Delta County Release Dates Differ
A projected date is not the same thing in every system. A pretrial detainee in the Delta County Detention Facility may have no set release date because release depends on bond, court order, dismissal, plea, hold clearance, or transfer. A sentenced county-jail inmate may have a local sentence calculation. A CDOC inmate may have parole eligibility, mandatory release, earned time, and discharge fields. A federal inmate may have a BOP projected release date.
Scheduled vs actual release. A projected date can move, and an actual release should be verified with the agency holding the person.
| Custody Type | Where to Check | Date Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Delta County jail pretrial | Jail and court docket | Often no fixed date until bond or court action. |
| Delta County jail sentence | Jail records and court sentence | Local sentence date with possible jail deductions. |
| CDOC state prison | CDOC offender search and records | Parole eligibility, mandatory release, earned time, or discharge date. |
| Federal sentence | BOP inmate locator | BOP projected or past release date. |
Find Delta County Release Date
The search path should start where custody sits today. Delta County has a county jail and also a CDOC state prison in the county, so the phrase "Delta County release date" can point to two different systems.
- For a county-jail booking, call the Delta County Detention Facility at 970-874-2021.
- Check the Colorado Judicial Branch docket for bond, sentence, probation, warrant, or disposition entries.
- For a CDOC sentence, use the CDOC offender search by DOCNO or name.
- Review CDOC fields for parole eligibility, estimated or mandatory release, next parole hearing, sentence discharge, and current status when shown.
- Use VINELink Release Check for custody-change notification, especially before a release happens.
- Request formal records from the jail, court, CDOC, or BOP if the date affects a time-sensitive issue.
CDOC's public disclaimer warns that the database may contain inaccurate information and tells users to contact CDOC to confirm. Treat the public profile as a lookup aid, not a certified time-computation record.
Delta County Jail Good Time
County jail date rules are different from CDOC prison rules. Colorado county-jail deductions are governed by C.R.S. section 17-26-109. The research captures the core rule: sentenced county-jail inmates may receive a seven-day deduction for each 30 days when they perform assigned duties and follow jail rules. The statute also provides additional deductions for certain work, program, trusty, and approval criteria, plus limited deductions for unusual or extraordinary action.
The statute requires each county jail to keep records of deductions and changes. That matters for Delta County release-date research because the jail record, not CDOC, controls a local county sentence calculation. If the person is pretrial, the better question may be bond or court action, not good time.
For a short local sentence, the most useful records are the mittimus or sentencing entry from court, the jail booking record, and any jail deduction record that applies. Do not import CDOC parole eligibility rules into a county-jail sentence. The Delta County Detention Facility handles local custody, while CDOC time-computation rules apply only when the person is in the state prison system.
Delta County CDOC Release Dates
For Delta Correctional Center or any other CDOC facility, use state-prison concepts. C.R.S. section 17-22.5-403 provides the general parole eligibility rule for many felony sentences: parole eligibility after 50 percent of the sentence, less authorized earned time, with possible extension for misconduct. Certain violent offenses have different percentages and offense-date rules.
C.R.S. section 17-22.5-405 governs CDOC earned time. The research notes that earned time generally may not exceed 10 days per month, based on certified progress, with a 12-day-per-month category for some lower-level felony and drug-felony sentences when conditions are met. Proposition 128 changed parole eligibility for specified crimes of violence committed on or after January 1, 2025, with official materials describing an 85 percent requirement for those categories.
The CDOC public offender search should be read for the actual profile fields shown. Public profile labels can vary by status and sentence type, so date concepts should be confirmed against the profile and CDOC records.
Why Delta County Dates Move
A release date changes when the underlying sentence or custody condition changes. The most common reasons are not the same for jail, prison, and federal custody.
| Change | Likely System | What to Verify |
|---|---|---|
| Court credit corrected | Jail or prison | Court sentence and custody credit record. |
| Good time earned or forfeited | County jail | Jail deduction record under county rules. |
| Earned time granted or withdrawn | CDOC | CDOC time-computation and offender profile. |
| Misconduct | Jail or CDOC | Disciplinary impact on date or parole eligibility. |
| Detainer or warrant | Any system | Receiving agency and court record. |
| Parole plan delay or rescission | CDOC parole | Parole-board and CDOC status. |
Delta County Court and VINE
The court record explains why a jail release might occur, but it may not show the exact release timestamp. The jail record gives custody-exit information when releasable. Colorado VINE can send custody-change alerts and may show a status signal, but it is not a certified court disposition or a complete release archive.
