Where L.C. Knight Releases Go
L.C. Knight is Dorchester County's active jail and holds the county custody episode. A person may walk out to the community after posting bond, receiving a personal-recognizance release, completing time served, obtaining a dismissal or other court order, or finishing a local term. Each basis means something different. Bond ends jail custody while the case continues. Time served concerns custody credit and does not show whether probation or another case remains. A dismissal applies to a charge and may not resolve all charges tied to the booking.
Some departures are transfers. A person can move to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, another county, federal criminal custody, or an immigration custodian. That person has left L.C. Knight but has not necessarily gone home. Read the release type, destination, detainer, and receiving authority if the record supplies them. The Dorchester County released-inmate search guide explains how the county, court, state, and federal checks fit together without treating disappearance from one system as proof of freedom.
Confirm an L.C. Knight Release
No verified official Dorchester County rolling release feed was found. Start with SC VINE, searching the exact legal name or offender number. Use a middle initial and birth details to separate common names, then read both the status and named agency. VINE is a status and notification service, not the archived release instrument. A released result is a useful lead. No result can also reflect a spelling issue, data delay, transfer, or a custody system outside VINE coverage.
Next, call the detention center at 843-832-0215 with the person's identity and approximate booking date. Ask whether Dorchester County custody ended and whether the public status identifies a transfer. Then match the related case in the South Carolina Judicial Branch case-search gateway. Bond entries, disposition rows, and sentencing orders can explain the legal cause, though the online index is not a certified court record.
- Confirm the spelling, birth details, booking date, and case number.
- Check SC VINE and note the agency, status, and retrieval time.
- Call L.C. Knight to distinguish release from transfer.
- Match every charge in the Dorchester court case.
- Request the official booking and release record for durable proof.
If the person is shown in custody, there is no completed release to report. If the name vanished, search the receiving system named in the record. Lieber or MacDougall custody belongs in SCDC tools. A named federal transfer may require BOP or the federal case, while an immigration transfer may require ICE's locator.
L.C. Knight Release Records
The release record belongs to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office when L.C. Knight held the person. The county directs Sheriff and Detention Center requests through its online records route. Submit a narrow request through the Dorchester County NextRequest portal. Give the full name, approximate booking and release dates, and any booking or case number. Ask for the booking record, release timestamp, release type, and destination or receiving authority if maintained and releasable.
220 Hodge Road
Summerville, SC
Detention Center: 843-832-0215
Dorchester County Sheriff's Office
212 Deming Way
Summerville, SC 29483
843-832-0300
Administrative hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays
The Deming Way address is the Sheriff's public office and mailing contact, while Hodge Road is the active jail. Administrative office hours are not a claim about release processing, records-counter access, visits, or property pickup. Releases can depend on court and agency processing outside those hours. Verify current instructions before travel.
South Carolina FOIA response and fee rules do not guarantee immediate production of every item. A focused date range and known identifiers reduce search time. The official record may contain exempt or withheld material. For an urgent present-custody question, use the detention phone rather than treating a public-record request as a live dispatch channel.
Read L.C. Knight Release Fields
A useful jail release record should be read as one custody episode, not as a label attached to a person forever. Identity fields help prevent a false match. The booking number joins records from intake to departure. Admission time marks the start of the episode. Charges and bond fields explain authority and possible release routes, but both may change through later court action.
| Field | What it can establish |
|---|---|
| Booking or jail number | Connects the correct Dorchester custody episode |
| Admission date and time | Shows when L.C. Knight custody began |
| Release timestamp | Shows when the county hold ended |
| Release type | May distinguish bond, order, sentence completion, or transfer |
| Destination or detainer | May identify continuing custody under another authority |
| Case number | Links the jail event to the court docket |
The release timestamp is the key historical field. Still, it should be read with release type and destination. A bond amount alone does not prove payment or departure. A charge label does not state the final outcome. For stronger proof, pair the custodian's official release record with the court order or disposition that authorized the event.
About L.C. Knight Jail
Dorchester County says L.C. Knight opened in 2017. The county's FY2026–2030 capital plan identifies the jail at 220 Hodge Road and discusses a proposed or studied expansion. The planning work concerns dormitory and single-cell needs plus possible upgrades in kitchen, laundry, medical, and intake areas. These facts describe the site and its future needs. They do not establish the custody or release of any named person.
L.C. Knight is not Lieber or MacDougall. Those Ridgeville institutions are state prisons operated by SCDC. A person booked at the county jail may later enter the state system after sentencing or transfer, but the databases and record owners change at that point. County booking and release records stay with the Sheriff. State imprisonment and discharge records belong to SCDC.
The county page does not publish a verified 24-hour or 72-hour release archive, and no official retention period for released bookings was found. Do not infer that a record is gone because it is absent from a live view. The durable routes are a focused Sheriff request and the court docket, with VINE used for timely status checks.
Which Dorchester Jail Address Is Current
Address drift is a real local problem. The former Dorchester detention center stood at 100 Sears Street in St. George. County material says demolition began in 2020. That site is not the active jail, a release pickup point, or the destination for current records requests. Old directories and copied listings can still surface it.
The current physical jail is L.C. Knight at 220 Hodge Road in Summerville. The Sheriff's public office and mailing contact is at 212 Deming Way, also in Summerville. Label each address by function. The county's capital plan supports the current jail location and opening history, while the county's former-jail notice documents why Sears Street is obsolete.
Note: confirm the destination with the responsible office before traveling, since a jail, mailing office, courthouse, and records portal serve different tasks.
Choose the Right Dorchester Release System
Dorchester County has an unusual source of search confusion: three physical correctional facilities sit in the county, but they do not share one roster. L.C. Knight is the county jail. Lieber is an SCDC maximum-security state prison. MacDougall is an SCDC medium/minimum-security state prison. The word “Dorchester” therefore cannot choose the database. Custody type must choose it.
Use Sheriff records, the jail phone, SC VINE, and the Dorchester court case for a county-jail event. Use the dedicated SCDC Released Inmate Search for a completed state-prison release. The regular SCDC incarcerated-person tool covers current state custody and excludes released people, county-sentenced people, parole, probation, and other community-supervision cases. PPP and VINE may help when supervision follows state prison.
Federal and immigration tools are conditional paths, not local jail lists. No BOP prison or confirmed ICE detention contract was established in Dorchester County during the research sweep. Use those systems only when an official record identifies that kind of custody or transfer. This source discipline prevents a county release, state discharge, and transfer between agencies from being collapsed into the same event.
Search L.C. Knight Public Records
Begin with the correct custody episode and enough identity detail to avoid a false match. The search below can help locate public-record resources, while the Sheriff, court, and state systems remain the sources to confirm what happened.
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