Prince George's County Community Release Center Overview
The Prince George's County Community Release Center is part of the Prince George's County Department of Corrections Community Corrections Division. It is located at 4605 Brown Station Road in Upper Marlboro and opened in 2018. The county describes the program as a way for offenders to work or apply for jobs during the day and spend nights in the facility, allowing employment, family support, and accountability to continue while the person remains in the criminal justice system.
The Community Release Center should not be treated as the county's intake jail. New arrestees and people committed to the Department for ordinary pretrial or local sentence custody are associated with the Prince George's County Correctional Center at 13400 Dille Drive. The Brown Station Road facility is a community-corrections setting for people whose status permits work release or related supervision. A lookup should therefore start with program status and county corrections contact, then expand to court records, MPIA, and state or federal locators only when the person's custody path changes.
The Community Corrections Division also includes the Community Service Program and Re-entry Services Unit. Community Service gives courts an alternative to traditional incarceration for minor offenses by identifying community-service locations, enrolling offenders, and monitoring court-ordered hours. Re-entry Services provides discharge planning for people sentenced to the County Correctional Center by identifying and coordinating services needed upon release. These connected units explain why Community Release Center questions often involve employment schedules, court conditions, discharge plans, and supervision terms rather than booking photographs or jail roster profiles.
Prince George's County Community Release Center Capacity and Population
The county Community Corrections Division page gives the Community Release Center capacity as more than 60 individuals. That figure is separate from the Correctional Center's adult jail capacity figures and should not be combined with the Dille Drive jail's FY2018 capacity count. The people held at the Community Release Center are court-authorized offenders who can work or apply for work during the day and spend nights in custody, not a full intake population of newly arrested defendants.
No official daily population dashboard for the Community Release Center was located in the reviewed sources. The best practice for a current status question is to contact the Department of Corrections main line or the community supervision general information line. If the person's court order changed, if the person failed to return, or if the person moved back to the Correctional Center, the custody route may shift to the jail information line, Maryland Judiciary Case Search, or the MPIA records process.
How to Look Up a Participant at Prince George's County Community Release Center
There is no located public online roster specific to the Community Release Center. Use county corrections channels first. The main Department of Corrections public number is 301-952-7164, and the community supervision general information line is 301-952-7276. If the person may have been moved back to ordinary jail custody, use the Correctional Center jail operations information line at 301-952-4800. If a court order or filed criminal case is the issue, search Maryland Judiciary Case Search for Prince George's District Court or Circuit Court records.
- Call community supervision general information at 301-952-7276 for Community Release Center or community-corrections routing.
- Use 301-952-7164 if the question is broader Department of Corrections contact or facility direction.
- If the person appears to be in the county jail instead of work release, call 301-952-4800 for Correctional Center jail information.
- Search Maryland Judiciary Case Search for the court case, release conditions, hearing activity, or charge history connected to the work-release placement.
- For records not provided by phone or court search, use the county MPIA portal or Corrections records custodian Captain Damian Green at 301-952-7304.
A state or federal locator is usually not the first tool for the Community Release Center. If the person has been sentenced to Maryland state custody and transferred to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction, use the Maryland DPSCS Incarcerated Individual Locator. If the person is in federal sentenced custody or immigration detention, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS. For custody-change notifications, VINELink may be useful.
Prince George's County Community Release Center Address and Contact
The Community Release Center contact path should distinguish program supervision from ordinary jail operations. A family member trying to confirm work-release status should begin with community supervision or the Department of Corrections. A person trying to find a newly arrested defendant should start with the Correctional Center information line instead. A person trying to understand a warrant should contact the Prince George's County Office of the Sheriff, which is a separate elected law-enforcement agency.
Prince George's County Community Release Center
4605 Brown Station Road
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
301-952-7164
Community supervision general information: 301-952-7276
County jail information if transferred to Dille Drive: 301-952-4800
Corrections MPIA custodian: Captain Damian Green, 301-952-7304
Visiting Someone at Prince George's County Community Release Center
Published research for Prince George's County provides detailed public visitation rules for the Correctional Center, including the current virtual-only public visitation notice, but it does not provide a separate public visiting schedule for the Community Release Center. Because the Community Release Center is a work-release and community-corrections facility, visiting or contact rules may depend on program status, court conditions, work schedule, transportation, and supervision requirements. Confirm current access directly before arriving at Brown Station Road.
