Downtown Detention Center Releases
The Downtown Detention Center, also known in Denver materials as the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, is the local jail facility most connected with booking, court movement, and bond release. A person released from this building may go back to the community, report to probation, return for a later court date, move to another Denver Sheriff facility, transfer to CDOC, or leave with another agency if a lawful transfer applies. The Denver inmate search is a current-custody locator, not a historical release index, so absence from that search is only a starting point.
For a local jail release, the most useful trail is the booking number, court case, release authority, and facility. Denver County Court records can explain whether the person left after bond, personal recognizance, sentence, dismissal, or another court action. Colorado VINE can show a custody-status change for a specific person. When the online route is not enough, the Denver Sheriff Department records process is the formal way to ask for a booking or release record.
Release destination: Downtown Detention Center releases most often point to community release, court supervision, another Denver Sheriff location, CDOC transfer, or another receiving agency named in the record.
Confirm Downtown Detention Center Release
Use Denver's official systems in sequence. The first question is whether the person is still in Denver Sheriff custody. If the person appears in the Denver inmate search, the release has not been confirmed from Denver custody. If the person no longer appears and was recently booked at Downtown Detention Center, move to VINE, court, and records channels before assuming the case is over.
- Search the Denver inmate search by name, booking number, or CD number and note the facility and booking status if a record appears.
- Check Colorado VINE or call (888) 263-8463 for a custody-status change tied to Denver Sheriff custody.
- Search the Denver County Court public portal by case number, arrest booking number, or name and date of birth for bond, sentence, or disposition details.
- Use the Denver Sheriff public-records process when release date, release time, release type, or transfer destination must be documented.
The broader Denver County released-inmate search path is covered from the home page, including when to switch from Denver Sheriff records to CDOC, BOP, or ICE sources. A Downtown Detention Center release should not be treated as proof that no other case, hold, parole status, or receiving agency exists.
Denver's Court Services page says bonding inmates are generally released within a two-hour window after bond is signed by all parties. The same page directs bonding-process questions to the Denver County Court Bonding Office, not to the Sheriff Department.
Downtown Detention Center Records
The contact path depends on the question. Call the facility for custody-location issues, use the Bonding Office for bond-processing questions, and use the Denver Sheriff records form for a release or booking record. Denver Sheriff records requests must be submitted electronically through the public-records form; telephone and social-media records requests are denied under Denver's stated process.
Downtown Detention Center
490 W. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80204
Phone: 720-337-0400
Denver County Court Bonding Office
Downtown Detention Center lobby
490 East Colfax, Denver, CO
Phone: 720-337-0062
Verify current hours before relying on a release time.
For a records request, include the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking number, facility, approximate booking date, approximate release date, and the specific record sought. Useful request terms include release date and time, release type, bond-release record, transfer record, booking sheet, or official-action record.
About Downtown Detention Center
Downtown Detention Center is operated by the Denver Sheriff Department for the City and County of Denver. Denver is both a city and county, so this is not a separate county sheriff website with a different jail system. The building handles local detention functions connected with intake, court appearances, bond, video visits, and short-term custody.
The Denver Sheriff inmate handbook gives a release-specific detail that matters after custody ends: property release to visitors at Downtown Detention Center is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and money releases from inmate accounts can occur there twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
That handbook image supports the local release distinction between Downtown Detention Center and Denver County Jail, especially when property or money remains after a person is already out of custody.
Downtown Release Property And Bond
Downtown Detention Center has two local release details that should not be merged with the Smith Road jail. First, the court bond desk is connected to the DDC lobby, and Denver directs bonding questions to Denver County Court. Second, DDC property release is available around the clock under the inmate handbook, while the Denver County Jail property schedule is more limited.
If a person was released before property was picked up, ask about the DSD Property Bureau route. Denver's research notes that unclaimed property may be sent to the DSD Property Bureau at 5160 York Street, Denver, CO 80216, phone 720-865-0490. Ordinary unclaimed property may be disposed of after the stated notice period, so property follow-up should not wait just because the custody question has been resolved.
Note: Bond release, property release, and court disposition are separate records, even when all three involve the same Downtown Detention Center booking.
Downtown Detention Center Detainers
An ICE detainer or federal hold is separate from a Denver jail release. ICE describes detainers as requests lodged after local or state custody, while Denver release confirmation still runs through Denver Sheriff records, VINE, and court records. If an immigration transfer is suspected, verify Denver's release event first and then check the ICE Online Detainee Locator or official ICE contact routes.
A Denver jail release also does not prove that no federal, state, or court supervision remains. A transfer to CDOC should be checked through the Colorado Department of Corrections. A federal custody path should be checked through federal court records and the BOP locator when applicable.
Downtown Court Release Match
Downtown Detention Center release checks often need the Denver County Court record because the building is tied to bonding and court movement. The court portal can search by case number, arrest booking number, or name and date of birth. The register of actions can show bond, next hearing, sentence, dismissal, or probation activity that explains why the jail custody entry ended. For felony or district-level matters, Denver District Court records use Colorado Judicial Branch channels.
Match the court record back to the jail record with the booking number, case number, date, and facility. If the court shows a bond order but the person still appears in custody, release processing may not be complete. If the person no longer appears in the Denver jail search, the court record may explain the legal reason, while the Denver Sheriff release record documents the facility and release event.
Downtown Release Record Fields
A Downtown Detention Center release request should focus on the fields that prove the local custody event. Useful fields include full name, booking number, inmate or CD number, facility, booking date, release date and time, release type, release authority, bond status, case number, charge list, and transfer destination if one applies. Denver's public lookup may show some current booking fields, but the official release event may require the DSD records process.
When the release followed bond, ask for the bond-release information and compare it to the Denver County Court Bonding Office record. When the release followed a disposition or probation sentence, the court register of actions may provide the legal reason. When the release was a transfer, the receiving agency should be checked next. This field-by-field approach is more reliable than treating a missing roster result as a complete answer.
For Downtown Detention Center, the timing of the record can matter as much as the label. Denver's local bond page gives a general two-hour post-signing expectation, while state bond law gives a broader timing rule unless extraordinary circumstances exist. A record may therefore show several steps: court action, bond signing, return to jail for processing, release processing, and final exit or transfer. VINE may show a custody-status change, but DSD records and the court record explain the official sequence.
If the person was released from DDC after a dismissal or sentence to probation, the jail record may be short while the court record carries the reason. If the person was moved to Smith Road or CDOC, the DDC record is only the first facility step. That is why the release request should name Downtown Detention Center and ask whether the event was release, internal movement, or transfer.