Projected vs Actual Release
A projected release date is an agency calculation. It is not the same as the actual time a person walks out of a facility. For Alamosa County Jail, the court may set bond or impose a jail sentence, but the jail release record is the source for the physical release date and time. For CDOC, the public offender record may show parole eligibility, release, parole, mandatory release, or discharge fields depending on the case. The label used on the record should control the wording.
Scheduled is not final. Presentence confinement credit, earned time, discipline, parole decisions, detainers, court corrections, and transfer holds can all move a release date.
Find Alamosa Release Dates
Use a short decision tree. If the person is still a pretrial detainee, look for bond, holds, and court orders. If the person is serving a county jail sentence, use the Alamosa Combined Court sentence and the jail record. If the person was sentenced to state prison, use CDOC. If the person was moved to federal or immigration custody, use the federal or ICE path instead of trying to infer a county date.
- Call Alamosa County Jail at 719-589-6608 for current custody, bond routing, and release-processing clues.
- Search the Colorado Judicial Branch docket for bond orders, sentencing, mittimus, warrant, and disposition entries.
- Use CDOC Offender Search when the case became a state-prison or parole case.
- Compare name, DOC number, descriptors, convictions, status, and displayed date fields before relying on a same-name result.
- Register through VINELink Inmate Search when a custody-change alert is more useful than a static date.
- Request the jail booking and release record if the public sources do not show the exact release time or reason.
The Alamosa County released inmates hub covers the full records request process, including the county form, fees, response time, and sealing limits.
CDOC Projected Date Search
CDOC is the main public source for a state-prison projected release or discharge path. It accepts DOC number, last name, first name, and gender. A DOC number is best because names can be common or misspelled. The Colorado Virtual Library summary of CDOC records says public results can include name, age, corrections number, mugshot, descriptors, current convictions, and parole, release, or discharge dates when applicable.
The CDOC offender search screen is shown below. It applies to Colorado state prison and parole records, not to a short Alamosa County jail-only stay.
If the public CDOC record shows parole, the person has been released from prison but remains supervised. If it shows discharged, CDOC supervision has ended under that record. If it shows an active facility, the person is still in state custody.
Colorado Earned Time Rules
C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 is the central earned-time source in the research. The published 2025 version allows earned time of up to ten days for each month of incarceration or parole for certified progress in listed categories. It also includes a higher earned-time framework for some lower-level felony and drug-felony cases that meet program and discipline conditions and are not excluded by offense category. The statute generally limits earned-time reduction to thirty percent except for specified provisions.
Colorado release law changed in 2025 and 2026. Legislative materials in the research discuss earned-time and parole-eligibility amendments, including SB26-158 and SB26-159. Because offense date, conviction date, sentence type, violent-offense status, credits, and effective dates matter, do not calculate a release date from a simple percentage. Use the agency-displayed date, then verify with CDOC or court records when the date controls a deadline.
Alamosa Bond Date Quirk
The most local release-date rule is on the Alamosa County Jail page. It says the sheriff must release a defendant within six hours after qualifying personal recognizance or cash bond events unless extraordinary circumstances exist. It also says supervisory conditions do not justify delay, but the sheriff may hold the defendant up to 24 hours if electronic monitoring must be fitted.
That rule does not create an online projected-release calculator. It explains why a court order, a posted bond, and the actual physical exit can have different times. For a recent bond release, check the court docket for the order and the jail release record for the actual release time.
Why Alamosa Release Dates Change
| Change factor | How it affects release |
|---|---|
| Presentence credit correction | Changes the amount of jail time credited against a sentence. |
| Earned time | May be granted, withheld, withdrawn, restored, or recalculated. |
| Discipline or program status | Can affect credit eligibility and parole review. |
| Parole board action | Grant, denial, deferral, rescission, revocation, or reparole can move the date. |
| Detainers or warrants | Another county, federal agency, ICE, or pending charge can alter the destination. |
| Court correction | Resentencing, mittimus correction, or appeal can change the controlling sentence. |
Violent Sentence Caution
Colorado violent-offense rules are more restrictive than ordinary nonviolent determinate sentences. Research materials note public discussion of Proposition 128 and later legislative changes involving 75 percent or 85 percent style service thresholds for some violent felony sentences. The correct percentage depends on the offense, conviction date, sentence, statute, and effective date.
Use the CDOC displayed computation as the public starting point. Then verify with CDOC or the sentencing court if the date affects travel, custody planning, court filings, or supervision questions.
County Jail Release Dates
Alamosa County Jail does not publish a public sentence-computation tool. For a county sentence, the court's mittimus and the jail release record are the controlling public trail. The docket may show sentence length, time served, presentence confinement credit, probation, or a CDOC sentence. The jail record shows the physical release time. Those two records answer different parts of the same question.
If the person is pretrial, there may be no projected release date at all. The practical release event may depend on bond being set, bond being posted, a personal recognizance order, a hold being cleared, a warrant being quashed, or electronic monitoring being fitted. That is why the local bond six-hour rule matters more for many Alamosa County jail searches than any statewide prison formula.
Verify Alamosa Release Dates
A release date should be verified against the system that owns the custody. For jail custody, use the jail release record and the Alamosa Combined Court case. For state prison, use CDOC and the sentencing court. For parole, use CDOC and the parole calendar or case-manager route. For federal prison, use BOP. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS, ICE/ERO, immigration court information, and the jail transfer record.
When the date is close, avoid relying on only one public screen. VINE can help with alerts, but it may lag. A court order may show release authority, but not the physical release time. CDOC can show a projected or release field, but detainers, discipline, parole action, or sentence corrections can change the result. The strongest answer uses the public locator plus the official record request when precision matters.
Alamosa County Jail Sentences
A short county-jail sentence is not computed in the same public system as a CDOC prison term. The court's mittimus or sentencing order controls the jail commitment. The jail record controls the physical release time. Presentence confinement credit, time served, a sentence modification, a warrant recall, or a transfer can change what the reader expects to see.
If the person was sentenced to probation with jail time, the public proof may be split between the court docket and the probation office. If the person was sentenced to CDOC, the release-date question moves to CDOC. If the person was released on bond before disposition, there may be no sentenced release date at all. The best public answer is the court event plus the jail release record.
Parole Board Date Effects
The Colorado State Board of Parole can affect a state-prison release date through grants, denials, deferrals, rescissions, revocations, and reparole decisions. The public parole calendar page says hearings are subject to change and that modifications made by DOC are available the following business day. It also says public attendance requires advance arrangements.
For Alamosa County cases that became CDOC sentences, the parole date should be read with the CDOC offender record. Parole eligibility is not a promise of release. A parole grant can still require an approved release plan, and pending felony charges, detainers, extraditable warrants, discipline, or program issues can affect release under Colorado parole rules.
Holds That Change Release
A release date can change because the person is not leaving all custody. Alamosa research identifies several non-county paths: CDOC for state-prison sentences, BOP for federal prison, USMS for federal custody and transport, and ICE for immigration detention or processing. A local jail record may show release to another agency, while the community release date remains unresolved in that other system.
This is why an Alamosa projected release check should ask about destination. A court sentence, detainer, extraditable warrant, pending felony charge, ICE hold, or federal pickup can shift the release question away from the county jail. The public record to trust is the record from the agency that has custody after the transfer.