Search Garfield County Released Inmates

Garfield County Released Inmates

A Garfield County release is an end to one custody status, not always the end of a case or sentence. The Garfield County Detention Facility in Glenwood Springs is the county jail for adult male and female inmates booked by the sheriff and law-enforcement agencies in the county. A person may leave that jail after bond is posted, a court orders release, a local sentence is served, a hold ends, a case is dismissed, or another agency takes custody. Once that person is no longer held in the jail, the live custody list is no longer the full answer.

Garfield County also has a state prison, Rifle Correctional Center, and a local community corrections and work-release program near Rifle. Those systems do not use the same release record. A county jail release is confirmed through the sheriff's recent-release block, jail records, court documents, and VINE. A state prison release is checked through the Colorado Department of Corrections offender search and parole sources. A federal or immigration transfer needs BOP, ICE, USMS, or court records. Keeping those paths separate prevents a common Garfield County mistake: using the jail PDF to look for a person who was actually released from CDOC, or using CDOC to look for a county-only detainee.

Garfield County Release Types

The sheriff's public PDF can confirm that a person moved out of jail custody when the name is still visible in the Recent Releases block. It does not say why the person left. The reason comes from the booking sheet, court docket, bond record, jail record, or the next custody system. A release by bond is different from a sentence-completion release. A transfer to CDOC or ICE is different from release to the community. A probation order is different from parole after prison.

Garfield County Release Record Fields

The public release evidence for a recent Garfield County Jail release is the top Recent Releases block in the current-inmates PDF. That block is useful but narrow. It shows the person's name, gender, and release date. It does not show release time, release reason, charges, destination, bond amount, booking number, or a booking photo in the text-extracted research. The current-custody portion of the same PDF has more fields, including booking date, days in custody, charge description, and booking number, but that section is not a past-release archive.

A fuller Garfield County release record usually requires the Sheriff's Records Division or the court. The booking sheet can tie a released person to a booking number, charges, custody dates, and identity fields. The court docket can explain whether release came from bond, dismissal, sentencing, probation, warrant recall, or a DOC mittimus. VINE can add a custody-change alert, but it is not the long-term archive.

Obtain Garfield County Release Records

The formal county path is the Garfield County Sheriff's Office Records Division. The records page says requests require a signed form and a photocopy of the requestor's license or identification card, and payment must be received before records are released. The Garfield County records request form includes checkboxes for Booking photo and Booking Sheet. For a release search, the request should be narrow: ask for the booking sheet, release date, release reason or type if releasable, bond or court-order references if releasable, and the booking photo only when it is needed for identity confirmation.

1. Gather the full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, approximate release date, and booking number if the PDF showed one.
2. Complete the sheriff request form and identify the exact documents, such as booking sheet, release information, or booking photo.
3. Send the request to the Records Division by the channel listed by the sheriff, including the required identification copy and any fee instructions.
4. Use the court docket when the release reason depends on bond, dismissal, sentence credit, probation, or a DOC sentence.

The sheriff states that records staff typically respond within three business days. If releasable records require more time, the department sets a later availability date. For CORA-defined public records, the extension is no more than seven additional business days. Fees listed by the sheriff include reports at $0.25 per page, adult arrest photos at $1.25 per photo, a $5 local clearance letter, and a $100 extensive-research deposit when needed.

Garfield County Record Law

Colorado release-record requests often sit under the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act, while general administrative records may fall under CORA. The Colorado Attorney General identifies CORA as C.R.S. 24-72-200.1 to 205 and CCJRA as C.R.S. 24-72-301 to 309. The sheriff's request form quotes C.R.S. 24-72-305.5 and requires a signed statement for criminal justice records. It also quotes C.R.S. 24-72-309 as the violation provision. These rules matter because the custodian can restrict or deny records when the statute or public interest requires it.

Colorado court sealing resources also affect release research. The Colorado Judicial Branch sealing form JDF 611 covers sealing conviction records in a single case, and the State Public Defender resource describes categories that may become eligible after waiting periods. A sealed case may make a docket harder to view, while jail, DOC, registry, or agency records may still have separate access rules.

Find Garfield County Released Inmates

The best Garfield County released inmate search starts by deciding which system last held the person. If the person was in the Garfield County Detention Facility, start with the sheriff's current-inmates page and PDF. If the person was sentenced to Colorado prison or released from Rifle Correctional Center, use CDOC. If the person was on probation, use court and probation sources. If the person was federal or immigration custody, use the federal tools.

1. Open the Garfield County Sheriff's current-inmates page and the linked PDF.
2. Check the top Recent Releases block before reading the current in-custody list.
3. Capture the PDF timestamp because the sheriff says the report updates automatically every two hours.
4. If the person is gone from the visible recent block, request the booking sheet and release information from sheriff records.
5. Check the Colorado Judicial Branch docket search for bond, sentence, dismissal, probation, warrant, or mittimus events.
6. Use CDOC, VINE, BOP, ICE, or USMS only when the facts point to state, notification, federal, immigration, or marshal custody.

