Releases from Colorado Department of Corrections
A person sentenced from Moffat County to Colorado state prison leaves the county jail as a transfer, then may later appear in CDOC's public offender search with parole, release, or discharge dates where applicable. That later CDOC event is not the same as being released from the Moffat County jail. The county jail record documents the local exit. CDOC documents the state-prison custody, parole status, release timing, and sentence discharge where public.
No state prison located in Moffat County was identified in the local source set. This page covers the statewide Colorado Department of Corrections system because Moffat County cases can still enter CDOC after sentencing.
How to Search CDOC Status
The CDOC Offender Search accepts DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. Use DOCNO when available because it reduces same-name confusion.
- Open the CDOC Offender Search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/.
- Search by DOCNO, or use last name, first name, and gender if the number is unknown.
- Compare identifiers before relying on a match, including age, physical descriptors, corrections number, mugshot if present, and conviction information.
- Read parole, release, and discharge dates by their label. A parole date, release date, and sentence discharge date do not mean the same thing.
- If no CDOC record appears, return to Moffat County jail records and court records. The person may never have entered state prison.
CDOC Records and Contact
The source set identifies the public CDOC Offender Search as the primary lookup route and Colorado.gov's Find an Inmate page as a state portal pointing users to the same corrections database. For Moffat County context, use the Moffat court sentence, mittimus, or jail transfer record to decide whether CDOC should be searched at all.
If the question is a county jail release, use Moffat County Sheriff's Office records. If the question is a state-prison release, parole status, discharge date, or prison photo, use CDOC and the related parole-board route. Keep those paths distinct.
About the State Prison System
CDOC is the statewide state-prison and parole custody system. The Colorado Virtual Library summary of CDOC Offender Search says results can include name, age, corrections number, mugshot, ethnicity, gender, height, weight, eye color, hair color, parole/release/discharge dates as applicable, and current convictions. Those fields are useful for people who were sentenced to Colorado prison or who remain under CDOC status.
| CDOC field | Release meaning |
|---|---|
| DOCNO | Corrections number used to identify the state-prison record |
| Parole date | State post-prison supervision timing where applicable |
| Release date | State custody release timing, depending on record status |
| Discharge date | Sentence-ending information where shown |
Release Dates and Parole Eligibility
Colorado public CDOC search should not be treated as a universal projected-release calculator. The research identifies Parole Eligibility Date, Mandatory Release Date, release or discharge dates, earned time, parole-board decisions, detainers, warrants, new cases, and amended court paperwork as timing factors. The Secretary of State rule for 8 CCR 1511-1 defines Parole Eligibility Date as the earliest possible parole release date calculated by CDOC time/release operations using sentence length, time served, good time credits, and statute.
C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 covers earned time, and C.R.S. 17-2-201 covers Colorado State Board of Parole authority. Eligibility is not a guarantee of physical release. Confirm a Moffat County prison case by reading the court sentence, searching CDOC, and checking the parole-board route if parole timing is involved.
County Jail Release vs CDOC Release
A common mistake is to treat disappearance from the Moffat County jail as proof of a CDOC release. The safer reading is narrower: the person left the county facility. The county record should say whether that exit was bond, court order, time served, sentence completion, or transfer. CDOC becomes the controlling search only after a state-prison sentence or state transfer exists.
If the court record shows probation instead of prison, the local verification path is Moffat County court records and Moffat County Probation, not CDOC prison custody. If the court record shows prison, CDOC can show the state corrections number, status, dates, photo where available, and current convictions summarized in the state-publication guidance.
Moffat County Sources to Reconcile
Before treating a CDOC profile as the right release record, check whether the person actually left the county jail for state custody. The Moffat County Sheriff's Office Detentions Division page is at https://crimewatch.net/us/co/moffat/sheriff/153578/content/detentions-division, and the local Records Release Form route is https://crimewatch.net/us/co/moffat/sheriff/153578/content/records-release-form.
Use the Moffat County court page at https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/moffat-county to look for the sentence or mittimus that explains a DOC transfer. The CDOC search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/ then answers the statewide prison and parole side of the record.
Official Source Snapshot
The screenshot below is from the Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search source used for this state-prison page.
Use CDOC for state-prison and parole records. Use the Moffat County jail and court paths for a county-only release.
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