Use the Delta County Combined Court record for bond, sentence, probation, warrant, and disposition context. Use VINE for alerts while the person is still in a participating system. Use the jail or CDOC when an exact release date must be confirmed.
Note: A future release date is best read as a current estimate until the holding agency confirms actual release.
Delta County Bond Release Timing
A projected release date is not always a sentence-calculation issue. In a pretrial Delta County case, release may depend on bond being set, posted, accepted, and processed. Delta County's detention page says bond is set by a judge or court-ordered warrant and directs users to call the jail for a specific person's bond type. It also lists the identifiers needed for credit-card bond payment.
The county bond-rights page adds a concrete timing rule: a sheriff generally must release a defendant within six hours after the relevant personal-recognizance or cash-bond conditions are met, unless extraordinary circumstances exist. A limited electronic-monitoring exception can allow up to 24 hours when fitting is required. Those rules help explain why a person may have a likely release window without having a sentenced-inmate release date.
Federal Release Dates Near Delta County
If the Delta County jail record points to federal custody, use BOP and federal sources rather than CDOC. BOP's inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 forward and supports number or name searches. BOP explains that a future release date is projected based on federal calculations, while a past release date with no facility location means the person was released from BOP custody on that date.
Federal release does not resolve every local question. A person may still have court obligations, supervision, or another custody issue outside the BOP record. For a Delta County jail transfer, match the local jail release record to the federal source before describing the result.
Delta County Date Records
A release-date request should name the exact record being sought. For county jail, ask for the booking and release record, the release date and time, the release type, bond details, transfer notation, and any case number tied to the booking. Delta County Sheriff's Records Management is the local custodian for Sheriff's Office jail records and applies the fee schedule described in the county records page.
For CDOC, public offender search is the first screen, but a formal time-computation answer may require CDOC confirmation. For court, Delta County Combined Court explains sentence, bond, probation, and warrant status. For VINE, the result is an alert or status signal. The safest date answer comes from the system that actually calculated or performed the release.
When comparing dates, keep a short source log. Write down whether the date came from the jail, the court docket, CDOC, VINE, BOP, or another agency. A jail release date can be earlier than a probation start date. A parole eligibility date can be earlier than actual parole release. A BOP projected date can change after recalculation. Recording the source prevents one date from being mistaken for another.
Delta County records also separate custody from legal outcome. A person can leave the Detention Facility on bond while the case remains open. A person can finish a county sentence while restitution, review hearings, or probation terms continue. A person can leave Delta County custody because another agency assumed custody. The date label should say which event it marks.
That label should be kept in any notes or records request: bond release, jail sentence release, CDOC parole eligibility, CDOC discharge, BOP release, or transfer date.
Delta County Date Examples
Consider a person held pretrial in the Delta County Detention Facility. The useful date may be the bond-posting date, the time the jail confirmed funds or conditions, the physical release time, or the next court date. None of those is a CDOC projected release date. The court and jail records must be read together because one explains the order and the other explains custody exit.
For a person sentenced to CDOC, the date vocabulary changes. The CDOC profile may refer to parole eligibility, mandatory release, next parole hearing, estimated sentence discharge, or current facility assignment. A parole-board hearing can affect timing, but the hearing date is not the release date. A discharge date is different from parole eligibility. A VINE alert may report a custody change without showing the full calculation behind it.
For a federal transfer, the BOP locator may show a projected future release date or a past release date. BOP says a past release date with no facility location means the person is no longer in BOP custody, but that does not explain every local court consequence. Delta County release-date work is therefore a matching task: match the date to the system, then match the system to the record source.
When dates conflict, give more weight to the agency with custody or sentencing control over that specific event and ask that agency to confirm.