What the Parole Calendar Shows
The Colorado State Board of Parole calendar is reached through the CDOC public search interface at doc.state.co.us/oss/index.php?ref=pblist. The research source describes it as a month-and-date calendar with visible upcoming months. Users can hover over a date to pull up that day's schedule and click a calendar title to view a larger calendar. That schedule helps explain whether a state prisoner is nearing a parole review, but it does not prove that a person has already been released.
For Montezuma County release work, the boundary matters. A local detainee may leave the Montezuma County Detention Center because of bond, time served, court order, alternative sentencing, or a transfer. If the jail record says the person went to CDOC, the next public channel becomes Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search and, when parole is involved, this parole calendar. If the jail release was local or probation-related, use the Sheriff's records channel and Montezuma Combined Courts instead.
How to Use the Hearing Schedule
Start with the person, not the date. Search CDOC first by DOC number when available, because the CDOC search tips identify DOC number as the department's primary identification number. If the number is unknown, search by last name, first name, and gender. Name searches can return records that begin with the entered letters, and the name on record may be the prosecuted name rather than the current legal name.
- Open CDOC Offender Search and confirm that the person is a state offender.
- Review the profile for custody, parole, discharge, and time-computation context.
- Open the parole-board calendar from the CDOC interface or the direct calendar URL.
- Check the relevant month and date for a scheduled hearing.
- Treat the calendar as schedule evidence only; confirm any grant, denial, deferral, rescission, or discharge through the offender profile, CDOC records, or Board action notice if available.
A scheduled parole hearing is not the same thing as a release date. A grant may still depend on a date, plan, conditions, and later changes. A denial or deferral means the person remains in custody until a later review or mandatory-release context. A continued or rescheduled date should be read as calendar movement, not as proof of release.
State Parole Records and Contacts
The calendar is operated in the state corrections environment, so official time-computation and parole-status questions belong with CDOC or the parole authority, not the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office. The county Sheriff can document that a person left the Montezuma County Detention Center. CDOC documents state custody, state parole, discharge, and profile status after a county transfer to prison.
| Need | Best source |
|---|---|
| Upcoming parole hearing date | Colorado State Board of Parole calendar through CDOC |
| State custody or parole status | CDOC Offender Search and CDOC records confirmation |
| County jail release or transfer entry | Montezuma County Sheriff's Office Records Division |
| Court reason for release or sentence | Montezuma Combined Courts |
Parole Calendar vs County Release
Montezuma County has no state prison located in the county in the research reviewed. The county jail, at 730 East Driscoll Street in Cortez, is operated by the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office for local detention, court security, inmate transport, and alternative sentencing coordination. When a person leaves that jail for CDOC, the county release entry may be a transfer rather than a release to the community. That is why the parole calendar should be paired with a county release or transfer record if the starting question is "why did this person leave the jail?"
Colorado parole eligibility is governed by statutes such as C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 and earned-time rules in C.R.S. 17-22.5-405. The research cautions against reducing Colorado time computation to one simple percentage because offense date, sentence class, violent-offense rules, earned time, misconduct, parole eligibility, and mandatory-release rules can all affect the path. Use any projected date shown in CDOC as a public search clue, then confirm official calculations with CDOC when accuracy matters.
Montezuma County Supervision Context
Parole and probation are separate. A person released from state prison may be on parole through CDOC and the Division of Adult Parole. A person released from the Montezuma County Detention Center may instead be on probation through the Colorado Judicial Branch after a county or district court case. Montezuma County Probation is located at 865 North Park, Suite 200, Cortez, and its local program information includes DUI Court and Adult Sex Offender Management Program supervision details.
WAGEES adds a local reentry navigation point for parole because its Durango adult-parole location coverage includes Montezuma County. The research notes that community partners cannot authorize changes to a parole plan or parole jurisdiction; only the Division of Adult Parole can do that. Treat reentry information as navigation support, not as proof that a state prisoner has been released.
Calendar Is Not Decision
The Colorado State Board of Parole calendar helps explain whether a state prisoner may be approaching a hearing, but the calendar is not a county jail release list and is not a complete decision archive in the research. A scheduled hearing can be granted, denied, deferred, continued, rescinded, or moved. The actual effect should be checked through the offender profile, parole records, board action notice if available, or CDOC confirmation.
For Montezuma County release questions, this distinction prevents a common error. A person who bonded out of the county jail does not appear on the state parole calendar just because they were once in jail. The calendar is relevant when the person is a CDOC offender with a parole matter. Local jail release records and state parole schedules answer different questions.
Parole Eligibility Context
Colorado parole eligibility is controlled by statute and offense category. The research identifies C.R.S. 17-22.5-403 as the main eligibility statute, with general fifty-percent language for many felony classes and special percentage-service rules for listed violent offenses and date windows. Earned time under C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 can affect timing, and older sentence categories may involve C.R.S. 17-22.5-302.
That means the parole calendar should be read as one piece of a state-custody file. It does not replace the Montezuma County release record, the court sentence, or CDOC's official time calculation. If a release date matters, compare the court sentence, CDOC profile, parole calendar, and any county transfer entry instead of relying on a single calendar entry.