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Appling ITF Release Routes

Appling Integrated Treatment Facility, often shortened to Appling ITF, is operated within the Georgia Department of Corrections system. It is not Appling County Jail. A resident may complete the residential treatment program, move to another GDC location, return under revocation or court action, or leave state confinement under parole or probation supervision. Each outcome produces a different combination of corrections, court, parole, and supervision records.

A physical departure from the Baxley site is not enough to prove community release. GDC may record a transfer to a host or receiving facility. The sentencing court may document program completion, revocation, or a modified order. When parole applies, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles controls the release decision, and the Department of Community Supervision handles community supervision. The county sheriff does not set or certify a state offender's discharge from Appling ITF.

Search an Appling ITF Release

The GDC Find an Offender tool is the first public search. It accepts a name, description, GDC ID, or case number. An ID is the most precise key. With a name search, compare age, description, case details, offense, and GDC number before choosing a result. A similar name alone is weak identification.

1. Open the official GDC offender search and enter the GDC ID if known.
2. Otherwise search by first and last name, then narrow with descriptive or case fields.
3. Open the matching record and review status, current or prior facility, sentence, charge, and release-date fields.
4. Check whether Appling ITF appears as the facility and whether a later location indicates transfer.
5. If release or no current facility is shown, check the Parole Board and DCS for active supervision.
6. Reconcile the result with the sentencing court when completion, revocation, or jail credit is disputed.

GDC says offender photographs appear automatically when available. It also warns that public search data is provided for convenience and should be verified before factual reliance. Written confirmation goes to Inmate Records and Information, P.O. Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. Include the full name, GDC ID, date of birth if known, sentencing county, and the exact release or discharge fact sought.

Appling ITF Contact Record

GDC's facility page supplies the physical and mailing addresses. The public listing gives a fax number, while a second GDC facility information page provides a local phone. GDC's central inmate concerns line is another route for state-level questions. A call can help identify the right office, but an exact discharge fact may require the offender record or written verification.

The official GDC Appling ITF page is the controlling facility source. For a record request, identify the offender and describe whether the needed fact is status, release date, discharge, prior location, program completion, or transfer. A broad request for “all records” can draw sensitive or exempt material and may not answer the release question as clearly as a focused request.

When the issue is a sentence or credit calculation, GDC's family guidance says the offender may speak with a counselor and use the grievance process. It also notes that county jail credit issues may require contact with the clerk in the county of conviction. That court may not be Appling County merely because the treatment facility is in Baxley.

Note: The facility's Baxley address identifies its location, but the sentencing county and supervision assignment may belong elsewhere in Georgia.

Inside Appling ITF

GDC classifies Appling ITF as a medium-security Residential Substance Abuse Treatment center for adult male felons and probationers. The official facility detail lists capacity at 206. It was constructed in 2003 and opened in 2006. GDC identifies Ware State Prison as the host facility, a fact that helps explain why records and transfers may involve the wider state system rather than a stand-alone county operation.

The mission targets chronic substance abuse and crime through cognitive-behavioral treatment, mental-health services, work, structured living, and reentry needs. “RSAT” means Residential Substance Abuse Treatment. A program milestone should not be read as an automatic release date. Court orders, sentence status, supervision terms, institutional conduct, and GDC placement decisions still govern what follows.

The official source shows the facility context.

The GDC page confirms that Appling ITF is a state treatment setting, which directs every release search away from a county recent-release list.

Appling ITF Status Fields

A state offender record can carry several facts that must not be collapsed into one “released” label. Facility location answers where GDC reports the person. Status identifies the state record's current wording. Sentence and charge details help match the person. A release date or maximum release date may show a corrections calculation, while a parole Tentative Parole Month is only a review marker.

A Tentative Parole Month, or TPM, is not a final release order. The Parole Board describes it as the month of final review, when a parole release date may be set if appropriate. Misconduct, unmet program terms, a detainer, or an unverified residence plan can change the result. Record the exact field label rather than restating a TPM as a promised release date.

Appling ITF Supervision After Release

Release from state confinement can begin another legal stage. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles makes parole decisions. Since July 2015, the Georgia Department of Community Supervision has supervised parolees in the community and also handles adult felony probation. A released Appling ITF resident may therefore have reporting duties even though no longer housed at the facility.

Use the Parole Board's inmate TPM lookup before release and its parolee database after a parole release. For field-office questions, use the DCS office finder and the supervising paperwork. Research did not identify an Appling-only DCS field office entry. Assignment follows the person's residence and supervision plan, not merely the location of Appling ITF or the county of conviction.

Parole

Conditional release from prison under a Board decision.

Probation

Court-ordered community supervision, which may include treatment terms.

Discharge

The recorded end of a custody or supervision term.

Revocation

A court or authority withdraws community placement after a violation process.

A release record should be reconciled with supervision status. “Out of GDC prison” and “free of all state supervision” are not interchangeable claims.

Appling Versus Appling County

Appling County creates a distinct search trap. Appling ITF is in Baxley, which is in Appling County. Separate search results for “Appling, Georgia” may point to the community named Appling in Columbia County and to Columbia County's jail. Those records do not concern this facility. Use the full terms “Appling ITF, Baxley” and “Appling County” when checking a custody record.

The same naming care separates Appling ITF from Appling County Jail. The jail is operated by the county sheriff and handles local bookings. Appling ITF is a GDC state treatment facility. A person can have an old Appling County Jail booking and a later GDC placement, but the resulting records remain distinct. The Appling County Jail release route applies only to the county booking.

Verify the operator, street address, GDC number, and current or prior facility field before contacting an office. These details prevent a state discharge question from being sent to a county sheriff, and they prevent a Baxley facility search from drifting into Columbia County data.

Appling ITF Court Verification

The sentencing court can clarify why a person entered the program and what followed. A docket or order may show a treatment condition, revocation, amended sentence, completion finding, probation term, or credit issue. GDC records the correctional status, while the court records the legal orders. Neither should be forced to answer the other's part of the case.

If the conviction came from Appling County, the Appling County Clerk maintains Superior and State Court records and accepts requests for public case material. If another county imposed the sentence or probation term, contact that county's clerk. Juvenile, sealed, or restricted records may not be open through an ordinary search. A missing public result does not establish that no order exists.

Keep the request specific. Ask for the docket, sentencing order, revocation order, probation order, or completion document for the identified case. Compare dates and case numbers with the GDC record. This method distinguishes program completion, state transfer, parole release, probation placement, and final discharge without relying on a single vague status word.