Bent County Correctional Release

Bent County Correctional Releases

Bent County Correctional Facility is listed by CoreCivic as a medium-security facility with the Colorado Department of Corrections as its customer base. That point controls the release search. A person leaving this facility is leaving a state-prison sentence or state-prison placement, not a local sheriff jail stay. The release may be parole, mandatory release, discharge, transfer, death, a court-ordered movement, or another CDOC status change.

The public lookup should start with CDOC offender search. CDOC records can show the state sentence status, current facility assignment, parole or release dates when applicable, discharge dates when applicable, convictions, and identifying fields. If the record shows parole, the Colorado State Board of Parole and Division of Adult Parole path becomes relevant. If the person is transferred rather than released to the community, the next record follows the receiving CDOC facility or lawful agency.

Confirm a CDOC Release

The CDOC search page accepts DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. CDOC search tips say the DOC number is the department's primary identifier, names return beginning-letter matches, two last names should not be hyphenated, and the record may use the arresting or prosecuted name. Those details matter when a family name, alias, or spelling change makes a released person hard to locate.

1. Open the official CDOC offender search.
2. Search by DOCNO if known because it is the strongest identifier.
3. If the DOC number is unknown, search by last name and first name, trying prosecuted-name spellings when needed.
4. Open the matching record and compare age, DOC number, photo, descriptors, convictions, facility assignment, and date fields.
5. Look for parole, release, discharge, current facility, or supervision indicators.
6. Confirm disputed details with CDOC, the facility, the case manager, or the supervising parole office.

The Bent County released inmates hub covers the broader county-jail and federal fallback paths. Use that route when it is unclear whether the person was in the sheriff jail, CDOC custody, BOP custody, or ICE custody.

Bent Correctional Contact

CoreCivic lists the facility address and phone separately from the sheriff jail. That distinction is important because both facilities sit in Las Animas and both can appear in searches for Bent County releases. A caller asking about a CDOC state prisoner should not start with the county jail records desk unless the person was separately booked into the local jail.

For a formal CDOC release or sentence-computation issue, the public offender search is only the starting point. CDOC's disclaimer says the database can contain inaccurate information and directs users to confirm information with CDOC. That confirmation step matters when a release date affects travel, family pickup, court scheduling, or supervision reporting.

About Bent Correctional

CoreCivic's facility page identifies Bent County Correctional Facility as medium security, owned since 1996, and serving the Colorado Department of Corrections. The source also lists programming categories such as education, addiction treatment, faith, vocational trades, and life skills. Those are prison-program details. They do not make the facility a local jail, and they do not shift release records to the sheriff.

The facility's public identity creates one of Bent County's main search traps. The words "Bent County" in the facility name do not mean the Bent County Sheriff's Office holds the prison release record. The sheriff jail address is 11100 County Road GG.5 and the jail phone is 719-456-1363. The prison address is 11560 Road FF.75 and the prison phone is 719-456-2610. Different address, different agency, different release record.

The CoreCivic facility page is shown below as the source confirming the CDOC customer base and facility identity.

Use the facility page for contact and facility identity. Use CDOC search and CDOC confirmation for release, parole, discharge, and state-sentence status.

Bent County Parole Records

A person released from Bent County Correctional Facility may leave to parole, mandatory release, or sentence discharge. Parole is state supervision after prison, and it is not the same as probation from Bent Combined Court. The CDOC Parole Board calendar shows scheduled hearing months, warns that hearing schedules can change, and says public attendance requires advance arrangements through the case manager or jail depending on hearing type.

Colorado VINE can help with custody-change notices when CDOC or the facility feeds the record. VINE should not be treated as a full historical release-record archive. If VINE shows a custody change, confirm the state-prison release through CDOC when a written date, discharge, or supervision status is needed.

Parole

State supervision after a prison sentence.

Mandatory release

A state sentence release path tied to sentence law and CDOC computation.

Discharge

The end of sentence control or supervision, depending on the record.

Transfer

A move to another facility or agency, not always a release to the community.

CDOC Release Date Fields

Colorado sources did not document one universal public field named "Projected Release Date" for every CDOC record. Public sources use date concepts such as parole eligibility, mandatory release, earned time, earned release time, release, discharge, and sentence discharge. The careful approach is to read the labels on the actual CDOC result and avoid forcing a county-jail term onto a state-prison sentence record.

Release dates can change because of presentence confinement credit, earned time, loss or withholding of credits, new convictions, consecutive sentences, parole decisions, rescission, revocation, and administrative corrections. C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 addresses earned time and earned release time, while C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 addresses parole eligibility. Colorado does not have one simple percentage rule for all prisoners.