CDCR Release Records

Releases from CDCR

CDCR becomes relevant to Butte County released-inmate research when a person was sentenced to state prison, transferred from Butte County Jail to state custody, placed in a CDCR pre-release community program, released to state parole, or released to Postrelease Community Supervision after a prison term. A person released from the Butte County Jail on bail, own recognizance, citation, dismissal, or a short local sentence may never appear in CDCR at all. That distinction prevents a common mistake: using a state-prison search to answer a county jail release question.

When a Butte Superior Court case results in a prison commitment, the jail release may be a transfer rather than a community release. The Butte County weekly booking log can help identify the local booking event, while the court docket explains sentence and commitment. After state reception, CDCR records, CIRIS, parole records, PRCS records, and Board of Parole Hearings records become the better release path. If the person returns to Butte County after prison, the next agency may be the Chico parole unit for state parole or Butte County Probation for PRCS.

How to Confirm a CDCR Release

Start with the California Incarcerated Records and Information Search at CIRIS. Search by name and, when available, CDCR number. CA.gov describes CIRIS results as including name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment counties, admission date, and Board of Parole Hearing dates and outcomes for people currently in CDCR custody. The current-custody emphasis matters. If a former prisoner is not visible, that absence is not a final release record by itself; it can reflect release, discharge, data limits, a name mismatch, or the fact that the person was never a CDCR prisoner.

1. Confirm from the Butte Superior Court record whether the case ended in a state-prison commitment rather than county jail, probation, dismissal, or local release.
2. Search CIRIS with the person's full name and CDCR number if known, and compare commitment county, age, and location details before relying on the result.
3. If the person is still in CDCR custody, read the current location and any BPH dates or outcomes as state-prison information, not as a Butte County jail roster.
4. If the person has been released from prison, check state parole through the Chico parole unit or PRCS through Butte County Probation, depending on the supervision type.
5. Use CDCR public records when a release date, discharge status, sentencing action, or older state-prison record is needed and CIRIS does not answer it.

CDCR Records and Contact

CDCR records requests should be directed to CDCR public-records channels when the question is about a state-prison release, state sentence, CDCR discharge, or a former state prisoner who no longer appears in the public search. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, CDCR number if known, Butte County case number if known, and the specific record requested. Narrow language such as "release date and discharge or parole/PRCS status for this CDCR term" is more useful than a broad request for every record.

About CDCR in Butte County Cases

CDCR is California's state prison and adult parole system. It is separate from the Butte County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division, which operates the county jail at 5 Gillick Way in Oroville. A county booking log may show the arrest, warrant, hold, or remand that began the local jail event, but CDCR is involved only when the case or supervision path reaches state prison, state parole, PRCS after prison, BPH parole consideration, or a CDCR community placement.

California release-date vocabulary is specific. The Board of Parole Hearings defines the Earliest Possible Release Date for many determinate sentences, the Minimum Eligible Parole Date for indeterminate cases, the Nonviolent Parole Eligible Date under Proposition 57, the Youth Parole Eligible Date, and the Elderly Parole Eligible Date. Those fields are state-prison concepts. Butte County jail release dates are computed from local sentence, credits, holds, and court paperwork, including the jail handbook's note that local time computation may occur after complete sentencing on all cases and can take one to four weeks depending on sentence type.

Parole, PRCS, and Butte County

State parole and PRCS are the two local follow-up paths most likely to matter after a CDCR release. State parole is handled by CDCR's Division of Adult Parole Operations. The local office for the Butte County area is the Chico parole unit at 1370 Ridgewood Drive, Suite 14, Chico. PRCS is different: CDCR states that PRCS is county supervision after release from CDCR and that the person is discharged from CDCR jurisdiction once on PRCS. In Butte County, that makes the Probation Department the local PRCS agency.

Use this distinction when a booking log mentions a parole hold, PRCS hold, Penal Code section 3000.08 parole violation, or Penal Code section 3455 PRCS violation. Those terms do not prove release; they identify the custody reason or supervision issue. A parole matter may return to CDCR or DAPO, while PRCS generally runs through county probation and the court. The release confirmation should reconcile the jail record, the court docket, and the supervision agency rather than treating any one label as the final answer.

BPH Hearings and Release Timing

The Board of Parole Hearings conducts parole suitability proceedings and nonviolent offender parole reviews for adults under CDCR jurisdiction. BPH hearing schedules include date, time, location, and whether a hearing is in person or by video conference, and schedules are updated weekly on Thursday morning. BPH results use outcome terms such as grant, deny, continue, cancelled, split, postpone, waive, and stipulation.

A BPH grant is not the same as immediate door release. BPH explains that proposed decisions may be reviewed by the legal division, the full Board, and in certain cases the Governor. Some grants become final within 120 days, and certain final decisions have a 30-day Governor review period. A person may also have additional time to serve or another barrier. For a Butte County family trying to confirm actual release, BPH is a release-decision source, while CDCR, parole, PRCS, and records requests confirm the final custody change.

Butte County Reentry Placement

CDCR identifies Butte County as a Male Community Reentry Program location, and an Inside CDCR article describes the Butte County Male Community Reentry Program in Oroville as serving multiple northern California counties. This is not a Butte County jail release list. It is a state pre-release or community program within the CDCR framework. A person in that setting may be physically in Butte County before final release while still tied to CDCR rules, state release-date fields, and later parole or PRCS placement.