CDOC Release Scope
The facility map includes the Colorado Department of Corrections because a person sentenced from Archuleta County to state prison leaves local custody by transfer. No CDOC prison physically located in Archuleta County was identified in the reviewed sources. That absence does not make CDOC less important. Once the person is accepted into state custody, the county jail is no longer the main release source. The county record may show the transfer, the court record may show the sentence, and the CDOC profile becomes the public custody and supervision locator.
The CDOC Offender Search is the central public search for state-prison offenders. It should be used for people sentenced to CDOC from Archuleta County, not for a person who only bonded out of the Archuleta County Detention Facility. County bond releases, dismissed charges, time-served jail releases, and local court releases remain county jail and court matters unless the person was also committed to state prison.
| Record question | Use CDOC? | Better source when CDOC is not right |
|---|---|---|
| State prison custody or discharge | Yes | CDOC profile, CDOC records, VINE, sentencing court |
| Parole after prison | Yes | CDOC Adult Parole and Parole Board records |
| County jail bond release | No | Sheriff release record and court bond entry |
| Probation instead of prison | No | Court docket and Archuleta County Probation |
| Federal sentence | No | BOP inmate locator and federal court records |
Search CDOC Release Records
CDOC's search form exposes DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. Its Search Tips explain that DOC number is the department's primary identifier and that name searches match names beginning with the letters typed. The tips also say hyphenated last names should be run together. For Archuleta County released inmates who entered state prison, a DOC number from the sentencing paperwork is the strongest search key.
Use this order for a state-prison release check:
- Search by DOCNO when the number is known from court, CDOC, or prior records.
- If DOCNO is unknown, search by last name and first name, then use gender only as a narrowing field.
- Compare the profile to the Archuleta County sentencing court record before relying on a name match.
- Review any visible status, facility, parole, discharge, or release-related information without inventing field labels that are not shown.
- Use CDOC contact or official records channels for certified time-computation or disputed release information.
The CDOC search disclaimer warns that the database can contain inaccurate information and tells users to contact CDOC to confirm all information. That disclaimer matters for every release-date question. The public search is a locator and status tool, not a certified sentence calculation.
Colorado DOC Contact
CDOC is a statewide system, so this facility page uses agency search routes rather than a local jail address. The most useful public contact points are the offender search, search tips, parole-board tab, Colorado VINE, and the sentencing court record from Archuleta County. For a person transferred from the Archuleta County Detention Facility, keep both the court case number and the DOC number if available.
Colorado Department of Corrections
Public search: CDOC Offender Search
Search tips: CDOC Search Tips
Parole Board tab: CDOC Parole Board calendar
Colorado VINE: VINELink Colorado
The manifest image source for this state-prison page is the Colorado drug felony mandatory parole statute at C.R.S. section 18-1.3-401.5.
Mandatory parole is one reason a CDOC release can be misunderstood. A person may leave a prison facility and still remain under state sentence supervision.
CDOC Parole and Discharge
Colorado release terms are not interchangeable. Parole is state supervision after a prison sentence or parole decision. Mandatory parole can begin after release from imprisonment for many felony and drug felony sentences. Discharge is the end of a sentence or supervision obligation under the applicable authority. A person released from prison to parole is not the same as a person discharged from the Colorado sentence. The Parole / Probation page is the natural sibling when the question is supervision after release.
C.R.S. section 17-22.5-403 supplies a parole-eligibility framework for many Colorado sentences, while C.R.S. section 17-22.5-405 governs earned time. The research also notes that certain violent-offense categories can have higher service requirements. These rules are sentence-specific. Do not apply a single percentage to every Archuleta County person committed to CDOC. The public CDOC profile may help, but the court sentence and CDOC records control the final computation.
- Parole eligibility
- The point when a person may be considered for parole under statute and sentence rules.
- Mandatory parole
- A required parole period that follows release from imprisonment for many Colorado felony sentences.
- Discharge
- The end of custody or supervision obligations under the sentence being checked.
CDOC Parole Board Calendar
The CDOC Offender Search application includes a Parole Board tab. The research describes monthly calendars, a month selector, future months after scheduling is set, and a warning that hearings are subject to change. It also says modifications made by DOC will be available the following business day and that public attendance requires advance arrangements. For Archuleta County release checks, this calendar can show hearing context, but it is not a stand-alone release outcome database.
Use the parole calendar with the offender profile and court sentence. A listed hearing may be granted, denied, deferred, continued, rescinded, or tied to revocation issues. A hearing date alone does not prove release. If the public profile does not answer the status question, CDOC or the official records custodian should be used for confirmation. VINE can also provide custody-change notifications where the CDOC feed is available, but VINE is not the official sentence file.
Archuleta Jail to CDOC
When the Archuleta County Detention Facility releases a person to CDOC, the county event is a transfer. The court sentence or mittimus explains why the person left the county jail. From that point forward, the later prison release must be checked through CDOC, parole records, VINE, and the sentencing court. Searching JailTracker for a later state-prison release will usually miss the point because the jail record covers local custody, not the entire state sentence.
The best Archuleta County workflow is to keep the sources in sequence: court sentence first, county transfer record second, CDOC profile third, parole-board or parole status fourth, and VINE notifications when ongoing custody-change alerts are needed. If the person is not found in CDOC, the case may have ended at county jail, probation, dismissal, another state, federal custody, or a sealed/nonpublic status. Return to the court record before assuming the transfer path.
The second CDOC manifest image source is C.R.S. section 24-72-703 on sealing criminal justice records.
Sealing can affect what ordinary public searches show, so a missing public result should be reconciled with court and official records when the case history is known.