If the person has been moved to the Correctional Center, the jail visitation framework applies: public in-person visitation is not currently offered in the county notice, all ordinary visits are virtual, and assistance is listed at 301-952-7025. Attorneys, paralegals, and bondsmen follow professional-visitor rules for the jail, including limits during lockdowns and emergencies. Those professional rules should not be assumed to create public visiting access at the Community Release Center unless staff confirm the person is there and eligible.
| Contact Situation | Current Route | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community Release Center participant | Confirm through 301-952-7276 or 301-952-7164 | Ask about program-specific contact rules before traveling. |
| Moved back to Correctional Center | Call jail information at 301-952-4800 | Correctional Center public visits are virtual under the county notice. |
| Attorney or professional contact | Confirm with Department staff | Professional visit rules differ from public family contact. |
| Bond-related question | Call 301-952-7102 after 5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday if bond review occurred | Bond review is a court-related custody status issue. |
| Warrant question | Call Sheriff at 301-780-8600 | The Sheriff handles warrants, not Community Release Center intake. |
Mail, Phone, Money, and Services at Prince George's County Community Release Center
The located county materials do not publish a separate Community Release Center commissary deposit fee table. The detailed money, mail, and phone rules in the research belong to the Correctional Center and should be applied there, not automatically copied to the work-release facility. For a participant at Brown Station Road, confirm whether money, property, mail, and phone access are handled through program staff, through the main Department of Corrections, or through a transfer back to the Correctional Center.
The documented purpose of the Community Release Center is more service-oriented than commissary-oriented. The program allows eligible offenders to work or apply for jobs during the day and return to custody at night. The Community Corrections Division's broader work includes re-entry planning, community-service coordination, and supervision. Records, program status, and compliance are often more important than a traditional jail deposit question.
| Service | Documented Detail |
|---|---|
| Work release | Participants may work or apply for jobs during the day and spend nights in the facility. |
| Community supervision | General information line: 301-952-7276. |
| Re-entry Services Unit | Provides discharge planning for people sentenced to the County Correctional Center. |
| Community Service Program | Identifies community-service sites, enrolls offenders, and monitors court-ordered hours. |
| Mail or money | No separate public fee schedule located for the Community Release Center; confirm through Department staff. |
Admission and Program Status at Prince George's County Community Release Center
The Community Release Center is not the first stop for every person arrested in Prince George's County. Street arrests and new commitments are associated with the county Correctional Center process, where property and money are inventoried, telephone calls are allowed during processing, and Population Management maintains case files and classification records. The Community Release Center is a later community-corrections placement when a person's court status and program eligibility allow that option.
A practical status check should account for several possibilities. The person may be actively assigned to work release at Brown Station Road. The person may have been returned to the Correctional Center after a schedule, compliance, warrant, hold, or court-status change. The person may have been released, sentenced, or transferred into state custody. The court record may show a hearing or order before the custody office can disclose details. Use the community supervision line, jail information line, court search, and MPIA process in that order unless the facts clearly point elsewhere.
When a court or supervising agency authorizes work release, the daily rhythm differs from ordinary detention. The county describes participants as working or applying for work during the day and spending nights in the facility. That arrangement supports employment and family obligations while maintaining custody. It also means a person may not be physically present during ordinary daytime hours, so arrival at the facility without a confirmed appointment or staff direction can waste a trip.
About Prince George's County Community Release Center
The Community Release Center opened in 2018 and serves as a local bridge between custody and community supervision. It fits within a broader Prince George's County re-entry strategy: the Department of Corrections says its community-corrections work is meant to improve inmate well-being, prepare people to return to the community, reduce recidivism, and keep people out of the judicial system after release. That work is distinct from the Sheriff's warrant functions and from the Maryland DPSCS state-prison system.
Upper Marlboro geography can still matter. The Correctional Center is at 13400 Dille Drive, the Community Release Center is on Brown Station Road, the Circuit Court and State's Attorney are on Main Street, and the Sheriff's Office is on Chrysler Way. A family may need more than one office depending on whether the question is current custody, work-release status, a court case, prosecution, or a warrant. For Community Release Center matters, start with Department of Corrections and community supervision contacts before using wider state or federal searches.
Note: Confirm program status, contact rules, and location with county corrections before traveling to Brown Station Road.