Yuma County Jail Records

Releases from Yuma County Jail

A jail release in Yuma County can mean bond, court order, time served, sentence completion, probation, dismissal, transfer, medical or hospital hold, CDOC commitment, federal custody, or an immigration detainer transfer. The important distinction is that "released from Yuma County Jail" does not always mean community release. It may mean the sheriff no longer holds the person because another court, corrections agency, or federal authority took over.

The sheriff's site identifies the office at 310 Ash Street, Suite G, Wray, CO 80758, with the county jail listed as a sheriff service. No public Colorado Yuma County jail roster or rolling release feed was found. Do not use Yuma County, Arizona detention pages for this Colorado facility.

Confirm a Jail Release

1. Call the Yuma County Jail at 970-345-2244 or the sheriff's office at 970-332-4805 with the person's full name, date of birth if known, and booking date range.
2. Check the Yuma County court docket for bond, release order, dismissal, sentence, probation, mittimus, warrant, or transfer events.
3. Search Colorado VINE when a custody-status notice or future release alert may exist.
4. Use the Yuma County released inmates hub to separate county jail, CDOC, BOP, ICE, and court paths before assuming the person is free of all custody.

Jail Records and Contact

For an official booking or release record, request the existing record from the proper custodian in writing. Yuma County's CORA procedure requires specificity as to records and dates, and criminal justice records may be evaluated under CCJRA. Ask for a booking sheet, release date and time, release authority, release type, charges listed at booking, bond status, case number, and transfer destination if those fields exist and are releasable.

About the Wray Jail

The Yuma County Jail is the local county-jail path for arrests, short local custody, bond holds, local sentences, and transfers from the Wray area. Court, sheriff, probation, and county offices are clustered at the Ash Street complex but serve different record functions. The jail answers custody questions, the court explains case events, and probation handles court supervision.

County minutes from 2022 include a local operations note that inmate contracting had been suggested by Sheriff Todd Combs and Jail Sergeant Joe Wells because of staffing challenges. That should not be treated as a current policy, but it supports a practical warning: a "transfer" entry can be a real release-record outcome, and the destination matters.

No Public Release Feed

Yuma County, Colorado does not appear to publish a public 24-hour release list, 72-hour release list, current jail roster, or recent-release archive for the Wray jail. That absence changes how this facility page should be used. A person who bonded out, completed ordered jail time, or was moved from the jail may no longer be visible through any public jail page, because no official local page was found that keeps those events online for browsing.

The practical replacement is a confirmation chain. For same-day questions, contact the jail or sheriff. For the legal reason behind the custody change, check the Yuma County case docket through Colorado Judicial Branch sources. For future release notification, use Colorado VINE when the person and agency are present in the system. For an official document, submit a focused written request to the proper custodian under the county process, understanding that sheriff records may be treated as criminal justice records under CCJRA.

This no-feed fact is also where the wrong-state caveat matters. Search results for "Yuma County jail release" often surface Yuma County, Arizona detention pages and Arizona request procedures. They do not apply to this facility. The Colorado signals are Wray, Colorado, 970 phone numbers, the Yuma County Sheriff's Office at 310 Ash Street, Suite G, and Colorado Judicial Branch court links for Yuma County in the 13th Judicial District.

Release or Transfer

A release record should be read as a custody event, not as a conclusion about every legal obligation. Bond release means the person left physical jail custody while the case can continue. Time served means the jail portion of a sentence or order was satisfied, but court costs, protection orders, probation, or later hearings may still remain. Probation release means the person left jail under a court-supervision path. Dismissal is a court disposition and should be confirmed in the court record, not inferred only because the person is gone from jail.

Transfer is different. A person can leave Yuma County Jail and remain in custody if the destination is CDOC, another county, a hospital or medical hold, U.S. Marshals custody, BOP after federal sentencing, or ICE custody following an immigration detainer. If a record or phone confirmation says "transfer," ask for the receiving authority or destination when it is releasable. Do not treat a transfer as community release unless the source actually says that.

For a state prison sentence, the county jail stops being the main release system. CDOC offender search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/ is the statewide path for Colorado prison custody, parole, discharge, and many post-release statuses. CDOC uses DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender fields, and its search tips say DOCNO is the primary identifier. A Yuma County detainee released locally on bond may never have a CDOC record.

Court and Probation Links

The court record often explains what the jail cannot show online. Yuma County Courthouse is at 310 Ash Street, Suite L, Wray, CO 80758. The courthouse phone is 970-592-6120, fax 970-332-4119, and email yumacountycourts@judicial.state.co.us. Court hours listed by the county are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The court page links a docket search, records request resources, and a weekend bond hearing schedule, which matters when a late-week booking turns into a bond-out question.

Look in the case for bond posted, personal recognizance release, release order, warrant canceled, dismissal, deferred judgment, sentencing, probation, mittimus to CDOC, revocation, or sentence-completion events. CoCourts may provide a Register of Action for deeper case history, while the free docket is more limited. A jail phone call can confirm custody status; the court record explains the legal event.

Probation has its own local office at 310 Ash Street, Suite H, Wray, CO 80758. The county lists the probation office Tuesday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., phone 970-332-3273, fax 970-332-3273. The Judicial Branch page gives a probation department phone of 970-592-6159 and says probationers should contact their probation officer directly or allow 24 hours for response. Probation is court supervision. Parole is tied to CDOC and state prison release.

CORA and CCJRA Requests

Yuma County's public-records procedure says inspection requests must be in writing to the official custodian. Requests to the wrong person are not accepted, and an email request does not automatically start the response clock unless the custodian accepts that method and confirms receipt. For a jail release record, make the request specific: name the person, include date of birth if known, give the booking date or date range, add the case number if known, and ask for existing records such as the booking sheet, release date and time, release authority, release type, listed charges, bond status, case number, and transfer destination if maintained and releasable.

The county says standard-page copies cost 25 cents. Research and retrieval may be charged at actual cost, capped at $41.37 per hour. The custodian may provide a cost estimate and require a deposit before retrieval begins. Normal production is three working days beginning on the first business day after the deposit has been paid, with an extension for extenuating circumstances that generally should not exceed seven working days after notice within the initial period.

Criminal justice records may be evaluated under CCJRA even when the county's general procedure is branded CORA. That means the custodian may apply statutory limits, redactions, sealed-record rules, victim-information protections, juvenile limits, or other criminal-justice-record standards. The county also is not required to create a record that does not exist, so a requester cannot force creation of a 72-hour release feed. The better request is for existing booking or release fields for a specific person and date range.

Photos and Notifications

No public Yuma County, Colorado booking-photo gallery or recent-release mugshot feed was found. A booking photograph, if maintained by the proper custodian and releasable, is a records-request issue. Colorado law at C.R.S. 24-72-305.5 requires a requester statement for booking photographs and restricts obtaining booking photographs for a publication or website where removal requires payment or other pecuniary gain. This page treats photos as official-record items, not as browsing content.

Colorado VINE is a separate notification path at https://vinelink.vineapps.com/state/CO/ENGLISH, with a toll-free number of 888-263-8463. VINE can support custody-status checks and release alerts by phone or email, and the app may support in-app, text where available, phone, email, and TTY. It is not a permanent Yuma County release archive. Confirm final release with the holding agency or the court if an official record is needed.