Federal Transfer Records
A person arrested locally on a federal warrant or moved from Yuma County custody may pass through USMS transport, a local or contract holding facility, federal court, and eventually BOP if sentenced. The county jail record may simply show transfer or hold. That is a release from the Yuma County Jail, but it is not enough to establish community release or final federal release.
The U.S. Marshals path is often a chain rather than one public database. Yuma County may document the local custody exit. A federal court docket may document detention, bond, transport, sentencing, supervised release, or revocation events. A holding facility may document short-term custody. BOP may document the person only after federal prison designation or sentencing. Because those systems answer different questions, a USMS page should avoid turning every local transfer into a completed release.
The Yuma County Sheriff's Office is the local starting point for county custody events. The sheriff office is listed at 310 Ash Street, Suite G, Wray, CO 80758, with office phone 970-332-4805. The county jail phone identified in the research is 970-345-2244. Those contacts can help confirm whether the local record says bond, time served, court order, transfer, CDOC commitment, ICE transfer, medical hold, or another release type.
Trace a USMS Transfer
- Start with the Yuma County Jail or sheriff record to confirm the local release or transfer date.
- Check the release type and destination before treating the county exit as a community release.
- Check the federal court docket for detention, bond, transport, sentencing, supervised-release, or release orders.
- Use BOP after sentencing or designation, because BOP has the public federal inmate locator for federal prisoners from 1982 to present.
- If the record names a local holding facility, contact that facility or use its official records process.
- Use ICE ODLS only when the next custody authority is immigration custody, not merely because the person left county jail.
- Use CDOC only when the person was committed to Colorado state prison or state parole, not when the path is federal pretrial custody.
This order matters because there is no public USMS locator comparable to the BOP inmate locator. The user has to build the record path from official pieces. A county record can identify the date and authority of the local exit. The court record can explain why the federal government had custody or whether release was ordered. BOP can confirm federal prison custody or release after BOP receives the person. A holding facility can fill the gap between local custody and BOP.
No Public USMS Locator
Research did not identify a public USMS inmate search comparable to BOP. For a Yuma County user, the practical record chain is local jail release record, federal case docket, BOP locator if the person enters BOP custody, the local or contract holding facility, and any victim-notification or court-notice process tied to the federal case. The absence of a USMS search result is not meaningful because there is no public search page to check in the same way as BOP or ICE ODLS.
This makes the wording of the county record especially important. If the record says "released to USMS," "federal hold," or "transfer," the person may still be detained while physically absent from the Yuma County Jail. If the record says bond, time served, court order, or dismissal, the local release may have a different legal meaning. The only reliable approach is to preserve the exact release type and then verify the next agency.
The Yuma County court path can also matter even when the later case is federal. Court records outlive short jail stays and can show bond events, warrants, release orders, dismissals, probation, sentencing, mittimus, and later hearings. For local Colorado cases, the Yuma County Courthouse is listed at 310 Ash Street, Suite L, Wray, CO 80758, phone 970-592-6120, with email yumacountycourts@judicial.state.co.us. Federal court records are separate, but the local docket can still explain how a county custody event ended.
BOP After USMS Custody
BOP becomes the public federal prison source after the person enters BOP custody. BOP says its locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present. BOP also explains that most searches show a Release Date. A future Release Date is projected. A past Release Date with no facility means the release occurred and the person is no longer in BOP custody. A Location value of Released or Not in BOP Custody likewise means no longer in BOP custody.
For a USMS transfer, BOP may not help immediately. A pretrial federal detainee can be transported by USMS or held under a contract arrangement before any BOP sentence exists. A person may appear in federal court records before any BOP locator record is useful. Once BOP has custody, read the Release Date and Location fields together. BOP also warns that someone no longer in BOP custody may still be on supervised release, parole-style supervision for older cases, or in another justice system.
The First Step Act recalculation note also belongs in the federal path. BOP says sentences are being reviewed and recalculated for pending Federal Time Credit changes and that release dates may not be up to date. A future BOP date after a USMS transfer should therefore be described as a projected calculation, not as a guaranteed actual release. Actual release is stronger after the date is in the past with no facility or after BOP shows Released or Not in BOP Custody.
County Release vs Federal Transfer
Yuma County, Colorado does not appear in the research as publishing a public online current roster, 24-hour release list, or 72-hour release list. That means a federal transfer may never appear in a public county feed. The local record may have to be confirmed through the sheriff or jail, the Yuma County court docket, Colorado VINE if data is available, or a written records request.
A county-jail release record may show full name, booking number, booking date and time, release date and time, arresting agency, charges at booking, court case number, bond amount, release authority, release type, destination or transfer, and sometimes property or financial-account notes. For a USMS path, the most important fields are release date and time, release authority, release type, and destination. Those fields tell the reader whether the county released the person to the community or handed custody to another agency.
The distinction is not just technical. A person can be gone from the Yuma County Jail because a judge ordered release, because bond posted, because a local sentence ended, because probation began, because CDOC took custody, because ICE took custody, because USMS transported the person, or because BOP later received the person. Each outcome points to a different follow-up source. A federal transfer should be described as a transfer unless a later federal record confirms release from federal custody.
Request the Local Piece
When the public search path does not answer the county portion, use Yuma County's records procedure. The county CORA page says requests must be written to the proper custodian and specific as to records and dates. It also says a custodian is not required to create a record that does not exist. For jail records, criminal justice records may be evaluated under CCJRA even when the general county page is branded CORA.
For a USMS transfer question, a focused request should identify the person, date of birth if known, booking date or date range, case number if known, and the specific existing records requested: booking sheet, release date and time, release type, release authority, charges listed at booking, bond or release order if held by the sheriff, and transfer destination if recorded. The Yuma County Administrator contact for the public-records request form is 310 Ash Street, Suite A, Wray, CO 80758, phone 970-332-5796 ext. 221.
The county's published fee and timing facts should set expectations. Standard-page copies are 25 cents. Research or retrieval may be charged at actual cost not exceeding $41.37 per hour. The custodian may provide an estimate and require a deposit. Normal production is three working days after deposit, with possible extension generally not more than seven working days when extenuating circumstances exist. Those rules help the reader ask for the county record without assuming an online federal transfer list exists.
Do Not Collapse Systems
USMS, BOP, CDOC, ICE, federal court, Colorado court, and Yuma County Jail all answer different custody questions. A USMS transport status can coexist with a county release event and a federal court case. BOP can later show federal prison release, while ICE ODLS may show current or recent immigration custody, and CDOC can show state prison or parole status. None of those systems is a substitute for the local sheriff record when the question is what happened at the Yuma County Jail.
The safest page workflow is to preserve the exact agency named in the record and verify the next custody location before converting any transfer into a release. "Released from Yuma County Jail to USMS" means the county no longer held the person. It does not prove release from federal custody. "Released from BOP" means BOP no longer held the person. It does not explain the original county booking unless the records are connected through court, booking, or transfer details. Keeping those statements separate is the core of an accurate USMS custody page.