Search Yuma County Released Inmates

Yuma County Released Inmates

A released Yuma County inmate is a person who has left the custody system that held them. For a local jail booking, that system is the Yuma County Sheriff's Office and the county jail in Wray. For a state prison sentence, the system is the Colorado Department of Corrections offender search. For a federal sentence, the system may be the Bureau of Prisons. The record source changes when custody changes. That is why a person can be gone from the jail but still appear in court, CDOC, BOP, ICE, probation, or VINE.

Yuma County, Colorado does not publish an official online current jail roster, 24-hour release list, or 72-hour release list in the source material reviewed for this build. That absence is important. It means a local release is often confirmed by direct sheriff or jail contact, a court docket event, a VINE custody notice, or a written CORA/CCJRA request. It also means Arizona Yuma County inmate portals should not be used for a Colorado release. Colorado pages use Wray addresses, 970 phone numbers, Yuma County Colorado domains, and Colorado Judicial Branch sources.

Those figures are local history, not a current release count. They show the county has had jail activity and public reporting, while also showing that Yuma County does not offer the kind of live release dashboard found in some larger counties.

Yuma County Release Types

The reason for release determines where to look next. A bond release can happen while a case continues. A time-served release can end the jail portion but leave costs, probation, or later hearings. A transfer can move the person from county custody to CDOC, another county, federal custody, a hospital hold, or immigration custody. The word released only answers one custody question unless the destination and legal authority are known.

Bond-out timing is a real Yuma County angle because the Colorado Judicial Branch Yuma County page links a weekend bond hearing schedule. A person booked late Friday can depend on court availability, jail processing, and release authority rather than a simple weekday records counter. Bond release is not a dismissal. It is a custody change tied to a court case that should still be checked in the docket.

Yuma County Release Records

A Yuma County release record is not a single public webpage. For the county jail, it is the sheriff or jail custody event tied to the booking. For the court, it is the docket or Register of Action entry that explains why the person left custody. For CDOC, it is the offender record showing prison status, parole, discharge, and date fields. For BOP, it is the federal inmate locator record with a release-date field and custody location. Each record answers a different part of the release question.

The court record often outlives the jail record online. The Colorado Judicial Branch Yuma County page links docket search, records request, weekend bond hearing information, probation contact, payments, transcripts, and local filing information. The Yuma County Courthouse page gives the local clerk contact. For deeper case history, CoCourts says its court-record searches provide a Register of Action.

Get Yuma Release Records

Yuma County publishes a public-records process through its CORA request page. The county says requests must be written to the official custodian, must be specific about the records and dates sought, and may require a deposit after an estimate. Criminal justice records may be evaluated under Colorado's Criminal Justice Records Act as well as the county's CORA procedure. The practical request should name the person, give a date of birth if known, list the booking date or date range, include a case number if known, and ask for the exact existing booking and release fields needed.

1. Identify the right custodian. Use the sheriff or jail for jail booking and release records, the court clerk for case records, CDOC for state prison records, BOP for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody status.
2. Write a specific request. Ask for the booking or release record for a named person and date range, including booking number, release date and time, release authority, release type, charges listed at booking, and transfer destination if maintained.
3. Follow the county fee process. Yuma County lists 25 cents for standard-page copies and a research or retrieval cap of $41.37 per hour, with estimates and deposits when required.
4. Track the response window. The county states normal production is three working days after the deposit process starts, with an extension generally not more than seven working days when extenuating circumstances apply.

Yuma County says custodians are not required to create records that do not exist. That matters because no public online 24-hour or 72-hour release feed was found. A person can request an existing booking or release record, but the request should not be phrased as if the county must build a new rolling public release list.

Colorado Release Record Laws

Colorado release-record access is shaped by CORA, CCJRA, court-access rules, and sealing law. The Colorado Attorney General identifies CORA at sections 24-72-200.1 to 205, C.R.S., and CCJRA at sections 24-72-301 to 309, C.R.S. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation CCJRA page states that criminal justice agency requests are evaluated under CCJRA. For Yuma County jail records, that means the custodian may review the request for statutory limits, privacy concerns, juvenile restrictions, sealed records, victim information, and public-interest factors.

Sealing can change what appears in public searches. The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition guide notes that, when a record is sealed, the defendant and criminal justice agencies may properly reply that public criminal records do not exist with respect to that person. A missing Yuma County result can therefore mean no record, spelling mismatch, a different jurisdiction, a transfer, old data, or lawful restriction. A release page should not treat silence in one database as proof of release or proof of no release.

Find Released Yuma County Inmates

The best Yuma County released inmate search starts by sorting the custody path. A short county-jail stay is different from a CDOC sentence, parole, probation, federal custody, or immigration custody. Since Yuma County does not publish a Colorado online release feed, the search path needs more than one source. A person who is not visible in one system may still be in another custody system, under supervision, or visible only through the court file.

1. Start with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office or jail if the person was booked locally in Wray.
2. Check the Yuma County court docket for bond, release order, dismissal, sentence, probation, warrant status, mittimus, or next-hearing events.
3. Search CDOC if the person was sentenced to Colorado prison, transferred to CDOC, paroled, or discharged from a state sentence.
4. Use Colorado VINE for current or recent custody status and future release alerts when the person and facility are in the VINE feed.
5. Use BOP, federal court, or ICE ODLS only when the case or custody status is federal or immigration-related.
6. Request the official booking or release record if the answer must be documented.

