Search Garfield County Inmate Population Records

Garfield County Inmate Population Overview

The Garfield County inmate population has two official facility tracks. The local jail track is the Garfield County Jail, operated by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office in Glenwood Springs. It holds male and female prisoners for the sheriff and for law enforcement agencies across Garfield County, including arrests from Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Carbondale, New Castle, Silt, Parachute, Colorado State Patrol activity in the county, warrants, court holds, and short local sentences. That population appears on the sheriff's current inmate PDF, which is the public county jail roster.

The second track is Rifle Correctional Center, a Colorado Department of Corrections facility in Rifle. It is physically in Garfield County, but it is not part of the sheriff's jail roster. Rifle Correctional Center houses sentenced state prisoners assigned by CDOC. This distinction matters because adding the jail count and the state-prison count together can blur two different populations. The Garfield County inmate population for local arrest lookup is a county jail count. The prison population is a state DOC count tied to Colorado sentencing and CDOC placement.

The Garfield County Sheriff's Office homepage links the public current-inmates PDF, records requests, VINE, and jail contact blocks in one place.

The homepage is the practical starting point because it separates current jail custody, records requests, and notification resources before a reader moves to state or federal locators.

Garfield County Inmate Population Statistics

The strongest official local numbers are the jail's rated capacity and a point-in-time roster count. The sheriff's jail page reports a capacity of 199 inmates. The current inmate PDF observed during research showed 65 inmates in custody as of June 1, 2026 at 2:45 p.m. That makes the inspected jail occupancy about 32.7 percent of rated capacity. This is a snapshot, not an annual average daily population, so it should not be used as a full-year trend.

Garfield County Jail Count Trends

Garfield County did not publish a multi-year official jail average daily population table in the research set. The county roster gives a current custody snapshot, while the jail page gives a fixed capacity number. That is enough to describe the inspected population, but it is not enough to claim a local year-over-year rise or drop. A careful trend statement must keep the point-in-time jail roster separate from outside trend datasets that were located but not extracted for Garfield County.

Note: Use the roster count as a custody snapshot only; released people and state-prison inmates are not part of that jail number.

Who Makes Up Garfield County Jail Custody

The Garfield County jail roster shows enough detail to identify the public custody category, but it does not publish a full demographic profile. Age and gender appear on the public PDF. Race, ethnicity, height, weight, housing unit, arresting agency, and full date of birth were not visible in the inspected roster text. Charge descriptions sometimes include felony, misdemeanor, petty offense, parole violation, writ, fugitive warrant, contempt, or bond revocation wording, but the roster does not provide a clean pretrial-versus-sentenced field.

• Current inmates: People booked into the Garfield County Jail and still listed in custody at the roster timestamp.
• Recent arrests: Newer bookings shown above the main current-custody list.
• Recent releases: People no longer in jail but still visible in the short release section.
• State prisoners: Sentenced CDOC inmates, including people at Rifle Correctional Center, searched through CDOC instead of the county PDF.
• Federal or immigration custody: Separate BOP, U.S. Marshals, or ICE channels, not a Garfield County jail category.

Garfield County Jail Capacity

The sheriff describes the jail as a facility opened in December 2001 with seven inmate living areas. Two living areas are direct supervision areas, meaning detention deputies work inside the housing area. The jail is built for minimum, medium, maximum, special needs, inmate worker, and medical observation or isolation classifications. Classification deputies use an objective jail classification point system, and inmates are reclassified on a 30-day basis. That classification work affects housing, supervision, and privileges, but individual classification level is not shown on the public roster.

The official jail overview is the source for the capacity, housing, staffing, classification, and medical-care facts used in Garfield County inmate population context.

Those details explain why the roster count is only one part of the population picture; jail beds, classification, medical observation, and behavior-based reclassification shape where inmates are housed.

Garfield County Inmate Population Laws

Colorado law splits public records and criminal justice records into related but distinct rules. The Garfield County jail roster is a public-facing custody list, while booking sheets, adult booking photos, reports, and court files may require a records request or court access path. The sheriff's Records Division applies a three-business-day response norm, with a CORA extension not exceeding seven additional business days for CORA-defined public records when more time is needed.

