Norfolk County Correctional Center Releases
The Norfolk County Correctional Center, or NCCC, holds two legally distinct groups. Pretrial detainees may leave on bail, personal recognizance, or a court order while their cases remain open. People serving house-of-correction sentences may leave after time served, sentence expiration, parole, probation, or another lawful discharge. The recorded reason matters as much as the date.
NCSO custody can also end through transfer. A release to MADOC, another sheriff, the U.S. Marshals Service, or an immigration authority is not a return to the community. Research identified a small U.S. Marshals population in source data, so a federal handoff is possible. No current NCSO immigration detention contract was established. Ask for the destination or receiving-agency field rather than assuming every exit means freedom.
Confirm Norfolk County Correctional Center Release
The strongest proof is an NCSO booking and release transaction read with the controlling docket. The Norfolk County released-inmate search and record path explains how the systems fit together. For this facility, use the following order.
- Identify the full name, approximate booking period, date of birth or jail ID when lawfully known, and the criminal docket number.
- Call NCSO at 781-329-3705 for current routing. Treat telephone information as a same-day lead, not a durable record.
- Email records_request@norfolksheriffma.org and request the admission and release transaction, including date, time, exact reason, authority, and destination.
- Open the correct court docket and compare the release order, sentence, bail, probation, warrant, or later modification with the NCSO event.
- If the record states parole, check the Massachusetts Parole Board. If it states transfer, continue with the receiving agency.
Do not use Massachusetts VINELink as an NCCC lookup. The state’s official guidance says only MADOC participates. An NCCC detainee who later appears there entered state custody; that result does not confirm a community release from Dedham. For a written, date-specific request, ask NCSO to distinguish “release to the community” from “release to another criminal justice agency.”
Norfolk County Correctional Center Records
A narrow request helps the custodian locate the controlling transaction. It also reduces the risk that a transfer is mistaken for discharge. Ask for fields that answer identity, timing, authority, and destination.
| Requested field | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Recorded name and jail identifier | Ties the event to the correct NCCC stay |
| Admission date and status | Separates a pretrial hold from a local sentence |
| Release date and time | States when NCSO recorded the custody exit |
| Exact release type | Distinguishes bail, time served, parole, probation, expiration, or transfer |
| Releasing authority | Names the court, board, or agency behind the event |
| Destination or receiving agency | Shows whether another custody system took control |
| Detainer disposition | Explains whether another warrant or hold affected release |
Request any releasable discharge sheet or certificate as well. If a field is withheld, ask the custodian to cite the exemption and provide all reasonably separable public material. The docket is the second source, but it normally does not certify the exact moment the person left the facility.
Note: Name both the NCCC stay and the docket number to reduce confusion with another Norfolk County custody record.
Norfolk County Correctional Center Records Contact
NCSO is the owner of this county-jail record. It is not the arresting police department and not the court. Municipal police retain arrest reports, while the Trial Court clerk retains dockets and court documents. Send the release request to the Sheriff’s records custodian.
Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office
Facility: Norfolk County Correctional Center
Address: 200 West Street, P.O. Box 149, Dedham, MA 02027
Main phone: 781-329-3705
Fax: 781-326-6020
Records email: records_request@norfolksheriffma.org
General email: info@norfolksheriffma.org
Records hours: No public office hours posted; call for current instructions
The official NCSO public-records page is the content-bearing request route. Massachusetts law requires a response to a reasonably described public-record request within ten business days, though that response may address production time, lawful fees, exemptions, or appeal rights. NCSO posts no local fee schedule, so request electronic copies and a cost estimate before chargeable work.
The official records page shows the proper local custodian channel.
Using the named facility and a short date range makes the request easier to route than a broad request for all jail material.
Norfolk County Correctional Center Profile
Sheriff Patrick W. McDermott’s office operates NCCC as Norfolk County’s jail and house of correction. The official facility description says the medium-security campus opened in 1992. It uses direct supervision and holds male pretrial detainees and locally sentenced people. House-of-correction sentences are described as 2.5 years or less.
