Bent County Jail Release Search

Releases from Bent County Jail

Bent County Jail is the best-documented local holding path for Kiowa County detainees because the Kiowa County Sheriff's Office states that Kiowa County does not operate a jail. A release from this jail can mean bond, time served, sentence completion, court order, transfer to CDOC, transfer to another county, federal transfer, or ICE custody. Do not treat a release date as proof that the person returned to the community until the release type is clear.

The Bent County inmate-info feed is the main online route. It includes search fields for name, date range, arresting agency, current-custody status, gender, arrested city, and state. For Kiowa cases, use arresting agency options such as KIOWA COUNTY SO or KCSO, then read the booking number, date booked, arrest location, status, release date, and charges.

Confirming a Bent Jail Release

Use the direct inmate-info feed first: Bent County Arrested Inmate Info. If the embedded jail page reports technical difficulty, try the direct mobile-friendly feed before assuming there is no record. Search with current custody set to "No" for released people, or use a date range when checking a recent release window. Then reconcile the result with Kiowa County Combined Court for bond, disposition, sentence, probation, or transfer events.

For urgent confirmation, call the jail or dispatch at 719-456-1363. The feed warns that inmate information changes quickly and may not reflect current information, so phone verification matters when a person is expected to be released, when the release date is blank, or when the status conflicts with what the court says.

Bent County Jail Records and Contact

For a records request, identify the person by name, date of birth if known, booking number if available, booking date, arresting agency, and the Kiowa County case or court date if known. Ask for the booking/release fields controlled by the jail, then use court records for orders, dispositions, or certified documents.

About Bent County Jail

The jail site says the facility opened in 2000, houses up to 94 inmates, and holds male and female inmates from minimum-security population through maximum-segregation status. It is a local/regional jail path, not a state prison. That distinction is important because the nearby Bent County Correctional Facility is a CDOC contract prison and uses CDOC release records instead of the county jail feed.

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Transfers Are Not Final Releases

If the jail record says the person was released to CDOC, another county, federal custody, or immigration custody, continue in the next system. Use CDOC offender search for state-prison custody, BOP for federal prison sentences, and ICE ODLS when an immigration transfer is indicated.

Fields to Read in the Jail Feed

The useful Bent County feed fields are more detailed than a simple in-custody answer. Read the booking number, date booked, arrest location, arresting agency, current status, release date, and charge list. If the person was arrested by Kiowa County Sheriff's Office, the arresting-agency field is the local key because it separates Kiowa matters from Bent County arrests and from other agencies listed in the same regional feed. The current-custody filter can be set to "No" for a released-person search, but it should be paired with a date range and a name search so the result is not confused with an older booking for the same person.

Booking-photo thumbnails may appear in the feed, but the page should be treated as an operational custody source first. A thumbnail does not prove conviction, and a missing thumbnail does not prove there is no booking. The feed warning that inmate information changes quickly is the reason to call the jail when the field combination does not make sense.

Requesting a Jail Release Record

A narrow request to the holding jail should identify the person, the approximate booking date, the Kiowa arresting agency, and the record fields needed: booking number, booking date and time, release date and time, release type if public, bond or court-order reference if public, and transfer destination if public. If a booking photograph is needed, ask for the publicly releasable booking photograph tied to that booking number or booking date. The request should stay focused on custody verification and record correction, because some information may be restricted under Colorado criminal-justice records rules, sealing orders, juvenile protections, victim protections, active investigations, or mistaken-identity issues.

If the question is why the person was released, use the court record as well. Jail staff can confirm operational custody and release fields, but the legal reason may be a bond order, dismissal, sentence, mittimus, warrant recall, probation order, or transfer order in Kiowa County Combined Court.

Where to Verify After Release

After a Bent County Jail release date appears, follow the destination. Bond, personal-recognizance release, time served, and dismissal usually point back to the court docket for the next hearing or disposition. Probation points to Kiowa County Probation and the court order. A CDOC transfer points to the statewide offender search, because the person has moved from local jail custody into the state prison or parole system. A federal transfer points to federal court, U.S. Marshals context, and BOP only if a federal prison sentence exists. An ICE transfer should be checked through ICE ODLS, and the wording should remain precise: release from county custody is not always release to the community.

Limits of the Bent Route

Bent County Jail is the best-documented route for this build, but the research notes that small-county custody routing can vary. A Kiowa County Press arrest-report example described Kiowa arrestees transported to Bent County Jail and others to Prowers County Jail in an older period. That local news item is routing context only, not a current official release feed. The current page should therefore tell readers to start with Bent when the record points there, but to follow the receiving agency named by the sheriff, court, warrant, bond paperwork, or dispatch staff when a different holding jail is identified.

Colorado Record Boundaries

Colorado criminal-justice records rules matter because release information can be public in one form and restricted in another. The Colorado Attorney General source explains that official action includes arrest, disposition, pretrial or posttrial release from custody, and decisions to grant, order, or terminate probation or parole. That supports asking for specific release fields. It does not make every narrative report, investigative note, juvenile detail, victim information, or sealed record automatically public. For this jail page, the practical distinction is between a public booking or release field and the broader case file behind it.

When a Bent record appears incomplete, use the narrowest source. Ask the jail for jail fields, ask Kiowa Sheriff for the incident report, ask the court for orders, and ask CDOC, BOP, or ICE only when the person moved into those systems.

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.