Releases from Rifle Correctional Center
Rifle Correctional Center is a Colorado Department of Corrections facility near Rifle in rural Garfield County. CDOC describes it as a Level I minimum security facility on a 75-acre site in western Colorado, originally opened in the 1960s as a satellite labor camp. Because it is a state prison, a person released from Rifle Correctional Center is not a Garfield County Jail recent release even though the facility sits within the county.
The release route for a state prisoner can include parole, community placement, mandatory release, discharge, or another CDOC custody or supervision status. A person may be physically outside the prison while still under Adult Parole or another state supervision status. The sheriff current-inmates PDF in Garfield County does not verify that state prison release unless the person also had a separate booking, writ, hold, or court event at the county jail.
How to Confirm a Rifle Prison Release
Start with CDOC Offender Search. The research identifies the CDOC search fields as DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. A DOC number is the cleanest search key because names can be duplicated, misspelled, hyphenated, or changed. If you do not have the DOC number, search by name and compare every available identifier before relying on a match.
- Open CDOC Offender Search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/.
- Search by DOCNO when available, or by last name, first name, and gender.
- Open the matching offender detail and review status, current facility or parole region, sentence fields, and release-related dates.
- Check whether the record points to parole, discharge, mandatory release, a future parole hearing, or continued custody.
- Use the CDOC Parole Board calendar when the question is eligibility or hearing timing rather than completed release.
- Use the sentencing court case to confirm the mittimus, sentence, presentence confinement credit, and any later court action.
A CDOC release date is a state sentence record. It is not the same as the Garfield jail PDF's "Release Date" column for a current jail inmate. For a Garfield County case that resulted in a DOC sentence, the local court record and mittimus explain how the person entered state custody; CDOC then controls the prison release calculation and supervision status.
Rifle Correctional Center Records and Contact
Facility contact is useful for routing, but the public release lookup should still begin with statewide CDOC tools. The research gives the Rifle Correctional Center switchboard as 970-625-7578 and the mailing address as 200 County Road 219, Rifle, CO 81650. For release records, use CDOC Offender Search and the appropriate CDOC record channel. For the Garfield County court case that imposed a sentence, use the Colorado Judicial Branch Garfield County court records path.
Rifle Correctional Center
200 County Road 219
Rifle, CO 81650
Switchboard: 970-625-7578
Operator: Colorado Department of Corrections
Primary release systems
CDOC Offender Search
CDOC Parole Board schedule
Colorado State Board of Parole / CDOC Adult Parole
Sentencing court record when the case began in Garfield County
If a record needs correction or deeper confirmation, request it from the agency that maintains it. Garfield Sheriff does not maintain CDOC time-computation records, and CBI does not keep every agency's jail or prison file. CDOC is the state custody source; the court is the sentencing source; the county jail is only relevant if the person had a separate Garfield County Jail custody event.
About Rifle Correctional Center
Rifle Correctional Center gives Garfield County a local search complication. Someone may ask for "Garfield County released inmates" and mean a person released from a state prison near Rifle, not a county detainee released from Glenwood Springs. The right answer depends on custody type. A county detainee uses sheriff records. A state prisoner uses CDOC records. A person moved temporarily from CDOC to the county jail on a writ may have both a county event and a state sentence record.
| Question | Correct source |
|---|---|
| Was the person released from Rifle Correctional Center? | CDOC Offender Search and CDOC release/supervision records |
| Was the person paroled after prison? | CDOC Offender Search, parole-board calendar, and Adult Parole context |
| Why did the person receive a DOC sentence? | The sentencing court docket, mittimus, and Garfield County case record if local |
| Was there a separate county jail booking? | Garfield County Jail records and sheriff current-inmates PDF |
Parole Dates Are Not Releases
CDOC records can include sentence and supervision fields such as parole eligibility date, next parole hearing, estimated mandatory release date, projected release date, status, current facility assignment, or parole region. Exact labels can change, so rely on the current CDOC screen when reviewing a record. A parole eligibility date means the person can be considered. It does not mean release has been granted, and a scheduled hearing is not the same as a completed release.
The State Board of Parole can grant, deny, defer, continue, rescind, or revoke parole depending on the hearing type and facts. The CDOC Parole Board calendar page warns that hearings are subject to change and that modifications made by DOC are available the following business day. Public attendance requires advance arrangements. For application or rescission hearings, CDOC directs inquiries through the offender's case manager; for revocation hearings, the jail where the person is located may matter.
State Sentence Records and Garfield Courts
When a Garfield County case becomes a DOC sentence, the court record remains important. Colorado presentence confinement credit under C.R.S. 18-1.3-405 is found by the sentencing court and included in the mittimus. That credit can affect the CDOC calculation. CDOC calculations can also be affected by offense date, sentence type, earned time, parole eligibility rules, mandatory parole, disciplinary forfeitures, detainers, and later court orders.
Colorado's Title 17 rules differ by offense date and offense type. The research notes that listed violent offenses committed on or after January 1, 2025 can require service of 85 percent before parole eligibility, while older listed categories and other offenses can have different rules. Do not reduce a Rifle Correctional Center release question to a single percentage. Compare the conviction offense, offense date, sentence, mittimus, CDOC record, and parole-board action.
When the County Jail Still Matters
The Garfield County Jail can still appear in a Rifle Correctional Center release trail, but only for a specific local event. A state inmate may be transported to Garfield County Jail for a court writ, local hold, revocation matter, or another proceeding. In that case, the county jail record can show a temporary booking and release from local custody, while CDOC remains the controlling sentence record.
If the person disappears from the county jail PDF after a transfer to CDOC, that is not a public release from custody. Search CDOC by name or DOC number. If the person later leaves Rifle Correctional Center, CDOC and parole records are the next records to check. This distinction is central in Garfield County because both the county jail and a CDOC prison are located inside the same county.