The Colorado Department of Corrections maintains a searchable public database of all of the inmates they have in custody.
The prison that an inmate is assigned to depends on factors such as security classification, remaining time of their sentence, gang affiliation, and location of their residence.
The Colorado State Prison System began in 1868, when the Territorial Legislature first authorized the state to lock up prison convicts.
Today the state of Colorado Prison System maintains 21 prisons, two of which are privately run. With a staff of 6,000 correctional workers, as of the end of 2023 they oversee approximately 20,000 inmates, with another 10,000 on parole, supervised release or absconded.
The following will explain the instructions, tricks and hacks you can use to find any inmate in custody with the Colorado Department of Corrections.
The Colorado Department of Corrections provides a limited amount of information you may want to know about any inmate in their system, however they do list every inmate.
To look up an inmate, you don't even need to know the spelling of their name.
In Colorado inmates sentenced to state prison will generally be eligible for parole halfway through their sentence.
This 50% mark MAY NOT include the time they may have spent in jail awaiting their trial and/or sentencing.
In addition to the parole eligibility, inmates earn 'good time credits' for every day they spend in jail. This is also known as 'Earned Time'.
Earned time is a monthly award of either 10 or 12 days per month (as determined by the crime). This 10-12 days is deducted from the sentence. Additional information regarding earned time, including eligibility requirements and information on the different types of earned time, may be found in Administrative Regulation 550-12 Earned Time.
Good time is applied to the full sentence including all time credits/earned time/presentence confinement credit.
If you have questions or concerns regarding the specifics of someone's sentence computation, contact Time and Release Operations directly by emailing the incarcerated individual's name and DOC number to DOC_Time_Release_Operations@state.co.us.
The Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator includes inmates that are not only in custody, but who have been in custody and have been released (or who died in custody) since 1982.
For inmates in custody prior to 1982, visit the National Archives Records Administration and provide the following information:
Searching by Name
Searching by Name Results
Searching by Number
Searching by Number Result
Things to Know About Federal Inmate Search Results
When someone that is not a US Citizen gets arrested in the United States, and they are here illegally, depending on what state or city they are arrested in, the person may be turned over to ICE.
Many states such as New York and California, as well as hundreds of US cities, have declared themselves 'sanctuary cities' and do not turn over foreigners here illegally, even if they are committing crimes in their jurisdiction.
However, when an alien here illegally is turned over to ICE, and sent to one of the over 100 Immigration Detention Centers in the United States, the only way to try and locate where they are being detained is using the Online Detainee Locator System.
You can look them up using their assigned A-Number.
You can also try and look them up by using their name.