Garfield County Recent Releases PDF

The sheriff's page is the official online recent-release starting point located in this research. It links to a PDF that combines Recent Arrests, Recent Releases, and the current in-custody list. The source does not label a separate 24-hour or 72-hour release page. That means the 24-hour release list and 72-hour page should be read as instructions for using the official recent-release block and fallback records, not as claims that Garfield County publishes two separate windows.

The Garfield sheriff current-inmates page shows the two-hour update language, bond instructions, and Colorado VINE link.

That page points users to the PDF, but the sheriff still says to call the jail for up-to-date information when current custody or a very recent release must be confirmed.

CDOC Search for Garfield Releases

The Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search is for state-prison and parole records, not ordinary county jail releases. It becomes the right tool when a Garfield County case resulted in a DOC sentence, when a person was transferred from the jail to prison, when a release was from Rifle Correctional Center, or when parole status is part of the question. A DOC number is the strongest search key, but the public form also supports name and gender fields.

A CDOC record may show state facility assignment, parole region, convictions, sentence terms, parole eligibility date, next parole hearing, estimated mandatory release date, or release status. Those fields are sentence-focused. They should not be blended with the sheriff PDF's local jail release date.

Garfield Court Release Records

Court records often explain why Garfield County jail custody ended. The jail is at 107 8th Street in Glenwood Springs, and the Garfield County Courthouse is next door at 109 8th Street. A person can leave the jail because the court entered a bond order, personal-recognizance release, dismissal, sentence with time served, probation order, warrant recall, or DOC mittimus. The jail record answers custody status; the court record answers the legal event.

The Colorado Judicial Branch Garfield County page lists the county court locations and record-search links.

Use the court location and docket filters carefully because Garfield County includes the Glenwood Springs courthouse and the Rifle associate court.

Garfield Release Logistics

Garfield County has a practical local release angle because the sheriff publishes bond access details. The current-inmates page says jail hours are 24/7 at the Bondsman Door. It also says bonds can be posted in person at 107 8th Street in Glenwood Springs or remotely by calling 970-945-1377 ext. 1055. That helps families understand the bond-out path, but it does not prove that every released person exits through that same door. Pickup details, timing, and current custody should be confirmed with the jail.

Getting home can be a real issue after release in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River corridor. Ride Glenwood Springs is a year-round free city transit service with daily 30-minute intervals and connections to RFTA regional service, Greyhound, and Amtrak. RFTA's Hogback route links Glenwood Springs with New Castle, Silt, and Rifle. The jail does not become a transit agency, but these public routes matter when a release happens in downtown Glenwood Springs and the person lives west of town.

Garfield County Post-Release Supervision

Release from custody can be followed by probation, parole, community corrections, or work release. Probation in Garfield County is a court-supervised sentence or condition through the Colorado Judicial Branch. Parole is post-prison supervision through CDOC and the Colorado State Board of Parole. Garfield County Criminal Justice Services adds a local layer in Rifle with community corrections, work release, and services connected to the Division of Parole.

Probation

A court sentence or condition supervised through local probation offices.

Parole

Supervision after state prison release, controlled by CDOC and the parole board.

Discharge

The end of custody or supervision obligations under the relevant sentence or order.

Time served

A release tied to credit for days already spent in custody.

The separate Garfield County parole and probation page covers supervision checks in more detail. For the home search path, the key point is simple: release from a cell does not always mean freedom from court or parole conditions.

Garfield VINE and Federal Releases

Colorado VINE is the alert and custody-status layer that Garfield Sheriff points to from the current-inmates and victim-services pages. It can be used to search custody status and register for telephone or email notification when status changes. It is best used before a pending release. After release, VINE may show a status for a time, but the durable proof is the jail record, court record, CDOC record, or federal record depending on the system.

Federal and immigration paths should be used only when the facts support them. The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, and BOP says a past release date with no facility location means the person is no longer in BOP custody. ICE ODLS locates people currently detained by ICE or in CBP custody for more than 48 hours. USMS custody can explain a jail transfer tied to a federal warrant, writ, or hearing.

Note: A Garfield County jail release to another agency should be described as a release from local custody until the next system confirms community release.

Garfield Released vs Custody Lookup

Many wrong searches start with the right source used at the wrong time. A live roster is strong while someone is in custody. It weakens once the person has been released. A court record may explain the reason, but it may not show the exact jail processing time. CDOC can confirm prison and parole status, but it does not replace the sheriff record for a county-only detainee.

Garfield County Release Facilities

Garfield County release research is local because the county has several different custody and record systems in or serving the county. The county jail in Glenwood Springs is the first stop for local bookings. Rifle Correctional Center is a CDOC prison, so its releases use state offender and parole records. Community corrections and work release in Rifle can involve court, Criminal Justice Services, probation, parole, or CDOC records. Courts, VINE, BOP, ICE, and USMS are not jail facilities, but each can be the controlling source for a release question.

• Garfield County Detention Facility / Garfield County Jail
• Garfield County Community Corrections / Work Release
• Garfield County Courthouse
• Garfield County Associate Court - Rifle
• Rifle Correctional Center
• Colorado VINE / VINELink
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
• ICE Online Detainee Locator System
• U.S. Marshals Service, District of Colorado