Cambria Prison Release Routes
Cambria County calls this facility a prison, not a sheriff's jail. It holds people charged with or convicted of offenses under a legal committing authority. That means prison staff control physical custody, while a court, bail authority, sentencing body, or another agency supplies the legal basis for release or transfer. A person may leave Cambria County Prison after posting bail, receiving release on recognizance, completing a county term, or receiving county parole. Each is a community release, though pending charges or supervision may continue.
Other exits do not return a person to the community. A state sentence may lead to reception by the PA DOC Inmate/Parolee Locator. A warrant can send the person to another county. A federal matter may lead to U.S. Marshals or Bureau of Prisons custody, while an immigration detainer can lead to ICE custody. The local transaction should identify release or transfer and may record the receiving authority. The related court docket explains the order, but it does not prove the exact time prison staff completed the movement.
| Cambria exit | Meaning and next source |
|---|---|
| Bail or recognizance | County custody ends under a bail order; check the UJS docket and prison transaction. |
| Time served or discharge | The county term ends, subject to any other case, warrant, or supervision. |
| County parole | The person serves the balance under county authority; confirm through the court and Adult Probation. |
| State or federal transfer | Custody continues elsewhere; search PA DOC or BOP as appropriate. |
| ICE transfer | Local criminal custody ends, but immigration custody may begin; check ICE ODLS. |
Confirm Cambria Prison Release Records
No single public Cambria database supplies the whole answer. PA SAVIN can report an event from a participating jail, the Pennsylvania court docket can show bail or sentence action, and the prison can address immediate physical custody. A formal county request is the durable route to an existing release or transfer entry. The broader Cambria County released inmate search explains these county, court, state, federal, and notification channels together.
- Search the specific person in PA SAVIN through VINELink. Match the agency and identity, then preserve whether the event says release or transfer.
- Search both relevant court levels in the UJS Web Portal. Review all Cambria dockets for bail, disposition, sentence, warrants, and later orders.
- Call Cambria County Prison with a narrow question: does the facility still hold the person, or did county custody end by release or transfer? Staff may limit what they disclose.
- If another custodian is possible, check PA DOC, BOP, ICE, or the named county jail. An active facility result means the person remains in custody.
- For a lasting county record, request the existing booking and release transaction from the Cambria County Open Records Officer.
GettingOut and ConnectNetwork materials linked by the county concern calls, tablets, or funds for people in custody. They are not custody locators. They do not verify a Cambria County Prison release date, and their absence of activity proves nothing about status.
Cambria Prison Records Contacts
The official Cambria County Prison page identifies Warden Kurt Wolford and publishes facility contacts. Lobby and professional-visitation hours are not records-office hours or release times. Call before making an in-person records visit. A formal request should go through the county's Open Records Officer instead of assuming prison lobby staff can produce an old transaction.
Cambria County Prison
425 Manor Drive
Ebensburg, PA 15931
Telephone: (814) 472-7330
Fax: (814) 472-1367
Lobby and professional visitation: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The official prison page shown below is the right facility source, but its navigation offers no inmate search, release list, booking-photo gallery, or archive.
That gap is why a release check must move to PA SAVIN, the UJS docket, direct contact, and the county records process.
Cambria Prison Custody Context
Cambria County Prison can hold pretrial defendants, people serving county sentences, people waiting for transfer, and people held for another authority. Those groups have different release paths. A bail entry applies to a pending case. County parole is conditional release under county or court authority. Transfer into a state correctional institution continues confinement and should be searched through PA DOC, even if the person is no longer at Manor Drive.
Published Prison Board minutes give useful scale without naming individuals. The March 2024 report recorded an average daily population of 395, while the April report recorded 370. These are snapshots of occupied custody. They are not admissions, release totals, average stays, or evidence about any named person.
The county publishes Prison Board minutes that can show policy, contracts, and aggregate population. They are not a person-search tool. For one person's status, use the systems tied to that person's legal and physical custody.
