What the Calendar Shows
The public CDOC OSS interface includes a Par. Board tab at doc.state.co.us/oss/index.php?ref=pblist. Research notes say the page presents monthly calendars, lets users hover over a date to pull up that day's schedule, and lets users click a calendar title to view a larger calendar. For a Prowers County sentence, the calendar can show a hearing before a decision, but it does not state that a person has been released from prison.
A scheduled hearing may lead to parole granted, parole deferred, rescission issues, revocation proceedings, or another board action depending on case type. The State Board of Parole FY 2023 report explains that a defer means the inmate continues serving the sentence and parole is deferred to the next possible consideration date determined by statute. Use that meaning rather than treating every hearing as an upcoming release date.
How to Check a Prowers Case
- Start with the Prowers County court case to verify that the person was sentenced to CDOC.
- Search the CDOC Offender Search by DOCNO or name and read the current facility assignment and estimated date fields.
- Open the Par. Board calendar and review the relevant monthly schedule.
- Compare any hearing date to the CDOC detail record and the court sentence.
- Confirm final release, parole, or discharge information with CDOC or the supervising office, not the calendar alone.
Board Contact and Local Limits
Colorado State Board of Parole
1600 W. 24th St., Bldg. 54
Pueblo, CO 81003
719-583-5800
Contact listed in the FY 2022 report
Prowers County Jail releases on bond, sentence served, or court order do not appear on the parole calendar unless the person later becomes a CDOC inmate. For local jail events, use the sheriff at 103 East Oak Street in Lamar and Prowers County Combined Court at 301 S. Main, Suite 300. For post-prison supervision in the Prowers area, the archived local-office source points to La Junta coverage, but current appointment details should be verified with CDOC.
Eligibility and Date Cautions
Colorado parole eligibility depends on sentence type, offense date, time calculations, statute, parole-board action, and holds. General Assembly material describes certain violent offenses before the Proposition 128 change as parole-eligible after 75% of the imposed sentence less earned time. Proposition 128 changed certain crimes of violence committed on or after January 1, 2025 to an 85% threshold before discretionary parole or earned-time reductions. Because the rules are offense-date-sensitive, a calendar entry should be read with the court sentence and CDOC estimated fields.
Reading Hearing Outcomes
The calendar should be read as a scheduling tool. A release application hearing or review can occur after parole eligibility has arrived and before mandatory release, but the hearing itself is not the release. Colorado parole materials use terms that should be kept precise. A grant can lead toward release to parole when all required steps are complete. A defer means the inmate continues serving the sentence until the next possible consideration date. A rescission issue can affect a previously expected release. Revocation and continuation terms can appear for people already on parole.
For a Prowers County case, the public route is to identify the CDOC person first, then compare the hearing date to the offender-detail fields. If the court case in Lamar shows only local jail time or probation, the parole calendar is the wrong source. If the court case shows a DOC sentence, the hearing calendar may help explain why an estimated release has not yet occurred or why a parole date is still uncertain.
Process Table
| Step | Record to use |
|---|---|
| Confirm state sentence | Prowers County Combined Court mittimus or sentencing record. |
| Find state custody record | CDOC Offender Search by DOCNO or name. |
| Check possible hearing | CDOC OSS Par. Board monthly calendar. |
| Confirm outcome | CDOC, parole-board records, or supervising parole contact. |
| Confirm local jail event | Prowers County Sheriff's Office records. |
This table prevents a common error: treating a parole-board hearing as though it were the same thing as a county jail release. The sheriff can confirm a release from Prowers County Jail. CDOC and the parole board handle the state prison parole path.
Local Records to Pair
Prowers County Combined Court is at 301 S. Main, Suite 300, Lamar, phone 719-336-7424. That court can show the sentence county, case number, and disposition that tie a Prowers case to CDOC. The Prowers County Sheriff's Office is at 103 East Oak Street, Lamar, phone 719-336-8050, and can address the local jail booking or release record. If the person returns to Prowers County on parole, the archived La Junta office listing is a local lead, but the current office contact should be verified through CDOC.
Colorado VINE may be useful for notification if the person appears in a participating custody feed, but VINE is not the same as the Parole Board calendar and not the same as a certified release record. When the public sources appear inconsistent, the order of confidence should be court sentence, CDOC confirmation, parole-board or supervision contact, then notification tools as supporting information.
What Not to Infer
Do not infer release from the existence of a parole hearing. Do not infer denial from the word defer without reading the decision context. Do not infer Prowers County Jail custody from a CDOC calendar entry. The calendar is a public scheduling aid for state parole proceedings, and the county jail has a separate release-record process through sheriff records.
When a Prowers County family member or researcher sees a hearing date, the next step is to compare that date to the CDOC offender-detail fields and the court sentence. If a projected or estimated date has changed, the explanation may be earned time, discipline, consecutive sentences, holds, or board action. The public calendar alone cannot sort those inputs.
Prowers-Specific Use Case
A Prowers County state-prison parole question usually starts in Lamar but does not stay there. The court sentence and mittimus come from Prowers County Combined Court. The prison custody record comes from CDOC. The hearing schedule comes from the Colorado State Board of Parole calendar. The local parole-office route may point toward southeastern Colorado supervision only after prison release. That sequence is the reason this calendar page repeatedly separates county jail release from prison parole.
If a person is still in Prowers County Jail awaiting a hearing, the parole calendar is not the right source. If a person has been sentenced to DOC and is nearing an estimated parole eligibility date, the calendar may become relevant. If a person is already assigned to a parole region, the release from prison may have occurred even though supervision continues. Each of those statuses requires a different confirmation source.