Crowley County Parole or Probation
Parole follows a Colorado Department of Corrections prison sentence. Probation is a court sentence or court-supervision order. That split matters in Crowley County because the county has a local sheriff jail function and two state prison facilities. A person released from the Crowley County Sheriff's Office / Crowley County Jail function may be on bond, time served, or court probation. A person released from Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility or Crowley County Correctional Facility is in the CDOC path, which can include parole, mandatory release, discharge, or transfer.
Use the first table as a routing check. It helps separate a local jail release from a state-prison release before a records request is made.
| Status | Who orders it | Where Crowley County release proof is checked |
|---|---|---|
| Probation | Crowley Combined Court or another sentencing court | Crowley Combined Court, docket search, court records request, and probation contact |
| Parole | Colorado State Board of Parole and CDOC | CDOC Offender Search, parole office, parole board calendar, and CDOC records |
| Discharge | CDOC or court, depending on sentence | CDOC release or discharge fields, court disposition, and records request |
| Warrant or absconder issue | Court, sheriff, parole, or probation authority | Court docket, Sheriff's Office confirmation, CDOC fugitive or parole resources where applicable |
- Parole
- Supervision after a CDOC prison sentence, often with a mandatory term set by Colorado law.
- Probation
- Court supervision that may occur instead of prison, after jail, or after a violation case is resolved.
- Discharge
- The end of a custody or supervision term, shown through the agency or court record that controlled the sentence.
- Absconder
- A supervision status that may mean the person is accused of failing to report or leaving supervision contact.
Verify Crowley County Supervision
The cleanest way to verify Crowley County probation and parole is to start with the release source. Do not use a live jail roster as the only check for a released person. A person may be gone from the roster because the jail release already happened. The next record may be a bond order, a probation order, a CDOC offender record, a parole hearing entry, or a court disposition.
For a named-person release search, the broader custody path is covered on the Crowley County released inmates home page. For supervision only, follow the narrower sequence below.
Use court records when the supervision question starts with probation. The Colorado Judicial Branch Access Guide says case dispositions and other person or case records can be requested through the online records request form, and the court location will follow up. That is the right channel for a probation order, deferred sentence, revocation resolution, sentence completion, or court disposition tied to a Crowley County jail release.
- Decide whether the person left the local jail function or a CDOC prison facility in Crowley County.
- For a local jail release, check Crowley Combined Court for bond, disposition, sentence, probation, or warrant entries.
- For an AVCF or CCCF release, search by DOC number when possible in CDOC Offender Search and read the parole, release, or discharge fields.
- Use the CDOC parole board calendar for scheduled hearing context, not as a final decision record.
- Confirm the person-specific supervising office through CDOC, parole documents, the probation office, or the court handling the case.
- Use Colorado VINE for custody-change alerts when the person is still in a participating feed.
CDOC warns that offender-search data may contain errors and should be confirmed with the department. That warning is important when a release date or supervision status will drive a court step, travel plan, report date, or family contact plan. Court records can also lag or use short status terms, so the best proof is the record from the agency that controls the status.
Note: A released person may appear in a court or CDOC record after dropping off a jail custody view.
Crowley County Release Offices
CDOC says its Division of Adult Parole has 19 parole offices statewide. Southern field operations include Alamosa, Canon City, Colorado Springs, La Junta, and Pueblo. Crowley County sits in southeastern Colorado, but a person-specific parole office should not be guessed from geography alone. CDOC, the parole paperwork, or the supervising officer should confirm it.
Crowley County probation is a court-supervision path. The Crowley Combined Court is in the 16th Judicial District, and its public page links to probation, docket search, record search request, transcript request, and payments. The court record is often the more durable source after a local jail release because it may show bond status, sentence, probation order, mittimus, warrant recall, or case closure.
Use CDOC records when the supervision question starts with parole. CDOC says most Colorado felony convictions include a mandatory parole period after release from prison for people sentenced to CDOC. Class-based examples include three years for class 2-5 felonies, two years for class 6 felonies, and five years for some violent-crime categories. The actual term still depends on the conviction and sentence.
Supervision and Release Contacts
Crowley Combined Court
110 East 6th Street, Room 303
Ordway, CO 81063
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
CDOC Adult Parole Headquarters
940 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 763-2420
CDOC Open Records
Email: doc_open_records@state.co.us
Use for inmate departmental records and parole or release-record requests routed through CDOC.
Crowley County Reentry Planning
Crowley County has a local reentry detail that many counties do not have: CDOC lists release case managers tied to both state prison facilities in the county. The CDOC RESTORE page lists Cathy O'Neal as release case manager for Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, Region II. It lists Rebecca Gribble and Laura Rodriguez as release case managers for Crowley County Correctional Facility, also in Region II.
That information does not create a public lookup for released people. It does show that release planning for AVCF and CCCF is a CDOC process, not a Crowley sheriff jail process. A person leaving a CDOC prison may have release planning, parole coordination, education or reentry staff contact, and a community parole officer. The sheriff's office is not the right agency to verify those CDOC prison-release steps unless the person was also booked locally on a separate matter.
The CDOC State ID Program is another post-release source to understand. CDOC says it reviews state ID or driver license status at intake, may order IDs for eligible people, works on birth certificate and social security documentation, and can issue a waiver for some discharging or parole-status people who still must prove identity under Real ID and Department of Revenue rules. This belongs in the state-prison release lane for AVCF and CCCF, not in the county jail release lane.
The CDOC RESTORE source shows local release-planning context for Crowley County prison releases.
Use this source as a navigation aid for CDOC transition planning, then confirm person-specific status through CDOC records or the assigned office.
Crowley County Violation Checks
Supervision conditions are person-specific. A court probation order may control reporting, treatment, payments, travel, or contact limits. A CDOC parole order may control reporting, location rules, treatment, and other release terms. Public pages should not infer a person's conditions from the charge alone. The court, probation office, parole officer, CDOC record, or the written order is the source to use.
No Crowley-specific public absconder list was located in the research. If a release appears to have turned into a warrant issue, check the court docket for failure-to-appear or warrant entries, call the Sheriff's Office for county warrant confirmation, and use CDOC parole or fugitive resources for state parole matters. VINE may also send custody-change alerts if a person is returned to custody in a participating feed, but it is not a full warrant database.
Important: A no-result search in VINE, CDOC, or court tools does not prove that supervision ended. It can mean the person is outside the tool's feed, indexed under a different name, or controlled by another agency.
Crowley County Supervision Discharge
Supervision ends through the authority that controls the sentence. For CDOC parole, look for a parole, release, or discharge status in CDOC records, then confirm with CDOC if the exact end date matters. For probation, look to the Crowley Combined Court or the court that sentenced the person. A case record may show sentence completion, revocation, termination, warrant recall, or another order that explains the person's status.
Colorado public-records law is relevant here. CDOC's CORA and CCJRA page says CDOC evaluates requests under the public-record and criminal-justice-record statutes. The Colorado Attorney General explains that official action includes release from custody and probation or parole decisions, and that official-action records must be open for inspection. Full case files, juvenile records, sealed records, medical information, and some non-official-action records can still be limited.
That distinction keeps the request narrow. Ask for the official action showing supervision, release, discharge, warrant recall, or disposition first. If more records are needed, the custodian can explain whether the file is public, discretionary, sealed, juvenile, or outside that office.
Use the record custodian that created the status. For a jail release, contact Crowley County Sheriff's Office records or the court. For an AVCF or CCCF release, use CDOC Offender Search, CDOC records, the parole office, or the parole board source. For a federal transfer, use BOP, USMS, or ICE sources instead of a Crowley County supervision office.