Kiowa County Release Date Types
A projected date is a planned or calculated date. An actual release date is the date the custody status changes. In Kiowa County, that distinction is especially important because local custody is regional. Kiowa County does not operate a jail, so a local detainee may be held at Bent County Jail. The jail feed may show a release date for a local booking, while the court record controls bond, sentence, and probation entries.
Scheduled vs actual: A projected release date can change. Treat the actual release date, court disposition, and CDOC status as separate fields until they match.
Pretrial release is different from sentence release. A person awaiting court does not have a prison-style projected date. Release may depend on a personal-recognizance bond, cash bond, surety bond, court condition, electronic-monitoring requirement, detainer, or later order. A sentenced state prisoner, by contrast, may have CDOC date fields such as parole eligibility, projected or estimated release, mandatory release, parole date, or discharge date.
Find Kiowa County Release Date
Start with the system that holds the person. The Bent County inmate-info feed is the practical online jail-data source for many Kiowa detainees held at Bent County Jail. It includes search controls for name, date range, arresting agency, current custody, gender, city, and state. It can show name, booking number, date booked, arrest location, arresting agency, status, release date, charges, and a booking-photo thumbnail when available.
- Check whether the person is a local jail detainee, a sentenced county-jail inmate, a CDOC prisoner, or a parole matter.
- For a local Kiowa hold, search the Bent County feed and inspect arresting agency for KIOWA COUNTY SO or KCSO.
- Call Bent County Jail if the feed is stale, blank, or internally inconsistent. The jail phone fallback in the research is 719-456-1363.
- Use the Colorado docket search and Kiowa County Combined Court for bond, sentence, court dates, and disposition.
- For a prison sentence, search the CDOC offender search by DOC number, name, and gender.
- Register through VINELink Release Check when a custody-change alert is needed.
The CDOC offender search source is shown in the manifest capture from the official CDOC offender search.
Use that state search for prison and parole release dates, not for routine short local jail releases from Bent County Jail.
Kiowa County Jail Date Computation
County-jail release calculations are local sentence calculations. If a Kiowa County case results in a short jail sentence and the person is housed at Bent County Jail, the holding jail's records and the court sentence need to be reconciled. Jail credit, court amendments, mittimus corrections, and good-time deductions can all affect the date. A local jail release date is not the same as a CDOC parole eligibility date.
Colorado county-jail deductions are governed by C.R.S. 17-26-109. Research from Colorado General Assembly materials describes two days in a thirty-day period for a person sentenced to and imprisoned in county jail who faithfully performs assigned duties. It also describes up to three days in a thirty-day period at the sheriff's discretion for successful completion of designated programs or educational activities, outstanding progress, or unusual and extraordinary actions. The statute also addresses forfeiture for violations.
| Local date factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Jail credit | Time already served can reduce the remaining local jail term. |
| County-jail deductions | Credits under C.R.S. 17-26-109 may change a sentenced jail release date. |
| Court correction | An amended sentence or jail-credit order can move the date. |
| Discipline or forfeiture | Violations can affect deductions allowed by law. |
Kiowa Bond Release Timing
Bond release is not a projected sentence date. It is a release process after bond conditions are met. The Kiowa Sheriff's HB 21-1280 bonding page says bond fees, booking fees, and other debts do not have to be paid to secure a money-bond release. Only the bond amount is required to secure release on a money bond.
The same local bonding page says a sheriff must release a defendant within six hours after personal-recognizance or cash-bond conditions are met and the defendant has returned to jail, or after the defendant or surety has notified the jail that bond is prepared to be posted, unless extraordinary circumstances exist. It also notes a possible hold up to 24 hours when required electronic monitoring must be fitted. That timing rule is about bond processing, not CDOC earned time.
Note: A person can be released from jail on bond while the criminal case and future court dates remain active.
CDOC Projected Release Dates
CDOC projected or tentative dates apply to state-prison sentences. The CDOC offender search exposes DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender fields. It also links to parole-board resources. A Kiowa County case reaches this path if the person was sentenced to state prison, transferred from jail to CDOC, or later appears in the local jail feed on a DOC Parole matter.
Do not treat all CDOC dates as the same thing. Colorado records may refer to parole eligibility, mandatory release, estimated or projected release, parole date, and discharge date. Parole eligibility is the earliest possible parole-release date as calculated from sentence length, time served, good-time or earned-time credits earned or lost, and governing statute. It is not a promise that release will happen that day.
| CDOC concept | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Parole Eligibility Date | The earliest date parole may be considered under the calculated sentence rules. |
| Projected or estimated date | A calculated planning date that can change before actual release. |
| Parole date | A date tied to release on parole supervision when the board and plan allow it. |
| Discharge date | The end of the prison or supervision obligation shown by the state record. |
Colorado Earned-Time Rules
Colorado prison earned time is governed in part by C.R.S. 17-22.5-405. The law includes earned-time deductions for eligible inmates and contains restrictions and categories. Eligibility can depend on the sentence type, offense date, offense class, program participation, disciplinary history, and statutory exclusions. That is why the page should not reduce Colorado release timing to a single percentage.
Truth-in-sentencing also needs caution. Colorado has offense-specific parole-eligibility rules. Some violent or specified offenses have higher service requirements, and some statutory materials use thresholds for certain categories and date ranges. A national rule of thumb can be wrong for a Colorado sentence. Read the CDOC date fields, court sentence, and governing statute for the particular case.
The earned-time statute was captured successfully from the Justia C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 source.
The statute image supports the state-prison date calculation. It does not replace the jail-credit and county-jail deduction rules for a local sentence.
Why Kiowa Release Dates Change
A release date can move after the first search. Some changes are routine data corrections. Others are legal events. A person can also leave one custody system and enter another, which makes a local release date look final even though the person is not free from all custody.
| Change | Record to check |
|---|---|
| Jail credit is added or corrected | Kiowa County Combined Court and the holding jail. |
| Good time or earned time is awarded or lost | Bent County Jail for local sentence deductions, CDOC for prison earned time. |
| Court amends sentence or mittimus | Colorado Judicial Branch docket and court records. |
| Parole board grants, denies, defers, or rescinds parole | CDOC offender search and parole-board page. |
| Detainer, warrant, or transfer hold appears | Holding jail, court record, CDOC, ICE, BOP, or the agency named in the hold. |
| Data update lags | Direct phone confirmation with the holding facility or supervising agency. |
Confirm Kiowa Release Date
Use a hierarchy when a date matters. For a local jail hold, check the Bent County feed, then call Bent County Jail if the status and release date do not line up. For bond, read the court docket and the Kiowa bonding rules. For a court sentence, confirm the sentence and jail credit with Kiowa County Combined Court. For prison and parole dates, use CDOC and the parole-board page. For alerts, use Colorado VINE.
A certified or complete record may require a records request. Kiowa Sheriff's services page says local reports are reviewed before release, may be redacted or withheld under listed limits, and require a 72-hour wait after the request form is turned in. CDOC, the court, and the holding jail keep their own records. Send the request to the agency that controls the field you need.