Find Hartford County Release Dates

Hartford Projected Versus Actual Release

A projected date is a working calculation. An actual release is the custody event that occurred after DOC, the court, and any other holding authority completed the required steps. Connecticut's official terminology matters. The CT DOC inmate-information field list uses minimum release date, maximum release date, and estimated release date. It does not label one universal field as a county projected date.

Estimated release date is the Connecticut field closest to the common phrase “projected release date.” Maximum release date is the outer sentence date shown for a sentenced person, subject to legal changes and custody complications. Minimum release date is a separate field where applicable. None of these should be read without status, current location, sentence details, and detainer information.

A person may reach a CT DOC release point and move to another authority. A detainer can lead to transfer rather than release to the street. A person who remains at Hartford CC is still in DOC custody. Someone who moved to the UConn Health Medical-Surgical Ward also remains in DOC custody while treated there. The hospital is not a release-date source.

Pretrial Hartford County Release Timing

Hartford Correctional Center is a CT DOC level 4 facility that primarily holds pretrial adult men for courts in Bristol, Enfield, Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, New Britain, Rockville, and West Hartford. Pretrial custody does not operate like a fixed prison sentence. Release may depend on bond, dismissal, acquittal, a court order, a change in charges, a transfer, or another hold. Until the court and custody conditions are met, there may be no set day to display.

The current DOC location answers where the person is held, not when a court will act. The Judicial Branch case record supplies the disposition and sentence context. Search across the relevant Hartford-area court locations rather than assuming every case sits in Hartford Judicial District. A bond release may end physical custody while the case remains pending.

Note: Current incarceration does not prove conviction because Connecticut DOC also holds accused people who are awaiting trial.

Find a Hartford Projected Release Date

The CT DOC search is the main state route for a person held at Hartford CC or another Connecticut correctional facility. Hartford County has no separate sheriff offender search. Search by a DOC number when possible because names can match more than one person.

1. Open the CT.gov inmate search landing page or the direct CT DOC form. Use the inmate number alone if known.
2. If the number is unknown, enter the first few letters of the last name. The direct search page recommends this narrower input for better results.
3. Confirm the date of birth, DOC number, status, controlling offense, and admission data. Do not rely on a name alone.
4. Read current location first. Hartford CC, another DOC facility, or a DOC medical ward means the person remains in the state correctional system.
5. Compare minimum release date, maximum release date, and estimated release date. Keep the labels distinct when saving or discussing the result.
6. Check the detainer field. Another agency's hold may change where the person goes at the DOC release point.
7. Use the Judicial Branch convictions search for the sentence and disposition. Then contact DOC Public Information or file an FOI request if official confirmation is needed.

The official direct-search screenshot in the project manifest comes from the CT DOC search used for Hartford County release-date research.

The fields on the live result must still be checked against the DOC FAQ and the underlying court sentence.

The Hartford County released-inmate search covers the wider proof chain when the issue is whether someone already left custody rather than when release might occur.

Hartford Release Date Field Names

Connecticut's three public date labels prevent a common error. Estimated release date is a forecast based on the information and calculation in the DOC system. Minimum release date is another listed sentence field. Maximum release date marks the maximum date shown for the custodial sentence. Special parole end date, when present, concerns the supervision term and should not be substituted for the date physical custody ends.

The CT DOC FAQ also identifies sentencing date, minimum and maximum sentence, status, admission date, detainer, correctional history, and disciplinary history. These fields give the dates context. An estimated date without the sentence, status, and detainer can mislead. A maximum date without a later court correction can also become stale.

Estimated release date

DOC's closest public equivalent to a projected or tentative release date.

Minimum release date

A separate official date field that applies where DOC reports it.

Maximum release date

The outer sentence-release date shown in DOC data, subject to legal and custody changes.

Parole eligibility date

The earliest legal date for possible parole consideration, not a promised release.

Detainer

A hold or request from another authority that may block community release.

The official field-inventory image below comes from the CT DOC FAQ that documents Connecticut's release-date labels.

That inventory supports date interpretation, while the individual DOC record supplies the person-specific values.

Hartford Release Dates and Good Time

Connecticut good conduct credit is governed by C.G.S. § 18-7a. The amount and framework depend on the offense and sentence dates identified by the statute. For people sentenced on and after October 1, 1976, subsection (a) describes ten days per month for sentences not over five years and fifteen days per month for the sixth and each later year of a longer sentence. Later subsections use ten days per month through five years and twelve days per month for later years within their date structures.

The statute also permits loss of credit for misconduct or refusal to obey rules. That is one reason an estimated release date can move later. The public result does not show every calculation step, and a general credit rate should never be applied to a named person without knowing which subsection and legal facts control.

Hartford County does not have a separate county good-time policy for this project. The state system operates both jail-function pretrial custody and sentenced prison custody. Pretrial detainees may receive jail credit if later sentenced, but a court and DOC calculation establish its effect.

Hartford Release Dates and Parole

Parole timing is not the same calculation as maximum discharge. Connecticut parole regulations define parole eligibility date as the earliest date on which an inmate may be allowed to go at large on parole under § 54-125a. Eligibility allows consideration. The Board of Pardons and Paroles may still grant, deny, continue, defer, or otherwise act within its authority.

The BOPP parole eligibility page says people whose offenses involved use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force must serve at least 85 percent of the total effective sentence, less jail credit, before the board may parole them. For covered offenses committed on or after July 1, 2013, risk-reduction earned credits do not reduce that 85-percent parole eligibility date.

The source image below comes from the official BOPP eligibility source assigned to Hartford County projected-release research.

The offense, effective sentence, jail credit, statutory dates, and any youth-offense rule must all be verified before applying that guidance to one person.

Note: A posted parole hearing establishes a scheduled proceeding, not the outcome or the date of actual community release.

Why Hartford Release Dates Change

CT.gov warns that release dates are subject to change and that not all statuses are processed in the computer system. A date can move because the legal calculation changed, the person lost credit, a hold became active, or the public system has not caught up with the underlying event. Close-in-time decisions need direct confirmation.

A transfer from Hartford CC to another DOC prison, the secure UConn Health ward, federal custody, or ICE custody is not a community release. CT DOC also excludes people held for ICE from its public inmate database, so a disappearance from the state search may require a separate federal or immigration check.

Note: A changed date or missing location needs agency confirmation because recalculation, transfer, and public-system delay can look alike online.

Confirm Hartford County Actual Release

Use the displayed date as a lead, then confirm it through the source that owns the record. CT DOC Public Information accepts further inmate-information inquiries at (860) 692-7780 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Written mail goes to the Connecticut Department of Correction, Public Information Office, 24 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109.

If an existing release, discharge, transfer, or movement record is needed, the CT DOC FOI Office is the formal route. A useful request includes the full name, date of birth, DOC number, facility, date range, and exact date fields sought. The FOI office is at the same Wolcott Hill Road address and lists (860) 692-6290.

For notification of a future custody change, register through Connecticut VINE while the person is in custody. The Hartford County VINELink check explains that alert route. VINE is not a certified date record, so compare the alert with DOC status and the court disposition.

Federal dates require the BOP inmate locator and federal court record, not CT DOC. BOP warns that First Step Act recalculations may affect displayed release dates. USMS is the relevant custody authority before delivery to BOP after conviction, while DHS VINE covers ICE custody notifications.