Releases from the County Jail
Arapahoe County Detention Facility is the primary county jail for this release-record site. It is operated by the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, Detention Services Bureau, at 7375 S. Potomac St. in Centennial. A person released from this jail normally leaves the live “Inmate Lookup, Charges and Bonds” system because that tool is a current custody and bond-status channel, not a guaranteed historical release archive.
The next record depends on the release type. A bond release may be explained by the jail booking record and the court file. A sentence or time-served release may require the court disposition. A transfer to Colorado Department of Corrections, federal custody, ICE, another county, parole, probation, or community corrections must be followed through the receiving agency. The county lookup can show that someone is not currently found, but the release record is confirmed through the custodian that holds the booking, custody, or court file.
Source view from the manifest: Arapahoe County detention facility expansion and funding materials.
How to Confirm a Jail Release
Use the county search first only to test whether the person is still in current custody. The Arapahoe lookup may show name, ID, booking, total bond, charge or offense, bond type, docket or disposition, and court date or location. If the person is missing after a likely release, call the automated information system at 720-874-3500 or contact Records at 720-874-3875 for the booking or custody record path.
- Search the current Arapahoe “Inmate Lookup, Charges and Bonds” page by last name or the first part of the last name.
- If the person is not found, treat that as a current-roster result, not a complete release record.
- Call 720-874-3500 for jail information; use option 7 when the question is release notification through the county's victim-notification route.
- Request a booking, custody, or in-custody report through the Sheriff's Office records portal when written confirmation is needed.
- Check the Arapahoe County court record for bond orders, sentence, dismissal, mittimus, probation, or other disposition language.
- Use CDOC, BOP, or ICE only when the jail release record or court file indicates a transfer into state, federal, or immigration custody.
The home page's release-search guide links these channels together for Arapahoe County released inmates, but this facility page is the county-jail-specific path.
Detention Records and Contact
The jail contact path is practical because Arapahoe County does not publish a verified 24-hour or 72-hour public release feed in the research materials. The Detention Services Bureau lists the detention facility address, Detentions Main number, automated information system, and a victim-notification option through the same phone line. The Sheriff's Records Unit manages criminal justice records for cases and bookings, while court dispositions belong with the Judicial Branch.
Arapahoe County Detention Facility
7375 S. Potomac St.
Centennial, CO 80112
Detentions Main: 720-874-3500
Automated information: 720-874-3500
Records: 720-874-3875
Records channels include booking photo, case or citation report, incident report, and in-custody or custody report. Booking photos are requestable through the records process, but Arapahoe County notes that photos may not be immediately available and are released during weekday business hours only after the required C.R.S. 24-72-305.5 acknowledgement is on file.
About the Detention Facility
This is a county jail, not a state prison and not a federal immigration facility. It holds people tied to local arrest, bond, court, sentence, transport, or agency-transfer events. Because county jail records and court records answer different questions, a release from this facility should be checked against both the jail custody record and the Arapahoe County case record when the reason for release matters.
The Sheriff's Office 2024 Annual Report reported 13,415 total bookings and 13,384 total releases, which explains why people search for recent Arapahoe releases even without an official rolling release list. County news also describes a $46.4 million expansion and renovation project for a building originally opened in 1986 for a much smaller population and later averaging roughly 850 to 950 inmates per day in public updates.
County Release or Transfer
Arapahoe County also contains the Denver Contract Detention Facility, also known as the Aurora ICE Processing Center. That matters because a person can leave the county jail yet remain in custody if another agency takes the person. If the jail record indicates a federal hold, ICE pickup, or transfer, the accurate wording is transfer from Arapahoe County custody, not necessarily community release.
For ICE custody, use ICE's Online Detainee Locator System, the Aurora facility or Denver field office, and immigration court. For federal criminal custody, use U.S. Marshals or Bureau of Prisons channels. For Colorado prison custody, use the CDOC offender search. Those systems are separate from the Arapahoe current jail lookup.
Local Facility Context
The jail's age and renovation history are useful context, but they should not be used to guess release timing. County materials say the original 1986 detention center was built for a maximum of 386 people and that later public updates described average daily populations far above that original design. Release confirmation still comes from records, VINE, court, and receiving-agency channels, not from assumptions about jail population or construction.