Pitkin Release Date Meaning
A release date can mean several things in Pitkin County. For a county jail detainee, it may mean the time a bond was posted, a court ordered release, a short sentence ended, or a transfer occurred. For a CDOC prisoner, it may mean a parole date, release date, discharge date, mandatory release, or another date field shown on the offender record. A projected date is not the same as the actual exit time.
Scheduled vs actual. A scheduled or projected release date can change. The actual release is the custody-status change recorded by the jail, CDOC, VINE, or court source.
The current Pitkin County Jail PDF does not publish a projected-release-date field. It is a current-custody roster with fields such as name, age, sex, booking date, offense, and bonds. If a person is still listed, the release has not happened in that public roster. If a person is not listed, confirm the release through the jail, PCSO Records, VINE, and the court docket instead of guessing.
Pitkin County Jail Dates
For a local jail case, the best release-date source is often not an online date field. Call Pitkin County Jail at 970-920-5331 for current custody questions. Use PCSO Records at 970-920-5302 or records@pitkinsheriff.com for a record request tied to a booking. If the release depended on bond, sentence, dismissal, probation, warrant action, or a mittimus, use the Colorado Judicial Branch docket and Pitkin County Combined Court for the legal explanation.
Bond release is the most specific local date factor found in the research. Pitkin County Jail Administration says bonding of currently incarcerated inmates is completed from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., seven days a week. The county Pay a Bond page says online surety bonds use eBonds effective February 27, 2026, require full online payment, and include a 2.9 percent processing fee. Those details help explain a bond-out path, but they do not create a universal release time for all detainees.
| Question | Best Pitkin County Source |
|---|---|
| Is the person still in the jail? | Current-inmate PDF and jail phone line |
| What was the jail release date or reason? | PCSO Records and jail booking record |
| What court action caused release? | Colorado Judicial Branch docket and Pitkin County Combined Court |
| Was the person transferred to CDOC? | CDOC Offender Search and court mittimus record |
CDOC Release Date Lookup
The Colorado Department of Corrections offender search is the statewide tool for people who moved from a Pitkin County case into state prison, parole, release, or discharge. The search accepts DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. DOCNO is the best identifier when available. If searching by name, compare age, physical descriptors, convictions, and dates before treating a result as the right person.
The CDOC Offender Search page is the public entry point for state-prison release and discharge date fields.
CDOC search results are not a Pitkin County recent-release list. They are useful when the person has a state correctional record, not when the person only bonded out of Pitkin County Jail.
- Open the CDOC Offender Search manually.
- Search by DOCNO when known, or by last name, first name, and gender.
- Open the matching result and compare identifiers, convictions, and descriptors.
- Read status, parole, release, and discharge date fields exactly as labeled on the live record.
- If precision is needed, use the official custodian because public fields may not show the full time-computation record.
Colorado Earned Time Rules
Colorado does not make every release date a simple math problem. C.R.S. section 17-22.5-403 sets parole eligibility rules for specified felony and drug felony categories. The general framework can involve eligibility after serving 50 percent of the imposed sentence, less earned time under C.R.S. section 17-22.5-405, but the statute includes exceptions. Some serious offenses have 75 percent service requirements in specified date ranges and offender-history categories. Colorado's post-Proposition-128 framework also created an 85 percent parole-eligibility rule for certain enumerated violent crimes committed on or after January 1, 2025.
Earned time under C.R.S. section 17-22.5-405 can affect parole eligibility and mandatory-release computations. It is not a promise that a set number of days will always come off a sentence. Disciplinary history, programming, offense category, statutory exclusions, custody credits, and current CDOC computation can all matter. Mandatory parole is also separate from physical release. A person may leave prison and still be under parole supervision.
C.R.S. section 17-22.5-405 is the earned-time statute used for the Colorado time-computation discussion.
This statute gives legal context. The person's current CDOC record and official time computation control the individual result.
Why Release Dates Change
A date can move because the underlying record changes. Pitkin County jail releases may depend on bond processing, court orders, new warrants, holds, or transfer timing. CDOC dates may change because of court credits, earned-time gain or loss, parole-board action, detainers, new cases, recalculation, or system transfer. The CDOC Parole Board calendar itself warns that hearings are subject to change and that DOC schedule changes will appear the following business day.
| Factor | How It Can Affect Release |
|---|---|
| Bond or court order | May release a local detainee, delay release, or add conditions before exit. |
| Earned time | May affect parole eligibility or mandatory-release computations under Colorado law. |
| Parole-board action | A hearing may be granted, denied, deferred, rescinded, or otherwise changed. |
| Detainer or transfer | May move the person to another agency instead of a direct community release. |
| Record correction | Court credits, sentence changes, or recalculation can update date fields. |
Pretrial Cases Have No Set Date
A pretrial Pitkin County detainee usually does not have a fixed release date in the way a sentenced prisoner might. Release can turn on bond, a court hearing, dismissal, a changed order, or another agency hold. The jail PDF may show current custody and bonds, but it does not publish a future release date. For a pretrial case, the court docket and jail status are more useful than any projected-date guess.
If the person was sentenced to a short jail term, ask for the actual release record rather than a calculation from public data. PCSO Records can review records under Colorado criminal-justice-records rules, and some material may be redacted or withheld. Court disposition remains separate because PCSO states it does not maintain official court dispositions on arrests.
Pitkin Court Credits and Release
Release-date calculations often depend on records that are not visible in the Pitkin County current-inmate PDF. A court may award presentence confinement credit, amend a sentence, quash a warrant, change bond, or issue a mittimus that sends a person to CDOC. Those case events can change whether a person leaves local jail, stays until another hearing, or moves into state custody. The jail record confirms custody movement, but the court explains the legal reason.
For state prison cases, the court record and CDOC time computation work together. CDOC public fields may show parole, release, or discharge date information as applicable, but the exact computation may depend on sentence class, offense date, earned time, credits, and parole-board action. When public fields do not answer the question, request the official record from the custodian rather than relying on a web estimate.
Weekend Pitkin Release Timing
Pitkin County research did not find a general rule that all releases happen at a set hour, and no public 24-hour or 72-hour release feed was found. The only specific local time window found is the bond-processing window for people currently in the facility. That means weekend or evening questions should be confirmed directly with jail staff. A release can be processed, delayed, or changed by bond payment, court order, another hold, or transfer paperwork.
Use VINE alerts before release when the person is in a covered Colorado jail or CDOC feed, then confirm the final release type through the jail, PCSO Records, or the court. A notification may show that custody changed, but it does not always explain why the date changed.
Confirm a Pitkin Release
Use VINE for custody-status alerts, especially while the person remains in a participating Colorado jail or CDOC facility. Pitkin County's VINE page states that Colorado VINE is free, anonymous, available 24/7/365, and can be reached by phone at 888-263-8463 or online. It covers CDOC and Colorado county jails, with Pitkin County Sheriff's Department, Aspen Police Department, Snowmass Village Police Department, and Town of Basalt Police Department listed in the local participating layer.
Use the VINE Inmate Check page for notification steps, the jail for present custody, PCSO Records for jail release facts, CDOC for state-prison date fields, and the court docket for the case action. That layered approach is slower than a single search box, but it avoids mixing county jail release, prison parole, and court disposition into one unsupported answer.