Phillips County Release Dates
A projected release date is an estimate or scheduled date. An actual release date is the date custody ends. That difference matters in Phillips County because the local jail, court, and state prison systems do not all use the same fields. A person held pretrial at the Phillips County jail function may be released by bond, court order, dismissal, transfer, or hold clearance without having a fixed projected release date. A sentenced state-prison inmate may have CDOC date fields that reflect parole eligibility, release, discharge, or other sentence milestones.
Do not calculate a date from scratch. The official calculation belongs to the custody agency or the sentencing court. Phillips County records can help identify the sentence, release order, or transfer. CDOC records can show the state-prison side, but CDOC's own disclaimer says database information can sometimes be inaccurate and should be confirmed with the department.
Find A Phillips Projected Date
Start by deciding whether the person is in county jail, state prison, federal custody, or already released. The lookup path changes. A local jail detainee's date may depend on the court docket and sheriff records. A state-prison inmate's date belongs with CDOC offender search and parole records. A federal prisoner belongs with BOP. Immigration custody belongs with ICE.
- For a local Phillips County jail case, check Phillips Combined Court for bond, sentencing, dismissal, probation, or mittimus entries.
- Request sheriff booking and release information if the person has already left local jail custody.
- For a state-prison sentence, search CDOC offender search by DOCNO or name fields.
- Review CDOC search tips if a name search fails, especially for hyphenated names or partial names.
- Check the parole-board calendar if a hearing may affect timing.
- Use VINE as an alert tool for covered county jail custody, not as the CDOC date calculator.
The main Phillips County released inmates page covers the broader search path when a person may already be out of custody.
For Phillips County jail custody, there may be no projected date to find. A pending case can turn on bond, a personal recognizance order, dismissal, a plea, a sentence to time served, or a hold from another agency. The court can show the order or disposition. The sheriff can show the custody event. Neither should be replaced by a generic release-date estimate.
CDOC Phillips Release Lookup
CDOC offender search is the primary online path for a released or soon-to-be-released Colorado state-prison inmate. It is not the right first source for a fresh Phillips County jail booking unless the person has a DOC record. The search fields include DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. CDOC search tips say DOC number is the primary department identifier and can be up to six numeric characters. Name searches return names beginning with the letters typed, and hyphenated double last names should be run together.
| CDOC item | Release-date value |
|---|---|
| DOCNO | Best way to avoid similar-name errors. |
| Name fields | Useful when the DOC number is unknown, but spelling and aliases can matter. |
| Parole/release/discharge dates | May appear as applicable on the offender record. |
| Current convictions | Helps identify the sentence tied to the date field. |
| Photo and descriptors | Help confirm the record belongs to the right person. |
CDOC search tips are a matched source for the field behavior. Source: CDOC offender search tips.
Use the CDOC result for state-prison timing, then verify important date questions with CDOC or court records.
CDOC's disclaimer is part of the date workflow. The department says it expects the website information to be accurate, but the database may sometimes contain inaccurate information and users should contact CDOC to confirm information. That warning is especially important when a date is being used to understand why a person did not leave custody on the expected day.
Colorado Earned Time Rules
Colorado earned time is one reason a projected release date can move. C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 allows earned time to be deducted from a sentence when a person demonstrates progress in listed categories. The section-level source used in the research states a general rule of not more than ten days for each month, with separate provisions that can allow up to twelve days per month for certain lower-level felony and drug felony categories if statutory conditions are met.
This does not mean every Phillips County inmate receives the same credit. Sentence type, offense date, offense class, disciplinary history, program progress, and statutory exclusions can all matter. The page should not promise a release date based on arithmetic. It should point to the official custody agency and sentencing record.
Good time and earned time are also not the same as a court saying a local jail detainee can be released today. A county jail release may depend on bond being posted, the court entering a release order, a hold being cleared, or transport being arranged. A DOC sentence calculation has its own statutory rules. Keep those tracks separate when reading a Phillips County release date.
Source: C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 earned time.
The statute explains why earned time can affect a state-prison date, while county jail release records still come from the local sheriff and court path.
Colorado 85 Percent Rule
Angle O from the research is central to this page. Proposition 128 changed parole eligibility for specified violent offenses committed on or after January 1, 2025. The initiative text describes an 85% parole-eligibility threshold for listed offenses such as second degree murder, first degree assault, class 2 felony kidnapping, sexual assault under the specified article, first degree arson, first degree burglary, and aggravated robbery. It also describes prior 75% rules for certain listed crimes committed on or after July 1, 2004, and before January 1, 2025, less earned time under C.R.S. 17-22.5-405.
