Garfield County Jail Releases

Releases from Garfield County Detention Facility

Garfield County Detention Facility, often called the Garfield County Jail, is the county jail at 107 8th Street in Glenwood Springs. It is operated by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office and houses adult male and female inmates for the sheriff and for law-enforcement agencies throughout the county. That matters because a person booked at this jail may have been arrested by the sheriff, a municipal police department, Colorado State Patrol, a court, or another agency with a warrant or hold.

A release from this facility means the local jail custody event ended. It does not always mean the person returned to the community. A person can leave the Garfield County Jail because bond was posted, the court ordered release, a sentence was completed, time served was credited, a warrant was recalled, a hold was lifted, a parole or probation matter was resolved, or another agency took custody. If the person moved to the Colorado Department of Corrections, ICE, U.S. Marshals Service, another county, community corrections, probation, or parole, the next record is in that system rather than in the jail roster.

How to Confirm a Jail Release

The fastest public route is the Garfield County Sheriff's current-inmates page and its PDF report. The sheriff says the report updates automatically every two hours and is for reference. The PDF has a top block labeled "Recent Releases," followed by current custody information. Read the top block first. A name in "Recent Arrests" is not a release, and a name in the longer current list means the person still appears in the current report.

1. Open the sheriff current-inmates page and then the linked PDF report.
2. Check the PDF timestamp before relying on the result.
3. Look for the person in the "Recent Releases" block, not only in the current custody list.
4. Record the name, gender, and release date if shown.
5. Call the jail at (970) 945-0453 for up-to-date custody information when timing matters.
6. If the person is outside the recent block, request the booking sheet and releasable release information from the Sheriff's Records Division.
7. Use the Garfield County court docket to learn whether a bond order, sentence, dismissal, warrant recall, probation order, or mittimus explains the release.

The public recent-release block is useful but narrow. It does not show the release time, release type, bond amount, booking number, charges, destination, or booking photo. The current custody part of the PDF has richer fields, including booking date, days in custody, charge description, booking number, and a bond amount or release-date column, but that part is not a historical release archive. For a fuller release record, use the records request path described below and compare it with the court docket. The home page provides the broader Garfield County released inmate search route when the custody system is unclear.

Garfield County Jail Records and Contact

For formal jail records, use the Garfield County Sheriff's Office Records Division rather than treating the public PDF as the complete file. The records page says report requests require a signed request form and a photocopy of identification, and payment must be received before records are released. The request form includes checkboxes for Booking Sheet and Booking photo, which are the most direct official options when identity or release details need confirmation.

A focused request should name the person, date of birth if known, approximate booking and release dates, GCSO report number if known, and booking number if captured from the PDF. Ask for the booking sheet, release date, releasable release reason or type, and any bond or court-order reference that can be released. The records page says the office typically responds within three business days; if releasable records require more time, the department sets a date and time. For CORA-defined public-record extensions, the research notes no more than seven additional business days.

About Garfield County Detention Facility

The sheriff's jail information identifies the facility as a county detention facility that opened in December 2001. It has capacity for up to 193 inmates and uses multiple housing units, including direct-supervision pods. It serves the sheriff and every law-enforcement agency within Garfield County, so a jail release may involve local police charges, sheriff charges, court commitments, state patrol arrests, or holds from outside agencies.

Bond Release and Court Orders

Garfield County gives unusually concrete bond instructions. The sheriff current-inmates page says bonds can be posted in person around the clock at the Sheriff's Office at 107 8th Street, and remote or online bond posting starts by calling 970-945-1377 ext. 1055. A bond release is a release from jail custody under court conditions. It is not the final result of the criminal case.

After a bond release, the court docket is the better source for next hearing dates, bond conditions, any later warrant, and final disposition. The Garfield County Courthouse is next door at 109 8th Street, and local court records can explain why a person left jail when the PDF only gives a name and date. If a release happened after a sentence or time-served order, compare the court mittimus and presentence-confinement credit with the jail release record.

Release Logistics in Glenwood Springs

The official research identifies the jail and courthouse cluster in downtown Glenwood Springs. The sheriff source notes public jail access around the clock at the Bondsman Door, but it does not say that every released person exits through that door. Anyone arranging pickup should confirm logistics with the jail because processing times and exit points are not published as a public release schedule.

Public transit can matter after release. Ride Glenwood Springs is described as a year-round free transit service with regular daily service and connections to RFTA regional transit, Greyhound, and Amtrak. RFTA's Hogback route connects Glenwood Springs, New Castle, Silt, and Rifle. Those options do not replace jail confirmation, but they are relevant local context for people planning transportation after a confirmed release.

VINE, Transfers, and False Release Signals

Garfield Sheriff links Colorado VINE from the current-inmates and victim-services pages. VINE can help monitor custody-status changes and release notifications while a person is in a participating facility. It should be used as an alert layer, not as the permanent jail archive. Once a person is outside the recent-release block, the durable release evidence is the booking sheet, jail record, court record, or the next custody system's record.

A transfer can look like a release if the only question is whether the person left Garfield County Jail. If the release was to CDOC, search CDOC. If it was to ICE, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator and immigration court status tools. If it was to federal custody, use USMS and eventually BOP if a federal sentence begins. Write the conclusion carefully: "released from Garfield County Jail custody" is not always the same as released from every form of custody.