Fremont Projected Release Basics
Projected release is not one statewide answer for everyone in Fremont County. The county has a local jail, many state prisons, and the FCC Florence federal complex. A person at Fremont County Detention Center may be waiting on bond, a court hearing, sentence credit, a hold, or transfer paperwork. A person at a Colorado Department of Corrections facility is under state time-calculation rules. A person at FCC Florence is under federal BOP rules.
That custody split controls the search. The sheriff can confirm current local custody, bond-related release, and booking or release records for the county jail. CDOC controls Colorado prison status, parole eligibility, earned time, and discharge or parole dates. BOP controls federal release-date display for federal prisoners. The court record can explain why a date exists or why it changed.
Scheduled vs actual: A projected date is a working date. The actual Fremont County release is the event documented after the person leaves custody or changes systems.
Fremont Jail Release Timing
For a Fremont County Detention Center detainee, there is usually no public CDOC-style projected release field. Local release timing can depend on cash bond, surety bond, personal-recognizance bond, time served, a court order, a dismissal, a new hold, a transfer to CDOC, or transport to another agency. That is why a live custody check is not the same thing as a release-date calculation.
The sheriff's bonding information gives the strongest local timing rule. It cites C.R.S. 16-4-102 and explains that bond hearings generally must be held within 48 hours of booking. It also states that the sheriff must release a defendant within six hours after personal-recognizance bond or cash-bond readiness conditions are met unless extraordinary circumstances exist. If required electronic monitoring must be fitted, the sheriff may hold the person up to 24 hours. Those rules describe bond-release timing, not a future date for every jail inmate.
The Fremont Sheriff bonding page is the source for that local bond-release detail.
Use the bonding page for local bond timing, then verify the specific person's status with Intake/Booking, the court docket, or a written sheriff records request.
Find Fremont Projected Release
A clean release-date lookup starts by identifying the source system. Do not apply CDOC parole statutes to a county jail bond case. Do not apply a county jail phone check to a state-prison sentence. The right order is practical and narrow.
- Identify whether the person is in the Fremont County Detention Center, a CDOC state prison, or a BOP federal facility.
- For a local jail case, check the sheriff's Inmate Locator route and call Intake/Booking at 719-276-5555 option 2 if status is unclear.
- Check Fremont Combined Court for bond, sentence, dismissal, mittimus, jail credit, or probation events.
- For a Colorado prison case, search CDOC by DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender.
- Read only the release or parole-date label shown on the public CDOC profile, since labels can vary by record.
- For FCC Florence, use BOP's locator and BOP records guidance rather than Colorado statutes.
- Confirm any important date with the agency that owns the record.
The CDOC search page is the main public route for state-prison dates. The CDOC Offender Search currently emphasizes DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. Search Tips say the DOC number is CDOC's primary identifier and that name searches can return records beginning with the typed letters.
The search screen is a starting point. CDOC's disclaimer says database information may sometimes be inaccurate and should be confirmed with CDOC when accuracy matters.
Colorado Prison Date Rules
Colorado prison dates are based on statutes, sentence type, offense category, sentence date, earned time, and parole-board action. C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 governs parole eligibility. For many felony and drug-felony sentences, parole eligibility can occur after service of 50 percent of the imposed sentence, less authorized earned time. Some listed serious offenses use 75 percent rules for specified offense and date categories. Colorado's post-2024 violent-crime changes add an 85 percent rule for certain violent offenses committed on or after January 1, 2025.
That language must be narrow. Not every Colorado prisoner serves the same percentage before release eligibility. C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 governs earned time and earned release time. Earned time may be deducted when the person demonstrates progress in statutory and CDOC categories, subject to limits based on offense, sentence, and date. The public search should be used as the public-facing date source rather than as an arithmetic worksheet.
| Rule source | What it affects |
|---|---|
| C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 | Parole eligibility for Colorado prison sentences, with offense and date-specific rules. |
| C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 | Earned time and earned release time deductions subject to statutory limits. |
| CDOC profile | Public source for the visible release, parole eligibility, or mandatory release label on a state record. |
| Parole Board action | May grant, deny, defer, rescind, or otherwise affect release after eligibility. |
Note: Parole eligibility is not the same as release from prison. The board and CDOC record must be checked separately.
Why Fremont Dates Change
A Fremont County projected release date can change because the facts feeding the date change. Local jail dates can move after a bond change, a new court order, a hold from another agency, sentence credit, or transport timing. CDOC dates can move after sentence amendment, earned-time award, disciplinary loss, parole-board action, rescission, detainer handling, or revocation. BOP dates can move because federal sentence reviews and Federal Time Credit calculations are separate federal processes.
| Change factor | Likely source to check | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Bond posted or PR bond set | Fremont Sheriff and Fremont Combined Court | May start the local six-hour release clock if statutory conditions are met. |
| Court order or mittimus | Fremont Combined Court | Can set sentence, jail credit, probation, dismissal, or release authority. |
| Earned time | CDOC | Can reduce a state-prison projected date within statutory limits. |
| Detainer or transfer | Holding agency and receiving agency | May mean release from one system but custody in another. |
| Parole action | CDOC and Colorado State Board of Parole | Eligibility does not guarantee release on that date. |
| Federal recalculation | BOP | Federal release dates are governed by federal records and federal credit rules. |
Confirm Fremont Release Dates
After a projected date is found, confirm it with the agency that owns the record. For a Fremont County Detention Center case, use Intake/Booking for immediate status and the Sheriff's Records Division for a written booking or release record. For a state-prison case, use CDOC's public profile and CDOC confirmation guidance. For a federal FCC Florence case, use BOP's locator and BOP records process.
Colorado VINE can help when the person is still in a supported custody record and a release or transfer alert is useful. A VINE alert is a signal to verify the agency record, not the final release document. The practical alert setup is covered on the Fremont County VINELink Inmate Search page.
- Projected release date
- A calculated or expected date that may change before the person leaves custody.
- Actual release date
- The date the person left that custody source or changed custody systems.
- Parole eligibility
- The date or point when parole may be considered, not a guaranteed release.
- Detainer
- A request or hold from another agency that can affect where the person goes next.
FCC Florence Release Dates
Federal release dates in Fremont County belong to BOP, not CDOC or the sheriff. BOP operates FCI Florence, USP Florence High, and USP Florence ADMAX in the local federal complex. The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and may show a release date or current facility location.
BOP's records guidance gives a useful release rule: if a listed release date is in the past and no facility location is shown, the person was released from BOP custody on that listed date. BOP also cautions that release dates may change because of sentence review and Federal Time Credit changes. A federal release can still leave a person under supervised release or another legal status, so the federal court docket may be needed for full context.
For a Fremont County search, that means FCC Florence dates should stay in the federal lane. A BOP date can explain release from federal custody, but it does not answer whether a separate Colorado case, county hold, parole issue, or court order exists. Use the locator result as the federal custody marker, then check the court or receiving system if the person appears to move into another process.
Note: Colorado earned-time statutes do not compute a BOP release date for a person held at FCC Florence.