Kit Carson Jail Release Paths
The Kit Carson County Jail function is operated by the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office. The useful release question is not just whether the person is still listed in custody. The research found no official Kit Carson County current-inmate roster, no sheriff 24-hour release feed, and no 72-hour release feed. That absence changes the order of work. A released person may not have a public row to click, so the sheriff booking or release record and the Kit Carson County court record become the main sources for a local jail release.
A Kit Carson County Jail release can end in several different places. Bond or personal recognizance means the person leaves local custody while the case continues. Time served means the jail sentence or credited custody term has been met. A dismissal or court-order release means the jail acted on a court directive. A transfer to another county, CDOC, BOP, ICE, or another agency means Kit Carson County custody ended, but the person may not have been released to the community. Each path leaves a different public trail.
| Release path | Best confirmation source | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or court order | Sheriff release record and Kit Carson County court docket | Local jail custody ended, but the court case may still be active. |
| Time served or local sentence completion | Sheriff booking/release record and sentencing court record | The county jail term ended under the local court case. |
| Transfer to CDOC | CDOC offender search and sheriff transfer record | County custody ended, but state prison or parole records control the later release. |
| Federal or immigration transfer | Sheriff record, BOP locator, ICE channels, or federal court records | The local release may be a transfer, not a community release. |
Confirm Kit Carson Release Records
The cleanest way to verify a Kit Carson County Jail release is to reconcile the sheriff record with the court or custody system that explains why the release happened. Start with the local jail because the sheriff is the county detention custodian. Then check court events because bond, advisement, sentencing, dismissal, probation, and warrant activity usually start in the Kit Carson County case record. Colorado VINE can help with custody-change alerts when the jail or agency participates, but VINE is an alert system, not the official release order.
The Kit Carson County court page gives a local clue: advisement and bond hearings for people held in the county jail are held daily by Webex. A bond hearing can lead to release if bond is posted or conditions are ordered. It can also leave the person in jail if another hold, warrant, or case controls. The sheriff should confirm that the release paperwork has actually been processed before a court event is treated as a jail release.
- Call or write the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office and ask for the public booking or release record tied to the person, booking date, and case number if known.
- Search the Colorado Judicial Branch docket for the Kit Carson County case to see bond, advisement, disposition, sentence, or warrant events.
- Use Colorado VINE for custody-change alerts if the person may still be in a participating jail or has a recent status change.
- Use CDOC offender search only when the person was sentenced or transferred to state prison custody.
- Use the BOP inmate locator or ICE contact channels if the sheriff record shows a federal or immigration transfer.
Kit Carson Jail Contact
The official local source found in the research is the Burlington city resource directory listing for the Kit Carson County Sheriff. Use that contact for the jail or sheriff records office before relying on unofficial roster sites. The sheriff's public social account can be useful as a contact signal, but it is not the legal records custodian for a jail release record. Written requests should identify the person clearly and ask for the specific public release fields needed.
Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office
251 16th St.
Burlington, CO 80807
Phone: 719-346-8934
Fax: 719-346-7282
Kit Carson County Court
Use the county court page and docket tools for bond, advisement, disposition, and sentence records tied to a jail release.
A county jail request can ask for the booking number, booking date and time, release date and time, release reason, bond or court-order reference, arresting agency, public charge information, transfer destination if any, and whether a booking photo is releasable under Colorado criminal-justice records law. If the release was to probation, court records and the local probation office may hold the next public trail. If the release was to parole, CDOC is the better state source.
Note: Ask for the release record, not just a current custody check, because the person may already be off any live jail view.
Kit Carson Release Record Fields
Because no official Kit Carson County release feed was found, the field list should be treated as a request checklist rather than a published online table. Colorado criminal-justice records are handled under CCJRA, and the custodian may review, redact, or quote fees according to state law and local practice. A precise request gives the sheriff or records custodian a better chance to identify the correct booking and release event.
| Name and identifying details | Full name, date of birth if releasable, and other details that help distinguish people with similar names. |
|---|---|
| Booking information | Booking number, booking date and time, arresting agency, and public charge information. |
| Release information | Release date and time, release type, release reason, and releasing authority. |
| Court or bond link | Case number, bond status, advisement event, court order, or sentence reference. |
| Transfer or hold | Transfer destination, warrant or hold information if public, and whether another agency took custody. |
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation explains that CCJRA requests must be submitted in writing and evaluated under Colorado criminal-justice records law. The state attorney general's office also describes written or electronic request norms for its own records process. For Kit Carson County Jail records, the sheriff remains the local custodian to contact first.
Kit Carson Jail Source View
The research image for the county jail uses the public-facing sheriff contact source. The Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office public page is useful as a social contact signal, while release-record requests still route to the sheriff or jail records office.
This image supports the facility identity and public contact trail, not a claim that social media is an official release archive.
Kit Carson Jail Custody Limits
The Kit Carson County Jail page should not read like a state-prison page. County jail custody covers arrests, holds, pretrial detention, bond processing, short local sentences, and transfers ordered by a court or another agency. CDOC records matter only when the person entered state prison or parole. BOP records matter only for federal custody. ICE records matter only for immigration custody. A local jail release can be one step in a longer case, not the final end of all legal control.
The Kit Carson Correctional Center is a separate historical facility, not the current county jail. People sometimes mix the two because both are tied to Burlington, but their release records route to different custodians. The county jail release path starts with the sheriff and court. The former prison path starts with CDOC and state-prison records.
Closed Prison Confusion
Angle L matters on this jail page because Kit Carson County has a local name that can mislead release searches. Kit Carson Correctional Center was a large private state-prison facility in Burlington, but CDOC reported that the contract expired on July 31, 2016 and Colorado offenders had been removed by July 27, 2016. That closure means a current search for a Kit Carson County Jail release should not be routed to the closed prison as if it were still receiving county detainees.
Historic prison searches are still valid. A person who once lived at the former correctional center may later appear in CDOC offender search, parole-board material, CDOC records, or sentencing court records. That is a state-prison release or discharge question. It is not the same as a bond, time-served, or transfer release from the active Kit Carson County Sheriff detention function.
The CoreCivic facility page preserves the former facility identity, and the CDOC private-prison annual report supplies the closure and removal dates. Use both facts to keep local jail release searches from being sent to the wrong records system.