For same-day release questions, the 24-hour release list page explains the no-feed fallback. For future state-prison timing, the projected release date page explains the difference between a projected date and an actual release.

Yuma County CDOC Release Lookup

The CDOC offender search is the correct statewide path for a person who entered Colorado prison custody from a Yuma County case. It is not the correct path for every short county jail booking. CDOC search matters when the release is a state-prison release, parole status, discharge status, or projected state sentence date. The search tips say DOCNO is the primary CDOC identifier and that name records may use the arresting or prosecuted name rather than a current legal name.

The manifest screenshot below comes from the CDOC search source used for Yuma County release work. Open the CDOC offender search before using the image as a field reference, because public interfaces can change.

For a CDOC release, read the status and date fields as state-prison data. A person can be released from prison but still be on parole, discharged from sentence, returned on a violation, or held elsewhere.

Yuma County Recent Releases

No official Yuma County, Colorado current-roster, 24-hour release feed, 72-hour release feed, or recent-release page was found. That is the central local fact. Many web searches surface Arizona jail portals and Arizona detention-center release instructions, but those do not apply to Wray, Colorado. The official Colorado starting points are the sheriff site, the county jail page, the Yuma County court pages, VINE, CDOC where applicable, and written records requests.

The Colorado Judicial Branch docket search is useful because Yuma County release events are often court-driven. The docket search requires at least one filter in addition to date. Use a party name, case number, county, or court location when available. Then look for bond posted, release order, warrant canceled, dismissal, sentence, probation, revocation, mittimus, or next-hearing entries.

Yuma County's wrong-state problem deserves a second check before any action. If a page shows Arizona addresses, an Arizona portal, or non-970 contact numbers, it is not the Colorado Yuma County release path.

Yuma County Parole and Probation

Post-release supervision splits into two systems. Probation is local court supervision, and Yuma County lists a probation office at 310 Ash Street, Suite H in Wray. The court page also gives a probation department phone and an officer email pattern. Parole belongs to state-prison release and CDOC or the Colorado State Board of Parole. A person released from the Yuma County Jail to probation may never have a CDOC record. A person released from state prison to parole generally should be checked through CDOC and the parole-board interface.

Probation

A court-supervised sentence or condition that can follow a Yuma County case without a prison sentence.

Parole

Supervision after a Colorado prison release, managed through CDOC and parole authority.

Discharge

The end of sentence or supervision jurisdiction, which is different from the day a person left jail.

Absconder

A supervision term for a person who has stopped reporting or cannot be located by the supervising agency.

Local post-release support is documented through county department listings rather than a single reentry office. Yuma County lists local probation, useful public service, Centennial Mental Health Center offices, Northeastern Association of Local Governments, and Veterans Office contacts. Those contacts help route public-service questions after release, while the legal confirmation still comes from the court, probation, CDOC, or parole source. The parole and probation page separates those paths in more detail.

Yuma Release Notifications

Colorado VINE is the custody-status and notification route for participating custody feeds. Colorado county guidance lists the toll-free VINE number as 888-263-8463 and describes phone or email notifications. The VINELink app source adds in-app notices, text where available, phone, email, and TTY. VINE is useful for a future release alert or current/recent custody check, but it is not a permanent jail archive and does not replace an official release record.

Federal and immigration paths are separate. The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present, and BOP explains that a past Release Date with no facility means the person is no longer in BOP custody. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for current or recent immigration custody, and USA.gov explains searches by A-number or by name, country of birth, and birth date. Neither system is a Yuma County jail release list.

Yuma Released vs In Custody

One search source rarely answers every Yuma County release question. The table below keeps the systems separate so a person released from one custody path is not confused with a person still held somewhere else.

Note: A person missing from a public search can reflect release, transfer, spelling mismatch, sealed records, an old event, or a system that does not publish the data online.

Yuma County Court Release Clues

Yuma County's court, sheriff, probation, and county offices are clustered at the Ash Street complex in Wray, but they answer different questions. The sheriff and jail answer custody and booking questions. The court answers case-status, bond, disposition, sentence, and order questions. Probation answers supervision process questions for probation cases. The county administrator source is the contact for the public-records request form under the county CORA page.

The court path is often the fastest clue when no release list exists. A docket can show that a bond hearing happened, a bond was posted, a warrant was canceled, a sentence was imposed, probation began, a mittimus sent the person to CDOC, or a revocation changed custody. The docket does not always use the word released. Read the surrounding case events and then confirm the actual custody event with the jail, court clerk, or CDOC if the case moved to prison.

Yuma County Release Systems

Yuma County's release map is small in local jail terms but broad in record paths. The local jail handles county custody. The courthouse explains why custody changed. Probation handles court supervision. CDOC, BOP, ICE, CBI, and USMS records matter only when the person entered those systems. County minutes also show a local operations angle: a 2022 snippet said inmate contracting had been suggested due to staffing challenges, which is a reminder that transfer can be a real release-record outcome and should not be rewritten as community release without proof.

• Yuma County Jail / County Jail, Wray
• Yuma County Courthouse / 13th Judicial District
• Yuma County Probation Office
• Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search
• Colorado State Board of Parole / CDOC Par. Board
• Colorado VINE / VINELink
• Colorado Bureau of Investigation Sex Offender Registry
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
• ICE Online Detainee Locator System
• U.S. Marshals Service custody / federal court path