Bent County Correctional Facility Releases

Prison Releases from BCCF

A person released from Bent County Correctional Facility is leaving a state-prison custody track, not a county jail hold. For a Kiowa County case, this applies only if the court sentenced the person to DOC or the person was otherwise in CDOC custody. Use CDOC offender search for status, location, parole, release, or discharge fields.

How to Confirm a BCCF Release

Search CDOC by DOC number or name and gender. If parole is involved, check the Colorado parole hearing page and parole-board resources. If the question starts with a Kiowa County arrest, confirm the court sentence with Kiowa County Combined Court. Do not use the Bent County Jail roster to confirm releases from this prison.

BCCF Records and Contact

CoreCivic gives the facility type as medium-security and identifies CDOC as the customer base. Formal release fields should be requested through the appropriate CDOC/public-records channel when the online result is not enough.

Do Not Confuse the Two Bent Facilities

Bent County Jail and Bent County Correctional Facility are both in the Las Animas area, but they answer different release questions. Bent County Jail is the local/regional jail path for many Kiowa detainees. Bent County Correctional Facility is a CDOC prison path. Source screenshot from the successful facility manifest capture:

BCCF Release Fields to Use

Bent County Correctional Facility should be researched through the state-prison record set. The important identifiers are DOC number, name, facility or supervision status, parole eligibility or projected date fields where displayed, release or discharge date where displayed, and parole-board information if the person is approaching or has passed a parole event. CoreCivic's page identifies the facility address, phone, fax, medium-security type, and CDOC customer base, but the release-status source is CDOC rather than the private facility page.

If the person came from a Kiowa County case, the court record should show the DOC sentence or mittimus. Without a DOC sentence or transfer, a BCCF search may be unrelated to the Kiowa local arrest.

Jail and Prison Records Split

The Las Animas location creates an easy mistake. Bent County Jail is at 11100 County Road GG.5 and is the local/regional jail path for Kiowa detainees. Bent County Correctional Facility is at 11560 Road FF.75 and is a CDOC contract state-prison facility. A county jail release can be bond, time served, dismissal, county sentence completion, or transfer. A BCCF release is a prison release, parole release, discharge, or state-custody transfer. The two facilities are geographically close but legally and operationally separate.

Records Requests for BCCF Releases

Start online with CDOC offender search. If a formal record is needed, request public CDOC custody or release records using DOC number, full name, and date of birth if needed for identification. Ask for the specific public date or status field at issue rather than a broad prison file. For the sentencing document, request the mittimus or sentencing order from the court. For any earlier Kiowa local arrest or jail stay, use Kiowa Sheriff and the holding jail. CoreCivic facility contact information is useful for facility routing, but CDOC remains the records authority for state-custody status.

Where to Verify After BCCF

After a BCCF release, check whether the person is on parole, discharged, transferred, or subject to another hold. Use CDOC offender search for current state status, the parole-board page for hearings and outcomes, VINE for notifications where available, and court records for the sentence that produced the prison custody. If the person is released to ICE or federal custody, continue with the correct federal or immigration source rather than treating the CDOC release as the final community release.

Colorado Record Boundaries

Bent County Correctional Facility is a prison facility in the CDOC record chain, so the public record boundary is different from the county jail. Colorado official-action concepts include correctional custody decisions and parole decisions, but the online facility page is not the full record source. CDOC offender search is the starting point for status and date fields. The court holds the sentencing order and mittimus. The parole-board page holds parole-hearing context. The jail feed only applies to the earlier or separate local custody stage.

When a BCCF release appears in CDOC, verify whether the person is paroled, discharged, transferred, or subject to another hold. If the person was a Kiowa County defendant, use the court record to confirm the DOC sentence before treating the BCCF record as part of the same case.

Kiowa Release Decision Tree

Use a decision tree instead of assuming one database answers every release question. If the person was recently arrested on a Kiowa County matter, begin with the Bent County inmate-info feed and use the arresting-agency filter for KIOWA COUNTY SO or KCSO when available. Read the booking number, date booked, arrest location, status, release date, charges, and current-custody setting. If the feed is unavailable, inconsistent, or urgent, call Bent County Jail or Bent/Kiowa Dispatch at the jail contact number and document the answer given.

If the question is why the release happened, move to Kiowa County Combined Court. The court can explain bond, recognizance release, dismissal, sentence, probation, jail credit, mittimus to DOC, warrant action, and sealing. If the court record shows probation, use Kiowa County Probation and the court order. If the court or jail record shows DOC, DOC Parole, prison sentence, or transfer to state custody, use CDOC offender search and parole-board resources. If the facts point to federal custody, use BOP only for the federal prison track and remember that U.S. Marshals custody can come before BOP. If the facts point to immigration custody, use ICE ODLS and keep county release separate from community release.

When online sources do not match, request records from the agency that controls the disputed field. Ask Bent County Jail for jail booking and release fields, Kiowa Sheriff for local incident or arrest records, the court for orders and dispositions, CDOC for prison or parole fields, BOP for federal prison records, and ICE for immigration custody routing. Keep every request narrow, factual, and tied to custody verification or correction so the custodian can identify the public record being requested.