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Frederick County Work Release

The Frederick County Work Release Center is listed in the Frederick County facility map as a local work-release and community-corrections facility operated by the Frederick County Sheriff's Office Corrections Bureau. It is not a separate state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention center. The sheriff's Adult Detention Center material identifies Work Release as one of the county's alternatives to incarceration, along with Pre-Trial Services, Home Detention, and Alternative Sentencing or Community Service.

The Work Release Center is closely linked to the Adult Detention Center but has its own address for legal mail and subscriptions. The official visitation and mail source lists that address as 7281 Marcie's Choice Lane in Frederick. The research did not locate a public capacity, daily population count, public eligibility rule sheet, employment schedule policy, or separate online inmate roster for this facility. Those gaps remain important because the official sources did not show a searchable public roster for the center.

The Work Release Center appears in the official sheriff visitation and mail information. The source screenshot comes from FCSO visitation and mail information.

The screenshot is relevant because it names the Work Release Center visitation rule and gives the shared mail and video-visit framework.

Frederick Work Release Lookup

No separate official Frederick County Work Release Center roster was located in the public sources reviewed. For a work-release custody search, start with the Work Release direct line, then use the Adult Detention Center main line or Offender Records if the question involves booking, custody status, or jail records. If the person has an active court case, Maryland Judiciary Case Search may show charges, hearings, and disposition details after court entry. If the person is later committed to the Maryland Commissioner of Correction, the county work-release channel is no longer the right primary tool and the DPSCS locator becomes the state-custody lookup path.

Because work release is an alternative tied to local supervision, a person may have different public traces than someone housed in a regular ADC jail unit. The sheriff may be able to route general custody questions, but staff may not release all details by phone. Requests for releasable records, photographs, or public records should go through the FCSO records process, including the GovQuest portal named by the sheriff's records page.

1. Call Work Release at 301-600-1727 for work-release-specific routing.
2. Use ADC main or Offender Records if the person may still be in the Adult Detention Center system.
3. Check Maryland VINE for custody status and notification options.
4. Search Maryland Case Search for formal charges and case events after arrest.
5. Use the Maryland DPSCS incarcerated-individual locator if the person entered state custody.

Frederick Work Release Contact

The Work Release Center address used in the research comes from the sheriff's visitation and mail instructions. The phone numbers come from the official Adult Detention Center phone-number list, which separates Work Release from Accounting and other ADC divisions. Work-release questions should not be routed to the courthouse first unless the question is about the criminal case, a hearing, or a court order. The jail and sheriff channels handle custody routing; the courts handle the public court file.

The official phone list is captured in the manifest. See FCSO ADC phone numbers for the source page.

The direct-number list is the strongest source for separating Work Release from the main jail, Central Booking, and Offender Records.

Frederick Work Release Visits

The Work Release Center has a distinct visitation rule in the sheriff's visitation source: video visitation only, with no contact visitation. That is different from the Adult Detention Center's listed in-person schedule for juveniles, females, and males. Work-release visitors should set up the Pay Tel Connect account, request approval, and schedule visits within the sheriff's timing rules. The research states that on-site video visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance and no more than 7 days ahead, pending approval.

Visitors should treat video approval as part of the process, not as automatic access. Government photo ID rules and facility approval still matter. The sheriff's professional-visit rules allow security-based denials during emergencies, and legal visits have separate recording rules. A missed approval window or wrong account setup can delay contact even when the person is eligible for a visit.

Frederick Work Release Mail

Mail rules are one of the clearest ways the Work Release Center differs from a simple jail roster entry. Personal mail for ADC and Work Release inmates, except legal mail, uses the same Greensboro, North Carolina scanning address. This is a mail-processing address, not proof that the person is housed outside Frederick County. The contractor scans mail within 24 hours of receipt, staff review it electronically within 48 hours, and approved mail is made available on tablets.

Legal mail and subscriptions use the Work Release Center's physical address. The research states that Work Release legal mail should be addressed to Frederick County Work Release Center, Inmate Name, Inmate AR #, 7281 Marcie's Choice Lane, Frederick, MD 21704. Legal mail must be marked Legal Mail and opened in front of ADC staff. Personal mail must have a complete legible return address and must follow the page and content limits in the sheriff's mail rules.

Frederick Work Release Money

The official research did not locate a separate Work Release fee schedule. It did locate shared county jail phone, commissary, and deposit rules. Money deposits use SmartDeposit or the lobby kiosk, and no mailed funds are accepted through the mail-processing center. A 211 snippet mentioned program fees for work release, but no official fee schedule was found in the reviewed public sheriff pages, so exact work-release program fees should not be stated here.

Phone service is through Pay Tel Communications under the county correctional system. The researched call window is 6:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily. Staff do not pass phone messages to inmates and incoming calls are not allowed. Calls can use inmate debit, collect, or prepaid accounts. Published rates in the research are local calls at $0.07 plus tax per minute, long distance at $0.14 plus tax per minute, Mexico at $0.50 plus tax per minute, and international calls at $0.75 plus tax per minute. Each call is limited to 15 minutes with a warning before the end.

The commissary and phone screenshot is from FCSO inmate commissary and phone calls.

The source helps confirm the shared SmartDeposit and Pay Tel framework, while leaving work-release-specific program fees unstated because no official schedule was located.

Frederick Work Release Records

Work-release status can overlap with several public systems. A person may have a jail booking record, a court case, a release condition, a supervision status, or a later state-prison record. These systems are not one database. The sheriff's records page states that FCSO records requests are processed under agency policy, the Maryland Public Information Act, and applicable court or judiciary rules. The preferred submission route is GovQuest, which can be used for public records, photographs, incident reports, calls for service, and other agency records that are releasable after review.

For court charges after a jail arrest, use Case Search or the clerk's office rather than the Work Release Center. For custody notification, use VINE where available. For state custody after sentencing, use DPSCS. For federal or immigration custody after transfer, use the BOP or ICE locator rather than treating the Work Release Center as the final public source. Frederick County research found no BOP prison or active ICE detention facility in the county facility map.

Work release

A local community-corrections status for approved people under sheriff correctional control.

Offender Records

The ADC records channel listed by the sheriff for custody and booking-related records questions.

GovQuest

The public-record portal named by FCSO for records requests and status updates.

DPSCS

Maryland's state corrections department, used after commitment to state custody.

The records request source in the manifest is FCSO reports, PIA, and crash reports.

That source is relevant when a work-release record is not available by phone or through a public custody-status tool.

Frederick Work Release Population

Official public sources reviewed did not provide a Work Release Center rated capacity, current population count, participant demographic table, eligibility rule sheet, employment schedule policy, or separate public admission report. The safest summary is that the center serves approved work-release and community-based offender populations under the sheriff's Corrections Bureau. It should not be described as a jail holding all new arrestees. New arrests are processed through the Adult Detention Center Central Booking Unit.

Frederick County's broader corrections system includes the Adult Detention Center, Central Booking, Pre-Trial Services, Home Detention, Alternative Sentencing and Community Service, and Work Release. The 2025 sheriff release on a retiring warden credited the county with advancing the Work Release Program, Central Booking, a modern medical wing, a tablet and phone system, accreditation efforts, and reentry program support during his tenure. That history supports writing the center as part of local community corrections, not as a stand-alone prison.