Elbert Jail Release Paths
The Elbert County Jail / Elbert County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility is the county jail for local custody events. The official Detentions page says it houses adult male and female inmates for Elizabeth and Simla police matters, the Colorado State Patrol, and state and federal law-enforcement agencies. It holds both unadjudicated people and sentenced inmates, which means a release from this facility can have several outcomes.
A person may leave the jail after bond, sentence completion, court order, dismissal, or probation. Another person may be released to CDOC, USMS, BOP, ICE, another county, or another agency. A transfer is not the same as community release. The sheriff release record should identify the release reason or transfer destination when that information is releasable.
| Exit from jail | What it means | Next place to check |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or court release | Local custody ended while the case may continue. | Sheriff release record and Elbert County court docket. |
| Time served | Local jail sentence or hold was satisfied. | Sheriff booking/release record and sentencing record. |
| Probation | Court supervision follows release. | Elbert County court records and probation office. |
| CDOC transfer | The person became a state-prison or parole matter. | Colorado Department of Corrections offender search. |
| Federal or ICE transfer | County custody ended, but another agency took custody. | BOP, ICE ODLS, USMS, or federal court records. |
Confirm Elbert Jail Release
No official Elbert County public recent-release feed or normal web roster was found in the research sources. The sheriff FAQ says current jail roster information is available by calling 303-621-2027 with the person's full name and date of birth. That phone check is a current-custody route. It does not replace a written release record when the person has already left the facility.
- Call 303-621-2027 for current Elbert County Jail custody status and provide full name and date of birth.
- If the person is no longer held, request the booking report and release/discharge information from sheriff records.
- Use Colorado VINE if a release, transfer, or escape notification was registered.
- Check Elbert County court records for bond, dismissal, sentencing, probation, warrant, or mittimus entries.
- If the release was a transfer, follow CDOC, BOP, ICE, USMS, or the receiving county's locator.
The broader Elbert County released inmates search path explains how sheriff records, VINE, court records, CDOC, and federal locators fit together after a local jail release.
Important distinction: a person released from the Elbert County Jail may be out of local custody but still under court, parole, probation, federal, or immigration authority.
Elbert Jail Records Contact
The sheriff's records process is the formal local path for release documents from this facility. The records page says requests may be submitted in person, by mail, or by email. Complete requests are processed in order received and may take up to three working days, with possible extension for unusually extensive circumstances. Active pending court matters may be referred to the District Attorney for discovery.
751 Ute Avenue
Kiowa, CO 80117
303-621-2027
Fax: 303-621-2055
Records email: sorecords@elbertcounty-co.gov
Mail: P.O. Box 486, Kiowa, CO 80117
Use the Sheriff's Office Criminal Justice Records Requests page and the 2025 request form for booking reports, mug shots, CAD, photos, dispatch audio, and other releasable records. Requested copies are held for 90 days if not picked up, then destroyed and reordered with new fees.
About Elbert County Jail
The Detentions Division says it has existed since Elbert County was established on February 2, 1874, and the current jail was built in 1984. The facility provides services inside secured areas, including education, medical, rehabilitation, religious, and visitation services. Commissary and phone services are tied to Inmate Canteen, and the jail kitchen serves about 48,000 meals each year.
The official detention page is shown in the captured source image below from Elbert County Detentions.
The county page is facility context. It does not publish a public release roster, so release confirmation still goes through the phone, records, VINE, court, and transfer paths.
Elizabeth and Simla Holds
Police-department holds from Elizabeth and Simla are handled through the Elbert County Jail in the research sources, not through separate city-jail release searches. If a municipal arrestee was booked into this county facility, the release from physical custody is documented by the sheriff's jail record. The arresting agency or court record may add context, but the jail release event remains a county detention record.
The same logic applies to Colorado State Patrol and state or federal law-enforcement holds housed at the jail. Ask the sheriff record to identify the release or transfer destination. Then use the receiving agency if the person left county custody for state prison, federal custody, immigration detention, or another local facility.
This is why the release request should name the facility and the date range. A municipal case can still have an Elbert County Jail booking report, a sheriff release entry, and a separate court or police record. If the record says "released to another agency," keep following the agency chain until the next custody system is identified.
Elbert Jail Mail and Visits
The county FAQ lists the detention facility address and visiting hours as 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. It also identifies inmate mail as Elbert County Jail, inmate full name, P.O. Box 486, Kiowa, CO 80117. Those details are useful for current custody, but they do not confirm a release after a person leaves the roster.
For release work, use visitation and mail details only as facility context. A released person may no longer receive jail mail or visits, and a transferred person may need the receiving agency's mail and visitation rules. The release record is the document that separates those outcomes.
Commissary and phone services also stop being the main route once a person leaves the jail. The FAQ ties money to Inmate Canteen accounts during custody. After release or transfer, ask the jail how property and account balances are handled for that booking event instead of assuming the same process applies to every release type.
Federal Transfers from Elbert
The Elbert County Jail can house people for state and federal law-enforcement agencies, but no stand-alone BOP prison or ICE detention center was identified inside Elbert County. If the jail record shows a federal or immigration handoff, the county release is a transfer. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal sentenced custody, ICE's detainee locator for current immigration detention, and USMS or federal court records for federal pretrial custody.
That distinction protects the accuracy of an Elbert County jail release search. "Released from Elbert County" may mean released to the community, released to probation, or released to another custodian. The sheriff record should be used to identify which one occurred before a broader search moves to state or federal systems.
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