Davidson Projected and Actual Dates
NCDAC uses the exact label “Projected Release Date” for a prospective calculation. Sentence history can also display “Actual Release Date” after a completed event. A projection answers when release might occur based on the current official calculation. An actual date, read with status and movement, helps confirm that the state event took place. Never substitute one label for the other.
A pretrial detainee at the Davidson County Jail has no sentence-based release date. A magistrate or judge may set release conditions, but the order supplies legal authority rather than the minute of physical departure. The sheriff’s custody entry supplies the release time and type. A person serving a local sentence may have a custodian calculation, yet the face of the judgment alone cannot establish the final timestamp because credits and other holds still matter.
Custody type controls the source. Davidson Correctional Center is an NCDAC state prison, so its projections and state release history belong in Offender Public Information. Davidson County Jail is sheriff custody, so county release questions go to the active roster, jail record, and court file. A transfer between facilities is movement, not release to the community.
Find a Davidson Projected Release Date
For a North Carolina state prisoner, begin with the NCDAC Offender Public Information search. The form accepts a seven-digit offender number and name-based searches with refiners. A state record can include inmate status, current or previous location, Last Movement, sentence history, Projected Release Date, and Actual Release Date. Fields vary by person and sentence era, so quote only what the selected record actually shows.
- Identify the last custodian before searching. Do not use residence or conviction county as a substitute.
- Search NCDAC by offender number when known, or use name and suitable birth-date or descriptor refiners.
- Match the offender number, date of birth, descriptors, court county, docket, and sentence details.
- Read the Projected Release Date with inmate status, current location, Last Movement, and the relevant sentence component.
- Check for consecutive sentences, supervision fields, and an Actual Release Date in completed history.
- Record the access time and contact NCDAC about a demonstrable calculation error.
For a Davidson county-jail sentence, contact the jail at 336-242-2126 and ask for the recorded calculation and custody entry. Review the filed judgment for the imposed term and jail credit, but do not calculate the final date from the judgment alone. The Davidson County release-record path shows how to pair the court’s legal record with the sheriff’s executed release record.
The dedicated NCDAC Inmate Release Search serves a different purpose. It accepts county plus year and month, or a person’s name, and lists completed state releases. Choosing Davidson describes a state release-data field, not a query of Davidson County Jail. Use the offender profile as a second route because “Release County Not Reported” and “Released To Other State(s)” options show why a county-only search can miss a known state record.
Davidson Release-Date Record Fields
NCDAC profiles divide current status from sentence history. Most-recent incarceration may show Incarceration Status, Total Incarceration Term, Conviction Date, Projected Release Date, Primary Crime and type, Current Status, Admission Date, Admitting Location, custody details, current or previous location, and Last Movement with its date. Sentence history may add Service Status, Sentence Begin Date, Actual Release Date, punishment type, minimum and maximum term, parole dates, conviction county, docket, and offense details.
| Field | What it can establish | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Projected Release Date | NCDAC’s current forecast | It can change and is not completed release proof |
| Actual Release Date | A completed date in state sentence history | Read with current status and any later custody |
| Last Movement | The most recent recorded prison movement | It may be admission, transfer, or release |
| Inmate Status | Whether NCDAC reports current prison custody | It is separate from supervision status |
| PRS/parole status | Continuing state community supervision | Release from prison may begin this stage |
Total term can summarize several sentences and should not be casually recalculated. Conviction county identifies the judgment source, not necessarily the release location. If the record displays both a projection and an actual date, chronology and current status determine which event the reader is seeing.
Davidson Felony Release Calculations
North Carolina structured sentencing uses minimum and maximum terms. Under G.S. 15A-1340.17 and the related release framework, the minimum and maximum are not interchangeable labels. G.S. 15A-1340.13(d) requires service of the minimum term. Earned time may reduce the maximum but not below the minimum.
The Commission’s parole-process explanation describes a person sentenced for an offense on or after October 1, 1994 as serving at least 100 percent of the minimum and 85 percent of the maximum, followed by PRS for a felony offender. That statement is not a shortcut saying everyone serves 85 percent of a sentence. It describes the relationship built into structured minimum and maximum terms. Offense dates, offense classes, special provisions, sentence combinations, and authorized credits still govern the actual record.
