San Juan County Projected Release

Estimated Dates vs Actual Release

Readers often use "projected release date" as a general phrase, but Colorado's public CDOC language is more specific. A CDOC record may show an estimated parole eligibility date, a next parole hearing date, an estimated mandatory release date, and an estimated sentence discharge date. Parole eligibility is not the same as release. Mandatory release and discharge dates can also differ because a person may leave prison to mandatory parole before the sentence is fully discharged.

How to Find a Projected Release

Use CDOC only when the person has a Colorado prison case, parole case, or CDOC sentence-discharge record. Do not apply CDOC prison fields to a short San Juan County Jail hold, a bond release, or a case dismissed before state-prison sentencing.

1. Open the CDOC Offender Search at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/.
2. Search by DOCNO when available. It is more precise than a name search.
3. If DOCNO is unknown, use last name, first name, and gender.
4. Review age, physical descriptors, convictions, current facility, and corrections number before relying on a match.
5. Look for estimated parole eligibility date, next parole hearing date, estimated mandatory release date, estimated sentence discharge date, and release or discharge status where shown.
6. If a parole hearing is referenced, use the CDOC Parole Board calendar at https://www.doc.state.co.us/oss/index.php?ref=pblist.
7. For a county-jail release date, use the sheriff release record, the San Juan Combined Court docket, or the San Juan County released inmates search path instead.

Source lead-in: the manifest includes a Colorado offender-search reference for this projected-release page.

County Jail Release Has Different Rules

The San Juan County Jail release path is controlled by the local case, not by CDOC prison time computation. A person can be released from the jail because bond was posted, recognizance was ordered, charges were dismissed, time was served, probation was ordered, a warrant was cleared, or another agency took custody. Research did not find a San Juan County jail good-time formula or a county-published release-date calculator, so the page should not invent one.

For a local jail sentence or pretrial hold, confirm the release reason with the San Juan County Sheriff's Office or Jail at 970-387-5531 and compare it with the San Juan Combined Court docket. If the person was transported to CDOC after sentencing, the county record explains the transfer and CDOC becomes the forward-looking release-date source.

Colorado Earned Time and Parole Eligibility

Colorado parole and release estimates are driven by statute and sentence type. C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 sets parole eligibility rules for many felony sentences. For many cases, eligibility can occur after fifty percent of the imposed sentence, less earned time granted under C.R.S. 17-22.5-405. Some serious violent offenses have special seventy-five-percent rules, and Proposition 128, approved in November 2024, created an eighty-five-percent eligibility rule for certain covered violent crimes going forward.

C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 governs earned time. The statute generally allows earned time up to ten days per month based on demonstrated progress certified by a case manager or community parole officer, with additional paths for certain lower-level felony and drug-felony cases and some education or program credits. The key point is that earned time is a CDOC calculation, not a guarantee that every person leaves on the first visible estimate.

Parole Hearing Date Is Not Release

A next parole hearing date means the person may be scheduled for review by the Colorado State Board of Parole. It does not mean the person will walk out of custody on that date. The board can grant release, defer the case, defer to a mandatory release date, rescind a prior action, or handle revocation and review matters. Public decision reports are statewide and explain outcome categories, but they do not replace the individual CDOC record or an official time-calculation request.

For a San Juan County conviction that became a CDOC case, the Parole Board calendar can add context when the offender search points to a hearing. The research found that the CDOC calendar displays month-by-month schedules and allows users to work from a date, month, individual, or county-style calendar view depending on the public interface. Use it as a scheduling clue, then confirm status through CDOC, the offender detail page, and any later release or discharge entry.

Why a Projected Release Date Changes

CDOC estimates can move after the first public lookup. Treat them as a current public snapshot, not as a certified final time-computation record.

Confirming a Release Date

For CDOC cases, the public offender-search screen is a lookup tool. If an official calculation is required, use CDOC records and Time & Release contacts rather than treating a public screenshot as the final certified computation. For local San Juan County Jail cases, ask the sheriff for the booking and release record and check the court docket for the order that authorized release.

Colorado VINE can help with custody-change alerts for participating agencies. Register through the VINELink Inmate Search page for release, transfer, escape, or death notifications where available. If VINE does not show a released person, that does not prove there was no custody event; the record may have aged out, used an alias, or belonged to another system.

Which Record Holds the Date