The La Plata County 72-Hour Release List
A 72-hour release list normally answers who was released from the jail over the last three days, including weekend or holiday releases that a same-day check could miss. La Plata County's official inmate-search page does not provide a county-hosted rolling 72-hour table in the reviewed source. It routes county jail custody checks to Colorado VINELink, state prison checks to CDOC Offender Search, and immigration custody checks to ICE.
That means the three-day page should be read as a verification guide, not as a hidden feed. A person dropping off the current-custody route may have been released, transferred, entered another system, or may not appear because of search or data timing. Confirm the release reason through sheriff records or the court when the exact basis matters.
How to Check Who Was Released in the Last 72 Hours
Use this sequence when the question is whether a La Plata County jail detainee was released sometime in the last three days.
- Start at the official La Plata County inmate-search page and use the VINELink route for county jail custody.
- Search Colorado VINELink by name or known ID, then read the current status and available notification details.
- If the person is not in current county custody, check the court record for bond, sentence, dismissal, warrant, probation, or transfer information.
- Request sheriff records if you need the release date, release time, booking sheet, custody disposition, or release reason.
- Use CDOC for state-prison or parole status, ICE for immigration detention, and BOP or federal court channels for federal custody.
For a same-day release question, the companion body guide is Jail Releases: 24 Hours.
What the 72-Hour Release List Shows
No official La Plata County 72-hour feed fields were found. The useful fields are records-request and verification targets rather than public table columns.
| Field | How to Verify It |
|---|---|
| Name and identifying details | Use VINELink, the sheriff request form, court records, and known identifiers to avoid false matches. |
| Release date or time | Request it from sheriff records because no county 72-hour table publishes it online. |
| Release reason | Confirm through sheriff records and the court record, especially for bond, sentence, probation, dismissal, or transfer. |
| Releasing or receiving agency | Check whether the person left the jail to the community, CDOC, ICE, federal custody, or another agency. |
| Booking sheet or mugshot | The sheriff's form includes Booking Sheet/Mugshot as a request option, subject to review and fees. |
Weekend and Holiday Releases
A 72-hour view is often used to catch Friday night, weekend, holiday, and court-calendar releases. In La Plata County, the official sources did not give a public weekend release-feed cadence or retention rule, so do not assume a name remains visible for three days. Use VINELink for custody status, then confirm with the jail or records office if pickup, travel, bond, or court timing depends on it.
The jail contact page gives the detention facility address as 742 Turner Drive in Durango and jail phone as 970-247-1161, ext. 2. The records office handles criminal justice records from 283 Girard Street during posted weekday records hours. For a specific person beyond the recent-release window, use the broader released-inmate search path.
Release, Transfer, or Supervision
The three-day question is not always "did this person walk out of jail?" A La Plata County detainee can leave the local facility because of bond, personal recognizance release, time served, sentence completion, court order, dismissal, transfer to CDOC, transfer to federal custody, ICE transfer, probation, pretrial services, or another alternative-custody status. The county sources reviewed do not publish a field dictionary that assigns every release reason to a public label, so the safest workflow is to verify the custody change against the court case and the agency that received or supervised the person.
This distinction is especially important in La Plata County because the official inmate-search page separates local jail, CDOC, and ICE paths. CDOC is the state-prison and parole system, not a county jail release list. ICE is an immigration custody locator, not proof that a person was released to the community. Federal custody may involve USMS before any BOP record appears. A 72-hour check should therefore ask which system now has the record, not only whether the person disappeared from county custody.
If There Is No 72-Hour Release List Online
La Plata County's negative finding should stay explicit: no official county 24-hour, 48-hour, or 72-hour recent-release page was found in the reviewed sources. The fallback URLs are the county inmate-search page, Colorado VINELink, the Sheriff's Office records request page, the records-release form, and the Colorado Judicial Branch record request system.
The Sheriff's Office records page gives an important timing rule for requests, not for public feed retention: if the department tries to contact a requester to clarify or discuss scope and the requester does not respond within ten business days, the department closes the request and requires a new records request. That rule is not a 72-hour online retention statement.
No County Recent-Release Feed
The main La Plata County data quirk is that the county's official public pathway is split by custody type. The inmate-search page sends county custody to VINELink, state prison custody to CDOC, and immigration custody to ICE. A release from the La Plata County Detention Facility may therefore be confirmed through different systems depending on whether the person was released to the community, moved to parole or probation, transferred to another agency, or entered a state, federal, or immigration process.