Garfield County State Prison Population

Rifle Correctional Center is the state-prison piece of Garfield County's detention map. CDOC describes it as a Level I minimum-security facility on a rural 75-acre site in western Garfield County. It began in the 1960s as a satellite labor camp and now includes community-based labor service, education, vocational training, and reintegration programs. Its inmates are sentenced state prisoners assigned through CDOC custody decisions, not people waiting in the county jail after a fresh arrest.

The Colorado DOC Offender Search is the correct lookup for Rifle Correctional Center and other CDOC inmates.

Using the DOC locator prevents a common error: a person transferred out of the county jail after sentencing may disappear from the Garfield County roster but appear in the statewide corrections system.

Search Garfield County Inmate Population

The official Garfield County jail search channel is a PDF, not a name-search web database. The sheriff homepage labels the link as current inmates and says it is automatically updated every two hours. Open the PDF, check the timestamp, and use browser or PDF find for the last name, first name, booking number, or charge text. Search more than one spelling when names are hyphenated, abbreviated, or shown in different case formats.

1. Open the Garfield County current inmates PDF from the sheriff's site.
2. Check the timestamp before relying on the count or a custody status.
3. Use Ctrl+F or the PDF search tool to search by last name, first name, booking number, or charge text.
4. Check recent arrests first for a new booking, then the main current-in-custody list.
5. Check recent releases if the person may have bonded out, completed a local sentence, or been transferred.
6. Call Jail & Booking if the name is missing and the arrest may be too new for the PDF.

Garfield County Roster Fields

The roster has no search box, filters, tabs, or sort controls. Its public value comes from the visible fields in the PDF. The main in-custody list is alphabetized by inmate name in the inspected file. Recent arrest and release blocks appear above the main list, which helps when a booking or release is too new to find in the body of the document.

Garfield County Released Inmate Records

Released people may remain in the recent releases block for a short time, but the public PDF is not an archive. For older booking sheets, adult booking photos, criminal reports, or traffic reports, use the Garfield County Sheriff's Office Records Division. The records page says a signed request form, a photocopy of the requester's license or ID, and payment are required before records are released. Some reports cannot be released through the records counter and may require District Attorney discovery or court disposition records.

The records-request path is also the better route when the roster lacks fields a reader expected, such as full date of birth, address, case number, arresting agency, housing unit, or booking photo. Colorado law and local release rules may still limit what can be provided.

Garfield County Inmate Record Details

A public Garfield County inmate record from the PDF is a custody summary. It is useful for confirming a booking number, charge text, bond or release-status field, booking date, and custody days. It is not a full arrest report, court file, criminal history, or jail classification record. Court charges can change after prosecutor review, and a roster charge is not a conviction.

County Jail vs State Prison Lookup

The right search channel depends on custody type. A person arrested in Garfield County usually starts in the county jail system. If convicted and sentenced to state prison, the person moves into CDOC custody and should be searched through the statewide locator. Federal and immigration custody are separate again. A missing name on the Garfield County roster does not prove the person is free.

Garfield County Detention Facilities

Garfield County has one confirmed local jail and one confirmed state prison facility in the research map. The county jail is the correct facility for sheriff and local-agency arrests. Rifle Correctional Center is a state facility, so its inmate search, visiting approval, and records path run through CDOC. No separate public municipal jail roster, BOP prison, or dedicated ICE detention facility was confirmed inside Garfield County.

• Garfield County Jail holds male and female local jail prisoners for the sheriff and law enforcement agencies within Garfield County.
• Rifle Correctional Center holds sentenced Colorado DOC inmates at a Level I minimum-security state prison in Rifle.

Garfield County Custody Terms

Several short terms appear across the Garfield County jail roster, records request process, and court path. Knowing the terms helps keep jail records separate from court records and state-prison records.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, warrant commitment, remand, sentence, or another custody order.

Charge

An alleged offense listed at booking or filed later in court; it is not the same as a conviction.

Bond

A court release condition that may involve money, a surety bondsman, personal recognizance, or no-bond status.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that may affect release even when a local bond exists.

DOC

The Colorado Department of Corrections, the state prison system after sentencing.

Garfield County Inmate Population FAQ