Find Duchesne County Jail Releases

Duchesne Jail Release Paths

Duchesne County Jail holds two groups under different legal authority. A person awaiting a local case or serving a county sentence may leave on bond, recognizance, a court order, time served, sentence completion, or placement in Pre-Trial Monitoring. A Utah state prisoner may occupy a Duchesne contract bed while still under Utah Department of Corrections authority. The county jail's custody episode can end for that person through movement to another site, without ending the state sentence.

The best local record answers both when Duchesne stopped holding the person and what happened next. Ask for the release timestamp, disposition, releasing authority, and receiving agency or destination if that information is public. Pair those fields with the court case. A release order explains legal authority, but it may not show when staff completed processing. A jail timestamp shows the physical custody change, but the transfer field is needed to tell community release from continued confinement.

Confirm a Duchesne Jail Release

The official Duchesne County Jail information page gives facility contacts but no public roster or recent-release search. A person who does not appear online has not thereby been shown released. Immediate questions begin with the jail line. Give the full name, date of birth or booking number if known, and an approximate booking date. Ask staff to distinguish a community release from a transfer.

Use this order when documentary proof matters:

1. Call the jail and ask whether the custody episode ended by release or transfer.
2. Check the Eighth District or justice-court case for bond, sentence, dismissal, probation, or release orders.
3. Submit a focused Sheriff GRAMA request for the booking and release entry.
4. If the disposition names UDC, switch to the UDC Offender Search and the newest Board decision.
5. If it names ICE, BOP, or USMS, use the receiving federal system before describing a community release.

Duchesne Jail Release Records

The Sheriff NextRequest portal is the direct online route for a written record request. A mailed request uses the destination printed on the Sheriff's GRAMA form, not the jail's general mailing box: Duchesne County Sheriff's Office, P.O. Box 985, Duchesne, UT 84021. Describe the record with care. A narrow date range and known booking or court number reduce the chance of a broad, costly search.

Request the legal name and aliases, booking identifier, intake and release timestamps, custody status, release type, releasing authority, bond disposition, and transfer destination if releasable. Possible fields are not promised fields. The records officer decides what exists and what Utah law permits the office to disclose. Ask for an electronic copy and a fee estimate before work exceeds a stated limit. Duchesne says ordinary GRAMA requests generally receive a response, denial, or extraordinary-circumstances notice within ten business days.

The official records portal shows the county's request channel:

The portal supports a written trail when a phone answer cannot serve as formal proof. Utah GRAMA allows redaction or withholding of protected material, so a partial response can still confirm the basic custody event.

Duchesne Jail Release Contact

The county's dedicated jail page is the controlling source for the current facility block. It lists 166 beds, while a Sheriff overview says 165. The dedicated page's figure is used here, with the discrepancy left visible rather than blended into a false single estimate. The jail houses county and state inmates and supports court transport for the Eighth District and West Justice Courts.

Use the jail line for present operational routing. Use the Sheriff's records process for a documentary release or transfer entry. The Sheriff's general records page says most office records are kept ten years and some indefinitely, but that statement is not a booking-record retention guarantee. Ask which archives schedule applies to the exact record sought.

Duchesne Monitoring Release Status

Pre-Trial Monitoring is a documented Duchesne County alternative to confinement. Placement means the person has physically left the jail cellblock, yet the criminal case has not necessarily ended. It is not parole, and it is not final discharge. The local court and program records define the conditions. This distinction matters when a family is trying to confirm where the person went after a jail exit.

The jail page lists operational contacts for the program: Lt. Scott Hargis at 435-738-1180 and shargis@duchesne.utah.gov, and Deputy Della Williams at 435-738-2015 and dwilliams@duchesne.utah.gov. Finance contacts are Sherrie Thompson at 435-738-1186 and Cynthia Wardle at 435-738-1182. Those contacts concern monitoring, not a general inmate search. Names and numbers should be checked against the live county page before use because staff assignments can change.

Pretrial monitoring

Community placement while a local case remains pending or subject to court controls.

Parole

Release from state prison under Board authority and UDC supervision.

Discharge

The end of supervision or sentence authority, depending on the controlling order.

Duchesne Jail Court Records

Court records provide the legal half of a Duchesne County release check. District courts handle felonies and class A misdemeanors. Justice courts handle class B and C misdemeanors, ordinances, and infractions. Search each plausible case because release on one matter does not clear a hold in another. A docket may show posted or reduced bail, recognizance, dismissal, acquittal, time served, probation, sentence terms, or a warrant action.

Utah XChange offers remote access and free public terminals at most district courthouses and the State Law Library. A party may use MyCase for their own case. The court record can support why release was ordered, yet it will not usually prove the exact hour jail staff ended custody. For that fact, return to the Sheriff release entry. Sealed, expunged, juvenile, and other nonpublic matters may not appear in a public search.

Note: A court order and a jail release timestamp answer different parts of the same Duchesne custody question.

Duchesne Release or Transfer

Duchesne's mixed county and state population creates a special risk of misreading a release. UDC says a state prisoner housed in a county contract jail is almost always taken to Utah State Correctional Facility for release processing. Direct state release from the county jail is described as extremely rare. Movement from Duchesne to USCF near a parole date is therefore continued state custody until UDC completes the process.

For a state-contract prisoner, use the UDC search by name or offender number, then read the newest Utah Board of Pardons and Parole decision. A parole date is prospective and may change. UDC's record or direct confirmation establishes actual processing. For a local detainee, use the Sheriff's entry and court docket instead. The Duchesne County released inmate search path compares these authorities when the correct custodian is uncertain.

Duchesne Release Destination Check

Every Duchesne County Jail result should include one direct question: which agency or destination received the person? “Released from Duchesne” can describe the end of the county's physical hold, not a return to the community. UDC release practice makes that warning concrete for state-contract inmates. The Sheriff transfer field is the bridge from the local episode to the next custodian.

If the answer is USCF, confirm status with UDC and the Board. If another county appears, contact that jail. An ICE or USMS notation calls for the appropriate federal path. Only a community disposition, supported by the jail record and any relevant court order, resolves the question as a local release. This destination check prevents a transfer from being reported as freedom and preserves the difference between county, state, and federal custody.

Note: Ask for the receiving agency even when staff confirms that Duchesne County's own custody episode has ended.