Find Lycoming County Pre-Release Center Residents

Pre-Release Center Overview

The Lycoming County Pre-Release Center page describes a structured community corrections treatment program under county and state work release and pre-release laws. It is not a public roster replacement for Lycoming County Prison. The center serves residents who have been approved for work release, work crew, community service, education, drug and alcohol counseling, life-skills training, and related activities while still under county authority.

The facility is tied to the county prison system, but it has a different role from the downtown county jail. Lycoming County Prison is the main intake and local jail facility. The Pre-Release Center is a lower-restriction, structured setting for selected residents. Some people may move between the prison and the Pre-Release Center as classification, conduct, program status, court orders, or sentence rules change.

County meeting notices identify the center as being in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. The official page reviewed for this build did not publish a full street address, so no street address is stated here. The county lists a fax number for the center and connects basic public routing back to the main prison line. That is why immediate custody questions begin with VINE, the main prison phone number, or a focused Right-to-Know request when the record is not online.

Pre-Release Center Capacity

Lycoming County publishes unusually clear unit counts for the Pre-Release Center. The official page describes a male Work Release and Work Crew unit and a female Work Release and Work Crew unit. Together, those stated housing counts total 137 work release or work crew beds. The Prison Policy Initiative correctional facility locator separately lists a local correctional population count of 74 in Census 2020 vintage data tied to older facility data, so it works as context, not as a current daily count.

The April 2024 Prison Board population snapshot also helps explain how the Pre-Release Center fits within county custody. The minutes reported male PRC average daily population of 37.57 and female PRC average daily population of 7.57 within the broader prison system count. Those figures show that the center is part of the local custody picture, but it is still distinct from the jail blocks and from state prison custody at SCI Muncy.

Lookup Pre-Release Center Residents

The Pre-Release Center does not have a separate public roster in the research. Use the county-linked Pennsylvania VINE person search for custody status, then call the main Lycoming County Prison line if VINE does not show the resident or does not identify the facility. VINE can help with custody notifications, but the center's work-release status, job-site schedule, and program details may not be shown in a public record.

1. Search Pennsylvania VINE through the county-linked inmate search route.
2. Use the person's full legal name and any known inmate number or court information.
3. Call the main prison line to ask whether public staff can confirm current county custody or facility placement.
4. Search Pennsylvania UJS if the question is about charges, sentence, bail, or court dates.
5. File a focused Lycoming County Right-to-Know request for non-online records that the county can lawfully release.

Do not use the PA DOC locator as the first route for a Pre-Release Center resident unless the person may have moved to state prison or state parole. The Pre-Release Center is county custody, while PA DOC covers state-sentenced inmates and parolees. If a person was transferred to SCI Muncy or another state facility, the state locator becomes the correct system.

The official Pre-Release Center page is the source for the work-release housing, program, schedule, and work-site rules shown here.

The county page is especially important for this facility because its schedule and job-site limits differ from ordinary jail visiting rules.

Pre-Release Center Contact

The research found Montoursville as the location from county materials, but not a full public street address on the official Pre-Release Center page. For that reason, use the main prison line for public routing and do not rely on a guessed address for travel or mail. The center's fax number is published in the research, and public records requests still route through Lycoming County's Right-to-Know process rather than an informal drop-off.

Work-release contact rules are stricter than many people expect. The county says visits or communication with family and friends are permitted only while the resident is at the Pre-Release Center, not at a work or job site. Nothing may be dropped off at job sites. Employers, family members, and visitors cannot treat a resident's workplace as a custody contact point.

Pre-Release Center Visitation

Pre-Release Center visitation is unit specific. The schedule separates female visitation, Work Crew A-Hall rooms, Work Crew C-Hall, and Work Release. That unit-by-unit schedule is more exact than a general jail visiting window, so visitors should know the resident's group before arriving. The county also states that contact at job sites is not allowed, which is a major difference from many informal expectations about work release.

Because the schedule depends on where the resident is housed, verify the unit before visiting. Note: Do not attempt to visit, call, deliver items, or pass messages at a resident's job site.

Pre-Release Mail and Costs

Mail and account questions for the Pre-Release Center route through the county prison system unless staff gives a different current instruction. The research does not show a separate public mail vendor or separate money portal for Pre-Release Center residents. County prison mail for handwritten non-legal mail uses TextBehind, while county phone, tablet, and deposit services can involve ConnectNetwork and GettingOut. Confirm the resident's current facility before sending funds because a county jail account is not the same as a PA DOC state prison account.

The center has program costs that are specific to work release. Lycoming County says work-release residents are charged for room, board, drug testing, and approved expenses. Residents are expected to pay toward those costs, fines or restitution, and child support. Those rules are part of the work-release model because residents may have approved employment while still under county supervision.

Pre-Release Center Placement

Placement in the Pre-Release Center is not the same as a street-arrest booking. The person normally enters county custody through jail intake, court commitment, sentencing, or another legal order first. After classification and approval, a resident may be placed in work release, work crew, community service, or other structured programs. Work release means a person remains in custody but may leave for approved employment under rules set by the county.

Program placement can change. A court order, rule violation, job loss, safety issue, treatment issue, new charge, detainer, or classification decision can move a person back to Lycoming County Prison. A detainer is a hold from another court or agency that can affect release even when a local sentence or program status changes. That is why VINE, prison staff, and court dockets may all be needed to understand current status.

Work release

Custody status that allows approved employment outside the center under strict rules.

Work crew

Supervised work assignment tied to county custody rather than private job-site freedom.

Pre-release

Structured community corrections status before full release from county supervision.

Pre-Release Center Programs

The Pre-Release Center supports work release, educational programs, drug and alcohol counseling, life-skills training, community service, and recreational activities. Those programs connect to Lycoming County's broader reentry work. The county Re-Entry Coalition focuses on education, families, health services, treatment, employment, mentorship, and housing for people returning from incarceration.

Employment is a major part of the center's local role. Research notes from the Re-Entry Coalition include goals such as identifying residents likely to retain work-release employment, offering soft-skills training at the Pre-Release Center, finding employer partners, and increasing jobs or employment within 60 days. Those goals explain why the center is treated separately from the main jail facility page.