SCI Cambridge Springs Release Paths
State Correctional Institution Cambridge Springs is a minimum-security Pennsylvania DOC prison for women. It sits in Crawford County, but its custody and discharge records belong to PA DOC. A person leaving the institution may enter state parole and field supervision, reach maximum-sentence discharge, move to community corrections, transfer to another institution, or depart to a detainer.
A grant of parole is not proof that the person has walked out. Release planning, institutional prerequisites, later orders, and detainers can delay or redirect physical departure. A Board Action supplies the parole decision. The PA DOC record and PA SAVIN help confirm the custody event. A sentencing docket gives legal context, but it does not by itself prove the moment staff completed release.
| State-prison event | Best first source | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Still incarcerated | PA DOC Inmate search | Current or permanent institution and last update |
| Released to parole | Department Supervised Individual search | Release date, supervision status, and field office |
| Parole decision | Board Action | Granted, refused, deferred, rescinded, or to detainer |
| Sentence discharge | PA DOC record and sentencing docket | Completion of the controlling obligation |
| Transfer or detainer | DOC departure plus receiving agency | Whether custody continued elsewhere |
Search SCI Cambridge Springs Releases
The PA DOC Inmate and Department Supervised Individual Locator has two distinct search sides. Use the Inmate search for current state custody. It accepts DOC number, name, parole number, county, current location, approximate age, birth date, and other filters. A DOC number is the most exact input. When searching by name, compare aliases, birth information, committing county, and physical details before choosing a record.
- Open the PA DOC locator and choose Inmate for current prison custody.
- Search by DOC number, or narrow a name search with birth and location details.
- Open the matching record and check the current or permanent location and update marker.
- After release to state parole, switch to Department Supervised Individual or Parolee.
- Search by parole number when known, or combine name, birth data, and release date.
- Corroborate a reported departure with PA SAVIN and the controlling docket or Board Action.
The current public Inmate detail examined for this project did not display a minimum sentence, maximum sentence, projected release date, tentative release date, or actual release date. Do not treat a missing field as a promised date. The supervised-person side includes a Release Date search input, but that date is retrospective for a person who entered supervision.
SCI Cambridge Springs Release Contact
The institution can route questions about its own operations, but PA DOC owns the statewide custody record. A documentary release or discharge request belongs with the department's Right-to-Know Law Office. County open-records officers do not maintain the state-prison transaction.
State Correctional Institution Cambridge Springs
451 Fullerton Avenue
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238
Telephone: 814-398-5400
Operator: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
The official SCI Cambridge Springs page identifies the prison, address, and contact number. Use that page to verify current institution details before relying on the reference image.
The source confirms that this Crawford County institution is part of Pennsylvania DOC rather than the county correctional facility.
SCI Cambridge Springs Locator Fields
The Inmate detail may show the person's name and aliases, DOC inmate number, parole-board number when present, date of birth, current and permanent location, committing county, physical descriptors, a last-update marker, and a DOC photograph. Information is updated daily, so a same-day event may occur before the public page changes.
- Minimum sentence
- The earliest ordinary point when parole discretion may open, not a guaranteed departure.
- Maximum sentence
- The judicial outside term, subject to lawful credit, later orders, and other custody.
- Parole
- Release from prison to state field supervision while the sentence remains active.
- Discharge
- Completion or termination of the relevant DOC custody or supervision obligation.
- Detainer
- A hold that may direct release to another custodian rather than the community.
A person may vanish from the Inmate side because the record moved to the supervised-person side. Someone fully discharged from DOC may later be absent from both public views. For older releases, use the sentencing docket and a focused PA DOC records request rather than declaring that no release occurred.
Request SCI Cambridge Springs Records
Send a state-prison request to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Right-to-Know Law Office, Office of Chief Counsel, 1920 Technology Parkway, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. The office telephone is 717-728-7763 and its email is RA-docrighttoknow@pa.gov. Use the PA DOC Right-to-Know service.
Name the person, DOC number, and birth date if known. Ask for records sufficient to show the date and type of release from DOC custody, along with maintained minimum-date, maximum-date, parole-release-date, sentence-status, and supervising-district-office fields. A request should seek records, not require staff to calculate a new release forecast.
For a photograph, ask separately for the most recent publicly releasable institutional identification photograph and its date. A PA DOC photo is not a Crawford County booking image. Access, redaction, and retention can differ, and the public locator should not be described as a permanent discharged-person photo archive.
SCI Cambridge Springs Parole Release
The Pennsylvania Parole Board decides whether eligible people receive state parole, while PA DOC performs field supervision. Under 61 Pa.C.S. ยง 6137, the Board generally cannot exercise ordinary parole discretion before the court-set minimum. Parole remains discretionary, and there is no right to leave prison on the minimum date.
A Board Action may say granted, refused, deferred, rescinded, reparoled, or to detainer. Preserve the exact label. A decision to parole to a detainer is not release to the street. Institutional planning and other prerequisites may still stand between a favorable vote and actual departure.
After release to parole, search the Department Supervised Individual side and identify the applicable field office. PA DOC's absconder search applies only when the department alleges that a supervised person is not reporting. An absconder listing does not prove current incarceration or physical location.
SCI Cambridge Springs Release Alerts
PA SAVIN, delivered through VINELink, covers Pennsylvania state prisons and state parole as well as county jails. Search one person, compare the reporting agency and identifiers, and open the correct result. If notification options are offered, a user may register for a release, escape, transfer, or other custody-change alert.
VINELink is downstream from the agency that supplies data. It can lag and does not promise permanent retention of a released result. A moved or transferred label is not the same as community release. If an alert conflicts with the PA DOC locator, compare timestamps and contact the originating department.
Federal BOP and ICE custody do not belong in VINELink's Pennsylvania state-prison path. If a detainer sends someone to another authority, use the receiving agency's locator and record. The Crawford County release records overview sets out those custody-specific branches.
SCI Cambridge Springs Release Dates
Pennsylvania indeterminate sentences ordinarily state a minimum and maximum. The minimum can open parole review, while the maximum marks the judicial outside term subject to credit and lawful changes. Neither is an exact door time. Pennsylvania also has no general rule that every state prisoner serves about 85 percent before release.
Dates may change after amended orders, credit for prior custody, parole action, discipline under applicable rules, detainers, new cases, revocation, transfer, or administrative recalculation. RRRI and Short Sentence Parole are specific programs with eligibility rules, not universal good time.
For a current calculation, retrieve the UJS sentencing order, identify the proper institution and DOC number, and ask the authorized record holder for maintained fields. Register with PA SAVIN for a reported custody change. Do not convert a sentence end date or a minimum into an executed release.
SCI Cambridge Springs Record Boundaries
Each source answers one part of the SCI Cambridge Springs release. PA DOC identifies state custody and supervision. The Parole Board records a parole decision. PA SAVIN reports participating custody events. The UJS docket preserves the sentence and later court entries. The DOC Right-to-Know office is the documentary fallback.
Crawford County systems cannot fill those roles merely because the institution is located inside county borders. Likewise, departure from SCI Cambridge Springs proves only that PA DOC institutional custody ended at that site. If the person went to another prison, community-corrections placement, a detainer, or another authority, the next custodian's record must complete the chain.
Note: Always preserve the reporting agency beside a status so county-jail and state-prison episodes are not combined.
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