Do not apply the 85% rule to every Colorado sentence. It is offense-specific and date-specific. Phillips County cases can involve local jail time, probation, state prison, parole, or federal custody, and each path has its own source. The safe wording is that Colorado has sentence-date rules that can affect parole eligibility and projected release, and the official calculation must come from CDOC or the sentencing court.
The rule also sits beside older offense-date categories and other parole eligibility statutes. That is why the date shown on a CDOC record can differ from what a layperson expects after reading only one statute summary. A Phillips County court record may identify the conviction and sentence, but CDOC applies the correctional sentence rules to the person in state custody.
Why Phillips Dates Change
A projected date is a working date, not a promise. It can change before the person leaves custody. CDOC, court orders, parole-board action, and outside holds can all affect timing.
| Factor | How it affects release |
|---|---|
| Earned time | Can move a state sentence date when statutory requirements are met. |
| Disciplinary loss | Can reduce or remove credit and push timing later. |
| Detainer or hold | Can prevent community release even when one custody term ends. |
| Court order | Can modify bond, sentence, probation, warrant, or custody status. |
| Parole decision | Can grant, defer, revoke, rescind, or otherwise affect the practical release timeline. |
| Transfer | Can move the person to DOC, another jail, federal custody, or immigration custody. |
A date change does not always mean an error. It can mean the person moved from one legal status to another. For example, a Phillips County jail release may be followed by DOC custody, another county's hold, federal custody, or a probation sentence. The release date from one agency may be real while the person is still not free from all custody or supervision.
Phillips Parole Calendar
The Colorado State Board of Parole calendar is housed inside CDOC offender search. The researched page shows monthly hearing calendars and says future months will be available after scheduling is set. It also says hearings and scheduling are subject to change, and that DOC modifications will be available the following business day. A parole hearing can affect a projected release date, but a hearing is not the same as physical release.
For application and rescission hearings, the calendar page points to the offender's case manager for attendance arrangements. For revocation hearings, it points to the jail where the offender is located. That distinction matters when a person was released, returned to custody, or delayed after a parole event. Source: Colorado State Board of Parole calendar.
The parole calendar provides schedule context, while CDOC and court records remain the source for individual status confirmation.
VINE Release Alerts
Colorado VINE can help with custody-change alerts for covered county jail data, but it is not a projected-date calculator. Phillips County's COVINE page says COVINE covers Colorado county jails that are online with the system and that CDOC has not been added to COVINE. Use VINE for alert registration when the person appears, then verify date and reason through sheriff or court records.
For state-prison release dates, use CDOC instead. For local jail release events, ask the sheriff for the booking and release record. For the alert setup itself, the VINELink check page covers search and notification steps.
When sources conflict, prefer the agency that owns the specific record. Use the sheriff for local custody release timing, Phillips Combined Court for orders and case disposition, CDOC for state-prison sentence dates, the parole board calendar for hearing timing, and BOP for federal custody. A projected date is most useful when it is tied back to the system that calculated it.
For a Phillips County request, keep local and state questions separate. Ask the sheriff when the person left the county jail. Ask the court what order or sentence controlled release. Ask CDOC what state-prison sentence date, parole date, release date, or discharge date applies. That division avoids treating one agency's answer as if it covered every custody system.
Phillips County Jail Dates
A local Phillips County jail detainee may not have a projected release date at all. Pretrial custody can end because bond is posted, a judge changes conditions, a case is dismissed, another agency takes custody, or a hold is cleared. The sheriff record can confirm the physical release date and reason after the event. The court record can show the order or disposition that changed legal status.
For a short local jail sentence, the exact date may depend on the sentencing order, jail credit, time served, and any later court action. The research did not verify a Phillips County jail good-time policy, so no county-specific calculation should be made. Use the court order and sheriff release record instead of applying CDOC prison rules to a local jail sentence.
Federal Release Date Checks
Federal custody is outside Phillips County's local release-date system. BOP's inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 forward and warns that sentence review or recalculation can affect release dates. BOP also explains that if the listed release date is in the past and no facility location is shown, the person was released from BOP custody on that date. That does not prove there is no supervision or no other custody system involved.
ICE's locator is for current ICE custody or CBP custody lasting more than 48 hours. It is not a Phillips County jail projected-date tool. If a local detainee was transferred to federal or immigration custody, the sheriff record or court file may be needed to identify the receiving agency before a federal lookup makes sense.
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