Find Hinsdale County Release Dates

Hinsdale County Projected vs Actual Release

A projected release date is a planned or calculated date. It is not the same as the actual release date. In Colorado state-prison records, a projected date can be affected by earned time, parole eligibility, parole-board action, sentence changes, disciplinary events, consecutive sentences, jail credit, detainers, and statutory restrictions. In a Hinsdale County jail case, the release date may be set by bond, court order, time served, sentence served, transfer, extradition, DOC transport, or a hold being lifted.

Pretrial detainees are the clearest example. They may not have any set date at all. Their release may depend on posting bond, a personal-recognizance order, a hearing, a warrant recall, a dismissed charge, or another agency's hold. A sentenced CDOC prisoner is different. The CDOC offender record may show parole eligibility, release, parole, statutory discharge, mandatory release, or a projected or tentative date field. Preserve that exact label.

Find a Hinsdale County Release Date

Start with the custody type. CDOC is the official source for Colorado state-prison date fields and many parole or discharge records. HCSO and the court are the source for a Hinsdale County jail release date when the person was booked locally and did not enter state prison. Colorado VINE can notify when a custody status changes in a participating feed, but it should be treated as a status alert rather than a full sentence-computation record.

1. Decide whether the person is in county jail, state prison, parole custody, federal custody, or another system.
2. For a county jail case, ask HCSO records for the booking and release record, including release date, release reason, and receiving agency if transferred.
3. Check the Colorado Judicial Branch docket search for hearings that may explain bond, sentencing, warrant recall, or release orders.
4. For a state-prison sentence, use the CDOC offender search by DOC number when available, or by name, DOB, and gender.
5. Copy the exact CDOC label, such as parole date, release date, statutory discharge date, or projected date, rather than renaming it.
6. Use VINELink release check alerts when the person is still in custody or had a recent custody event.

The CDOC search-tips page says the DOC number is CDOC's primary identifier and can be up to six numeric characters. It also says DOB should be entered in mm/dd/yyyy format and that the date checkbox searches six months before and after the entered date. Name searches return names beginning with the letters entered, so broad name searches can produce false matches.

The Colorado Virtual Library description of the offender database says CDOC results may include identifiers, a mugshot, parole, release, or discharge dates when applicable, and current convictions.

That field list is useful for state cases, but it does not prove a short Hinsdale County jail release unless the person also entered CDOC custody or parole.

Hinsdale County CDOC Date Labels

CDOC is not a county-jail roster. It is the Colorado state-prison and parole search path. It matters for Hinsdale County when a local case results in a state sentence, when a person from a Hinsdale case is in DOC custody, when a parolee is arrested locally, or when a released state prisoner is supervised in the region. If the person left the Hinsdale County Jail because of bond, time served, or a local court order, CDOC may have no record of that release.

Use the label shown on the record. A parole eligibility date is not the same as a release date. A mandatory release date is not the same as sentence discharge. A statutory discharge date is different from release to parole. If the record shows a facility, the person may still be in custody. If the record shows parole, the person may be out of prison but still under CDOC Adult Parole. If the record shows discharged, the relevant CDOC sentence or supervision term has ended.

Parole eligibility date

The point when a person may be considered under the applicable parole rules. It does not guarantee release.

Mandatory release date

A Colorado parole-rule concept for a release to parole over which the Board has no discretion.

Statutory discharge date

A date tied to the end of the sentence or supervision term shown in the record.

Release date

The date the agency reports a release event. Confirm what system released the person.

Hinsdale County Earned Time Rules

Colorado earned time is one reason a CDOC projected release date can differ from a simple sentence-length calculation. Colorado Revised Statutes section 17-22.5-405 allows earned time to be deducted from a sentence when progress categories are demonstrated and certified. The standard provision does not exceed ten days per month. The statute also allows up to twelve days per month in certain class 4, class 5, class 6 felony, and level 3 or 4 drug felony circumstances, subject to the statutory conditions.

Do not assume every person earns the maximum. Earned time depends on progress and certification, and it can be lost or not awarded. It also does not erase the difference between parole eligibility and release. A Hinsdale County projected release date for a state prisoner should therefore be read from CDOC, not recalculated from a sentence length alone.

Colorado also has special rules for listed violent offenses. Section 17-22.5-303.3 includes a seventy-five-percent framework for specified pre-2025 circumstances, less authorized earned time, and for listed offenses committed on or after January 1, 2025, states parole eligibility begins after serving eighty-five percent of the sentence imposed. Offense date and offense type both matter.

Note: The percentage rule is a parole-eligibility issue. It should not be used as a shortcut for a county jail release date.

Hinsdale County Jail Date Limits

Research did not locate a Hinsdale-specific county jail good-time rule, weekend-release policy, or public release-date calculator. That absence is important. A county jail release can be set by bond posting, sentence served, time served, credit for time served, a judge's order, transfer to another agency, extradition, DOC transport, or a lifted hold. These are local custody and court events, not CDOC time-computation fields.

For Hinsdale County Jail, use HCSO records and the court file. HCSO lists records@hinsdalecountysheriff.com, a business-hours main number, fax, and mailing address. The Colorado Judicial Branch lists the Hinsdale County Courthouse in Lake City and provides clerk contact details. A request should ask for the booking and release record, release date and time, release reason, court case number, and receiving agency if the person was transferred.

Why Hinsdale Release Dates Change

A projected date is a living field until release occurs. CDOC may adjust a state date because of earned time, sentence recalculation, parole-board action, disciplinary events, consecutive sentences, jail credit, detainers, or a court order. County dates move for different reasons, often because bond, hearing results, or holds change. The safest reading is to ask which agency controls the date, then verify with that agency.

Hinsdale County Mandatory Release to Parole

Mandatory release is often misunderstood. Colorado parole-board rules define Mandatory Release Date as a parole-release date over which the Board has no discretion and that mandates release to parole. That does not mean the person is free of supervision. It means the person leaves prison to parole. For a Hinsdale County state-prison case, that distinction affects where to look next: CDOC Adult Parole rather than a closed jail record alone.

The ticket-of-leave statute adds a state-prison release detail. Section 17-22.5-202 says that ten days before a person in a correctional facility is entitled to discharge or parole, the executive director or designee gives a ticket of leave entitling the person to depart. That is state correctional-facility language. It should not be applied to Hinsdale County Jail unless HCSO confirms a local rule.

The CDOC Parole Board schedule page is useful when a projected date depends on a parole application, rescission, or revocation path.

Use the schedule as a hearing path, then return to the person-specific CDOC record or Board record for the actual outcome.

Confirm Hinsdale County Release Date

Confirmation is source-specific. A Hinsdale County Jail release date is confirmed through HCSO records or the court case. A Colorado state-prison projected release date is confirmed through CDOC. A parole decision or revocation-related date is confirmed through CDOC and parole-board records. A custody-status alert can be checked through Colorado VINE, but older releases and release reasons should be confirmed by the sheriff, court, or corrections agency.

When making a request, include only the identifiers needed to match the person: full name, date range, case number if known, booking number or DOC number if known, and the record being sought. Ask for the release date, release time if available, release reason, and any receiving agency if the person was transferred. If the record uses a technical label, keep that label in notes so parole, release, and discharge do not get blended together.