An official statement gives an average sentence served of about three months. That figure applies neither to a pretrial detainee nor to an individual release estimate. Court orders, credits, warrants, detainers, parole action, and sentence structure can change a person’s path.
The NCSO jail-operations page documents the facility’s role and design.
The facility description helps distinguish NCCC’s county populations from people held at Norfolk County’s MADOC prisons.
Norfolk County Correctional Center Release Data
Norfolk’s quarterly Chapter 126, §40 Admissions and Releases reports offer a specialized form of later corroboration. The table can contain the Sheriff’s Office, PCF, SID, OBTN, booking date, admission type, release date, earned time, sentence length, and jail credit. It does not provide the person’s name, photograph, or release reason. The report is delayed and cannot answer who left NCCC today.
A known identifier may let a reader compare a row with an NCSO record, but the quarterly table never replaces the named release transaction. It cannot distinguish a community exit from parole, probation, transfer, or another agency handoff without the underlying record. Do not treat aggregate or deidentified data as a public roster.
The report’s value is narrow. It can support a timeline after the person and identifier are already known, while the NCSO custodian and court docket remain the primary proof sources.
Norfolk County Correctional Center Release Timing
The official visitor brochure says discharges occur after 9 a.m., Monday through Friday. That statement does not guarantee a precise exit time. It also does not cover every court release, weekend event, holiday, transportation delay, or hold. No official exit door, waiting zone, ride-home program, gate-money policy, or complete weekend discharge schedule was found.
Bail follows another schedule. NCSO’s dedicated bail page says it is normally handled from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 9:30 p.m. on weekends and holidays, depending on a Bail Commissioner. Processing may take about two hours. Older NCSO material differs on hours and states a $40 commissioner fee, so call 781-329-3705 to confirm the person is bailable, check holds, and learn the current amount and fee.
NCCC sits between the northbound and southbound sides of Route 128. Do not infer a safe walking route or pickup point from a map. Ask NCSO for current pickup directions before traveling.
A family pickup plan should remain flexible. Court processing, release paperwork, a warrant check, a detainer, transportation, or Bail Commissioner availability can change the actual time. Confirm that NCSO has completed the release before relying on the stated weekday discharge practice.
Note: A scheduled discharge window is not proof that the Norfolk County Correctional Center release was completed.
Norfolk County Correctional Center Release Property
A person released directly from court may leave property at NCCC. The dedicated property page states that a former detainee may collect it Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. with proper identification and intake paperwork. It states that unclaimed property is discarded after 60 days.
The jail FAQ conflicts with those details. It gives a 2:30 p.m. closing time and a 30-day period. Call before traveling and follow current staff direction. When the owner is incarcerated elsewhere, NCSO requires a notarized designation for another person to retrieve the belongings.
The official property page shows the current dedicated instructions.
Property pickup can follow a court release, but it does not replace the NCSO transaction as proof of the legal custody exit.
After Norfolk Correctional Center Release
A true community release may still carry court or supervision duties. Parole is conditional release from a custodial sentence under the Massachusetts Parole Board. Probation is a court-ordered community sentence or condition administered through the Trial Court. A docket may show that probation was ordered, while current reporting details can remain restricted.
NCSO says reentry work begins soon after admission through a Transition Plan. The H.O.P.E. Center in Braintree and Quincy offers appointment-based navigation that can include identification help, health-insurance navigation, treatment referral, and peer recovery coaching. These services can support the transition, but participation does not prove release.
For transfer events, keep systems separate. MADOC uses VINELink for current state-prison custody. BOP records federal custody, and a U.S. Marshals handoff may require the federal docket and holding-facility record. The NCCC event tells when NCSO control ended; the next agency tells what followed.
Note: Reentry participation and post-release services support transition but never replace the final Norfolk County Correctional Center transaction.