ends, or the person may transfer elsewhere. A clean timeline labels every custodian and does not collapse the events.

The county-wide search and release-record process is explained on the Johnson County released-inmates home page. That route is useful when it is not yet clear whether the person went to Prairieland, TDCJ, another county, or the community.

About Prairieland Detention Facility

Prairieland is locally significant because Johnson County contains three unrelated adult custody systems: the county LEC in Cleburne, TDCJ’s Estes pre-release prison in Venus, and this ICE detention site in Alvarado. The right first question is “which custodian?” A name search performed in the wrong system can miss a person whose location is known to another agency.

Do not call Prairieland a Johnson County jail. It does not use the county live LEC form as its public locator, and a Prairieland departure is not documented by a county release transaction unless a separate county booking preceded it. Use ODLS for public ICE location, the facility and Dallas ERO for current inquiry, and ICE FOIA for records beyond the public window.

The correct final statement should remain narrow: currently detained at Prairieland, transferred within ICE, released from ICE detention, removed, or not confirmed through available sources. “Not found” is not an outcome. That restraint keeps a complex Johnson County custody chain accurate.