Correctional Center Federal Handoffs
The official U.S. Marshals Service agreement documents a federal-contract facility at 301 N. Texas Street. Covered groups included federal pretrial defendants, sentenced people awaiting Bureau of Prisons designation or transport, and people awaiting an immigration hearing or deportation. The agreement says release is to an officer of the initially committing federal agency. In this setting, “release” can describe departure from one building while custody continues.
The agreement is older. It establishes the documented custody pathway, but it does not prove today's contract, population, or occupancy. Confirm current operation with the facility or USMS before relying on live-custody instructions. Do not merge this center with the adult county jail merely because both are in Odessa.
| Custody stage | Confirmation route |
|---|---|
| Federal pretrial | Federal court, counsel, committing agency, or USMS |
| Awaiting BOP designation | USMS first; BOP after designation |
| In BOP custody | BOP Inmate Locator and BOP records |
| Immigration detention | ICE locator and Enforcement and Removal Operations |
Confirm a Federal Release
Use the identifier that belongs to the system: federal court case number, BOP register number, or ICE A-number. Name-only searches can join the wrong records. The Ector County release search overview distinguishes this federal route from the Sheriff's local release file.
- Identify the arresting or committing federal agency and whether the case is pretrial, sentenced, or immigration-related.
- For pretrial movement, review the federal docket and contact counsel or the appropriate USMS district source.
- After BOP designation, search the BOP Inmate Locator by register number or exact biographical details.
- For current immigration detention, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator with an A-number and country of birth when available.
- Ask the committing agency to confirm the destination when a facility departure is only a handoff.
Correctional Center Contact Route
The agreement gives the physical location, but the researched source set did not establish a current public facility telephone number or public release desk. Avoid substituting the Sheriff's detention number, which belongs to Ector County Detention Center. A federal inquiry should name the person, committing agency, case number, and narrow custody dates.
Ector County Correctional Center301 N. Texas Street
Odessa, TX 79761
Federal status: confirm with USMS or the committing agency
For an enduring legal record, locate the federal court docket and order. For a prison episode, the BOP record is stronger. For an immigration episode, ICE is the relevant current-detention source. The center address alone cannot establish present custody or release.
Ector Federal Facility Role
This is not a county-jail workflow and no researched figure supports a current population stat. The intergovernmental agreement defines a contract relationship and custody categories. It does not make every person held there a BOP prisoner, nor does presence prove a federal conviction. Pretrial defendants and other federal detainees can be outside the BOP locator until designation.
The adult local jail is the Ector County Detention Center. Its Sheriff ID&R paperwork applies to local booking and release events. The Ector County Youth Center is a confidential juvenile facility. Keeping these systems separate prevents a failed county roster search from being offered as proof about a federal detainee.
BOP Release Status Records
BOP says its online locator covers federal inmates released after 1982 and updates daily. Search by BOP register, DCDC, FBI, or INS number when known. A name search also accepts race, age, and sex. A past release date with no current BOP location, or a status of “Released,” indicates the end of the shown BOP custody episode.
The BOP locator field guide warns against broader conclusions. “Unknown” means the confinement term is undetermined. “In transit” is movement. A Community Corrections Management location can reflect BOP-related community-confinement management. A BOP result also does not establish the end of supervised release, state custody, immigration detention, or every hold.
A person can appear in BOP data without a completed federal prison sentence, including some pretrial, material-witness, civil-contempt, or dismissed-charge situations. Pair the locator result with the federal docket and committing-agency record.
ICE Detention After Ector
ICE's locator is aimed at current detention. Search by A-number and country of birth, or by exact biographical fields. A no-match is not a historical release certificate. It can reflect a transfer, recent processing, spelling variation, protected information, or a person outside the tool's coverage.
Contact ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations or the committing agency when the locator does not resolve the movement. The older USMS agreement shows that immigration-status detainees were within the documented contract scope. It must be labeled as contract evidence, not proof of today's ICE population.
- A-number
- An immigration identifier used for ICE record matching.
- Designation
- BOP assignment of a sentenced person to a federal facility.
- Custodial handoff
- Transfer from one authorized officer or facility to another without community release.
Medical Records at Federal Transfer
The USMS agreement contains an unusually specific transfer safeguard. It provides that a transferred or released federal detainee receives seven days of prescription medication. Medical records and the USM-553 form travel with the detainee. This detail supports the reading that “release” under the agreement includes an organized agency handoff.
Those records are not a public locator. Medical information remains sensitive, and the operational provision should not be turned into a promise about any individual. For family or counsel trying to trace a movement, ask the committing agency whether the required transfer packet accompanied the person and which agency accepted custody.
Ector Federal Docket Proof
A federal court docket can explain a legal event that a locator cannot. Look for a detention order, release order, plea, judgment, sentence, dismissal, commitment, or transport-related filing. The docket time is not automatically the time a person left 301 N. Texas Street. It does, however, identify the court and case number needed for a focused inquiry.
For a pretrial defendant, contact counsel or USMS after reviewing the docket. BOP may have no useful public result before designation. For a sentenced person awaiting transport, the judgment establishes the sentence while the committing agency traces the movement. Keep those propositions separate.
Match Federal Custody Identities
Federal systems use different identifiers. Prefer the BOP register number for a prison record, A-number for an immigration record, and federal case number for the court docket. If only a name is available, compare age, race, sex, dates, district, and offense context where the official source displays them. Never combine two records solely because the names resemble each other.
Record the access date and each source's update date. A physical transfer, officer handoff, locator update, and docket entry may occur at different times. A no-match can mean the wrong system was searched. It does not prove community release.
Request Federal Release Records
Ask the agency that created the record. USMS or the committing agency may hold transport and custody-transfer material. BOP holds its incarceration and release records after designation. ICE holds immigration detention records within its authority. A federal court clerk maintains the docket and filed orders.
Write narrowly. Identify the person, agency number, case number, approximate dates, and the exact document sought. Request the record that shows departure, destination, accepting agency, or BOP release date if such a field exists. Do not ask an agency to create a new narrative or disclose protected medical information.