Denver County Jail Releases
Denver County Jail at Smith Road is a Denver Sheriff local jail facility, not a CDOC prison. A person released from this jail may leave after a court order, bond, a completed local sentence, a transfer order, or another legal movement. Because Denver did not publish a dedicated recent-release list in the research, the reliable release trail is built from custody disappearance plus VINE, court records, DSD records, CDOC, BOP, ICE, or the receiving agency when a transfer occurred.
A release from this facility does not always mean the person is free of all supervision or custody. If the Denver jail record ended because CDOC received the person, the state offender search becomes the source. If BOP or ICE took custody, the federal system must be checked separately. If the court ordered probation, the court and probation record explain what comes next.
| Possible destination | Best confirmation path |
|---|---|
| Community release or bond | Denver County Court, VINE, and DSD release record |
| CDOC transfer | CDOC Offender Search and CDOC records |
| Another county or agency | Receiving agency and Denver Sheriff transfer record |
| Federal or ICE custody | BOP, ICE locator, federal court, and DSD records |
Confirm Denver County Jail Release
Start with the Denver inmate search for current custody. If the person appears, capture the booking number, inmate or CD number, facility, booking status, and court schedule if available. If the person does not appear after a known Denver booking, that may mean release, transfer, spelling mismatch, data lag, sealed record, or custody in another system.
- Use the Denver inmate search and search by name, booking number, or CD number.
- Check Colorado VINE for a person-specific custody status or release notification.
- Search Denver County Court or Denver District Court records to see whether bond, sentence, probation, or dismissal explains the release.
- Submit a Denver Sheriff records request when the release date, time, type, or destination needs official documentation.
- If the record points to CDOC, BOP, ICE, or another county, verify through that receiving system rather than the Denver jail search.
The Denver County released-inmate search on the home page explains how to move from local jail records to state, federal, and court records without treating one system as proof for all others.
Denver County Jail Contact
Use the jail phone for facility-specific custody questions and the Denver Sheriff records process for documents. Denver's records page says DSD requests must be filed electronically through the official form. It also says the first hour to research and retrieve records has no charge, paper copies are $0.25 per page, and staff time may be charged up to $41.37 per hour for longer work.
Denver County Jail
10500 E. Smith Rd.
Denver, CO 80239
Phone: 720-913-3642
DSD Property Bureau
5160 York Street
Denver, CO 80216
Phone: 720-865-0490
A narrow records request should name the person, date of birth if known, booking number, facility, approximate booking and release dates, and the exact record requested. Ask for the release date and time, release type, transfer record, or booking sheet instead of a broad file unless the broader file is truly needed.
Denver County Jail Property Release
The Denver Sheriff inmate handbook gives a Smith Road detail that differs from Downtown Detention Center. Denver County Jail property release to visitors is Monday through Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and the entire property bag is released rather than selected items. This matters when a person is already out but still needs property from the jail process.
According to the DSD inmate handbook, unclaimed property after release can be sent to the DSD Property Bureau. Ordinary unclaimed property may be disposed of 30 days after notification, while oversized property at an alternate storage site may be disposed of 60 days from release.
The handbook image is useful because property pickup can remain unresolved even after the Denver County Jail release has been confirmed through court, VINE, or DSD records.
Denver County Jail Records Route
Denver Sheriff release records are criminal justice records under Colorado's CCJRA framework. Denver's records materials treat pretrial or post-trial release from custody as an official-action category, but detailed files may still be redacted. Medical records, sealed records, protected personal identifiers, victim information, and confidential criminal-history material may be withheld or limited.
When the record involves a transfer, the request should ask for the transfer or release-to-agency notation. Then check the receiving system. A CDOC transfer is verified through the Colorado Department of Corrections. A federal sentence or BOP custody path is verified through BOP. An immigration custody event is verified separately through ICE.
Denver County Jail Detainers
ICE detainers and federal warrants should be framed as separate from Denver County Jail release. ICE says detainers are requests lodged after a local, state, or federal agency has taken a noncitizen into custody. A detainer does not by itself prove that the person is in ICE custody after Denver release. Check the Denver release through DSD or court records, then use the ICE Online Detainee Locator if immigration custody is suspected.
For BOP custody, use the federal locator only when the person was federally sentenced, federally held, or transferred toward federal custody. BOP does not confirm an ordinary Denver jail release unless the federal custody path applies.
Denver County Sentence Release
A Denver County Jail release after a local sentence is not calculated the same way as a CDOC prison release. The jail record may show the end of local custody, but the court mittimus, jail credit, sentence terms, and any holds explain why release occurred on that date. If the person was sentenced to probation, the next source is the court and probation office. If the person was sentenced to CDOC, the Denver jail release may be a transfer rather than a community release.
That distinction protects against a common error. A person can disappear from the Denver jail search because Denver custody ended, yet still appear in CDOC as a state inmate or parolee. The Denver County Jail page should be read as a local jail release route. State-prison release dates, estimated mandatory release dates, and sentence discharge dates belong in CDOC records.
Denver Jail Release Fields
The Denver County Jail release record should be requested by field when possible. Ask for the booking number, facility, booking date, release date, release time, release type, court case number, bond status if relevant, and destination if the person was transferred. If the record is tied to a local sentence, include the court case number and approximate sentence date. If the person may have been moved to another agency, ask for the release-to-agency or transfer notation.
Denver's records page says criminal justice records are governed by CCJRA and that broad requests can cost more. A narrow request for release fields can reduce confusion and avoid asking for protected material that may be redacted. The same request should not ask Denver Sheriff to certify CDOC parole, BOP release, or ICE custody. Those systems have separate records.
Smith Road Follow-Up
The Smith Road jail is often involved when the question is longer local custody, property, sentence completion, or a transfer after court. Families may need two tracks at once: confirming the legal release and handling property. A person can be released from custody while property still follows the DSD Property Bureau path. The release record documents custody; the property record helps with belongings after custody ends.
If the person was recently in Denver County Jail and no longer appears in the current-custody search, check whether the court case still has a future hearing, probation order, warrant issue, or sentence entry. The court record may show why jail custody ended while still leaving obligations in place. If the jail record points to CDOC, the next release-date question belongs to state time computation. If it points to another county or federal agency, the receiving agency must be checked before calling the person fully released from all custody.
This is also the page where Denver's property detail matters most. Unlike Downtown Detention Center's round-the-clock property release, Denver County Jail uses weekday afternoon and evening property-release hours listed in the handbook. That difference can affect a family member who confirmed release but still needs to recover a complete property bag or follow the Property Bureau route after the person has left custody.
When a search is time-sensitive, separate the custody question from the paperwork question. VINE may show a custody change before a full records response is available. The court portal may show the order before the jail record is retrieved. Denver Sheriff records then provide the local release event in the agency file. Reading all three together gives a more reliable Smith Road release picture.