The prison also publishes lobby, visitation, communications, mail, and confinement materials. None supplies a public release hour, physical exit point, weekend procedure, property-return rule, family waiting area, transportation plan, or gate-money policy. Those practical details must be confirmed directly with the facility by the released person or an authorized contact. Practices from another Pennsylvania jail should not be assumed at Manor Drive. Likewise, published lobby hours do not promise that release processing occurs only within that window.
Request Cambria Prison Release Records
A Pennsylvania Right-to-Know request must seek an existing record. It should not ask the county to research a question or create a new report. Identify the person, spelling or alias, local booking number if known, and a narrow booking or release date range. Ask for the existing booking/release transaction or release-log entry, including the release or transfer date and time, category, releasing authority, and receiving agency if those fields were recorded and are public.
The Cambria County open-records process accepts requests through the county officer, and the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records provides a standard form and current fee guidance. Electronic delivery can reduce copying. Ask for an estimate before incurring charges. The Right-to-Know Law normally calls for an initial response within five business days, though a lawful extension may apply. A reply can grant, partially grant, deny, cite another custodian, or state that no responsive record was found.
Cambria County Open Records Officer
Melissa Kestermont
200 South Center Street
Ebensburg, PA 15931
Telephone: (814) 472-1607
Fax: (814) 472-6940
Email: mkestermont@co.cambria.pa.us
Some material may be withheld or redacted for privacy, safety, investigation, medical, juvenile, sealing, or other lawful reasons. Ask for reasonably segregable public portions. If a signed bail, sentence, parole, or discharge order is also needed, the Cambria Clerk of Courts is the custodian for adult criminal filings. The prison transaction proves what staff recorded; the court order establishes the legal basis.
Search the court chronology with care. A posted bail entry on one docket does not clear another commitment, and a closed case does not identify the gate time. Review Magisterial District Court and Common Pleas matters when both may apply. A certified order can establish what the judge directed, while the release transaction can establish whether staff carried out a community release or delivered the person to another custodian.
Note: A no-record response may reflect request wording, retention, or the wrong custodian, so it does not establish that no release occurred.
Cambria Prison ICE Transfers
Cambria County has a distinct immigration-custody issue. An official DHS inspection documented the prison as an ICE detention location in 2021. Local reporting in 2025 and 2026 described a renewed detention relationship and a 287(g) Jail Enforcement Model arrangement. These sources describe agency practice, not any one person's case.
If a Cambria criminal hold ends and ICE assumes custody, the county transaction is a transfer. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator System with the A-number and country of birth or available biographical details. ODLS is a current detention locator, not a long-term release archive. A match can identify the detention location. No match can result from release, removal, transfer, data lag, spelling, an identifier error, or limits on who appears, so absence alone cannot prove community release.
When the county entry does not name the destination, request the transfer field if recorded and public. Then use the immigration case source or detention contact that fits the result. Preserve the line between Cambria County Prison custody and ICE custody. It prevents a local release event from being misstated as freedom from all confinement.
Cambria County Prison System Lines
Cambria County also contains a separate federal institution. FCI Loretto release records belong to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, not Cambria County Prison, county probation, or the Cambria Clerk of Courts. A name linked only to "a prison in Cambria County" is not enough. First identify whether the last custodian was the county prison in Ebensburg or the federal institution in Loretto.
State custody is separate again. A person sentenced to state confinement may leave Cambria County Prison for a Pennsylvania correctional institution outside the county. The PA DOC locator should then show a state institution, transit, or supervision status. Movement from Manor Drive to an SCI is not release. Later release from the SCI to state parole is a different event under state authority.
Federal pretrial custody can involve the U.S. Marshals Service before a sentenced person reaches BOP. USMS has no public historical locator equal to BOP's. The federal docket, counsel or court, and a targeted USMS records request may be needed. Choosing the correct custodian at the start avoids a false result and sends the records request to the office that created the document.