Colorado State Penitentiary Records

Releases from Colorado State Penitentiary

Colorado State Penitentiary is a CDOC state prison in Fremont County's East Canon complex. It is a state prison, not a Fremont County jail unit or a sheriff recent-release feed. A release from Colorado State Penitentiary is a Colorado Department of Corrections release, not a Fremont County jail release. That distinction controls every search step. The person may be paroled, discharged, transferred to another CDOC facility, returned to custody after a parole action, or moved under a separate hold. None of those state-prison outcomes should be treated as a sheriff 24-hour or 72-hour jail release list.

Fremont County's correctional-capital material is the local history angle for this page. The county says six CDOC facilities operate in Fremont County and incarcerate about 5,100 prisoners. It identifies Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility on the west edge of Canon City and the East Canon complex that includes Four Mile Correctional Center, Arrowhead Correctional Center, Skyline Correctional Center, Fremont Correctional Facility, Centennial Correctional Facility, and Colorado State Penitentiary. The same source says Skyline has recently closed. That density explains why a search for Fremont County released inmates often returns prison-related results even when the searcher expected the local jail.

For Colorado State Penitentiary, the release record follows the state-prison path. The public starting point is CDOC Offender Search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/. CDOC records, parole-board calendar or profile links, and the sentencing court record supply the fuller context. A Fremont County sheriff record is relevant only if there was a separate local booking, a county hold, transport through the detention center, or a local criminal case that produced the state sentence.

How to Confirm a CDOC Release

The correct route for Colorado State Penitentiary is CDOC first. The CDOC search page currently emphasizes DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. CDOC search tips say the DOC number is the department's primary identifying number, up to six numeric characters. The tips also say name searches return names that begin with the typed letters, and they warn that the offender's name may be the arresting or prosecuted name rather than a later legal name. That makes DOCNO the best input when available, followed by name variants and partial names.

1. Open CDOC Offender Search and try the DOCNO first if you have it.
2. If you do not have the DOCNO, search last name and first name variants, including non-hyphenated versions.
3. Read the facility, custody status, and any visible release, parole eligibility, mandatory release, or parole-board fields exactly as shown.
4. Use the parole-board calendar or offender-profile parole links when the issue is parole eligibility, hearing timing, or board action.
5. Check the sentencing court record when you need the sentence, mittimus, amended judgment, jail credit, or disposition that explains the CDOC commitment.
6. Contact CDOC or use the appropriate CDOC records process when the date will affect travel, family planning, legal deadlines, or supervision reporting.

CDOC's disclaimer should be read plainly: the department expects the public information to be accurate, but the database can contain inaccurate information and users should contact CDOC to confirm it. That warning is especially important for release dates. Projected, tentative, parole-eligibility, mandatory-release, or actual release fields can change because of sentence amendments, credits, earned time, disciplinary decisions, detainers, parole-board decisions, rescission, or revocation. The Projected Release page explains those state-prison date limits in more detail.

Colorado State Penitentiary Records and Contact

For a formal prison release, parole, or discharge record, start with CDOC rather than the Sheriff's Records Division. The Sheriff can document a Fremont County jail booking or local hold, but routine discharge from Colorado State Penitentiary is a CDOC record. If the state sentence originated in Fremont Combined Court, the court file can explain the sentence and public case events. It does not replace CDOC's custody status or time calculation.

When requesting records, keep the request precise and purpose-neutral. Useful identifiers include the person's full name, DOC number, date of birth if known, facility, approximate release or transfer date, court case number, and the specific document needed. Frame the request as a release, parole, discharge, or court-record inquiry tied to the official source.

About Colorado State Penitentiary

Colorado State Penitentiary is part of the state correctional layer in Fremont County. The county's correctional concentration can make online search results look local even when the underlying record is statewide. For a person released from this facility, the key public record is the CDOC offender profile and any connected parole or discharge information. A person may still have Fremont County court history, but the release from custody is administered by the state prison system.

Parole and probation should also be kept separate. Parole generally follows a CDOC prison sentence and is administered through CDOC's adult parole structure and the Colorado State Board of Parole. Probation is a court sentence or condition through the Colorado Judicial Branch. Fremont County Probation is local to the 11th Judicial District at 136 Justice Center Road #104 in Canon City, but probation is not proof that a person was released from Colorado State Penitentiary. Use court and probation sources for probation, and use CDOC/parole sources for post-prison supervision.

Fremont County Prison Context

The local history matters because Fremont County is not a one-facility jail county. The county detention center, CDOC prisons, and federal FCC Florence institutions all sit within the same public-search geography. A released-inmates search that begins with only a name may therefore mix sheriff bookings, CDOC prison profiles, parole-board material, and BOP locator results. Sorting by facility type is the fastest way to avoid a wrong conclusion.

For Colorado State Penitentiary, ask one threshold question before searching: was the person in CDOC custody, or was the person only booked into the Fremont County Detention Center? If the answer is CDOC, use the state profile and parole route. If the answer is the jail, use VINE, Intake/Booking, Sheriff Records, and court bond or disposition records. If the answer is federal, use BOP and PACER. The facility name, DOC number, case number, and date of custody are the practical clues that decide the path.

What This Page Cannot Prove

A CDOC search result can point to custody status and release-related dates, but it is not a full court file and it is not a full supervision file. A parole eligibility date is not the same as a guaranteed release date. A facility change can mean transfer rather than release. A missing county jail result does not prove that a state prisoner was discharged. When the answer matters, confirm with CDOC, the parole process, or the court that created the sentence.