The statutory sentence structure can be reviewed in this official felony sentencing capture.
The statute supplies the legal structure. NCDAC’s person-specific profile supplies the agency’s current calculation and should remain the operative public date.
Davidson Earned-Time Release Rules
G.S. 148-13 authorizes NCDAC earned-time and good-time rules. It also requires distribution of the rules to local jail administrators for sentenced jail prisoners. These credits operate within the governing sentence structure. They are not a universal number that a reader can subtract from a judgment.
For misdemeanants, G.S. 15A-1340.20(d) limits earned time to no more than four days per month. G.S. 15A-1355 addresses when a sentence begins and how jail credit works. Pretrial credit, concurrent or consecutive judgments, a corrected judgment, and a new case can all change the custodian’s computation.
The earned-time authority appears in this General Assembly capture.
Ask the sheriff for a Davidson jail calculation or NCDAC for a state calculation. Neither source should be replaced by an informal arithmetic estimate.
Davidson Release Onto Supervision
For applicable felony sentences, prison release can begin post-release supervision rather than end the sentence. G.S. 15A-1368.2 sets a release-to-PRS calculation by subtracting the PRS portion from the maximum term less earned time. The general periods identified in the research are 12 months for Classes B1 through E, nine months for Classes F through I, and 60 months for applicable registration-offense maximums. Exceptions and the governing version of the statute still matter.
This is why NCDAC displays inmate status separately from Probation/Parole/Post Release Status. An inactive inmate status beside active PRS means out of state-prison custody but still within the correctional sentence. Violation or revocation can change the chronology. Completion of supervision terminates the sentence only when the responsible authority records it.
For Davidson County, Community Supervision District 22 is the local verification office. A projected prison date should therefore be read with any expected PRS stage, not as a promise that all correctional control ends on that date.
Why Davidson Release Dates Change
A projected release date is recalculated from official judgment and custody information. Changes do not all have the same cause. Some alter sentence credit, some alter legal authority, and some show that another custodian will take control. Ask the agency which source field changed rather than guessing from the date alone.
| Factor | Possible effect | Best confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Earned-time change | Moves the computed state or local date within legal limits | NCDAC or jail calculation |
| Corrected court order | Changes sentence terms or credits | Filed Davidson court order plus custodian update |
| Consecutive or new sentence | Extends or restructures the chronology | Sentence history and all known dockets |
| Detainer or hold | Another agency may assume custody | Custodian release destination and receiving agency |
| Parole review or revocation | Changes an eligible older-law or supervision path | Commission record and NCDAC status |
| Transfer | Changes location without community release | Last Movement, location, and status |
Davidson Forecast Versus Confirmation
The clearest local rule comes from NCDAC sentence history: use Projected Release Date before the event, then look for Actual Release Date plus current status and movement afterward. That sequence is the distinctive Davidson projected-release workflow because it keeps the state prison record separate from the county jail record.
If a projected date passes without a clear update, do not assume release or delay. Recheck the profile by offender number, inspect later movements and sentence components, and contact NCDAC. For a Davidson County Jail case, request the sheriff’s actual custody release entry and pair it with the court authority. For advance notice, the Davidson VINELink check explains custody-change registration, but an alert is not a substitute for the custodian’s final record.
After any reported release, check for PRS, parole, transfer, or another hold. “Released by” one agency can mean that agency’s custody ended while another legal control began. Save exact identifiers and access dates so a later change can be reconciled without turning a forecast into a false statement of fact.
For a completed state release, compare the dedicated release-search row with the OPI profile. The row’s Release Date and Type of Release can identify the event, while the profile supplies the longer sentence and movement context. If Davidson is selected as the release county, label the result as NCDAC state release data. Do not call it a Davidson County Jail entry.
For a local sentence, the sequence is different. The judgment supplies the imposed term and credited time, but the sheriff makes the working custody calculation and records the actual departure. Ask whether a detainer, concurrent or consecutive judgment, or corrected order affected the date. This is more reliable than counting days from the face of a court document.