High Desert State Prison Releases

Releases from High Desert State Prison

High Desert State Prison is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facility in Susanville. It is physically in Lassen County, but it is not operated by the Lassen County Sheriff's Office and its releases are not posted as county jail releases. A person released from HDSP may be discharged, paroled, transferred to another agency, moved to a different CDCR facility, held on a detainer, or released under a court or case-record action. The correct question is not whether the person left the Lassen County Jail; it is what CDCR record, parole record, or court commitment record shows about the prison sentence.

For a current HDSP prisoner, CDCR's CIRIS search may show name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment county, admission date, and Board of Parole Hearing dates or outcomes for eligible incarcerated persons. A current location of HDSP means the person is still in CDCR custody. If the person has left HDSP, the public search, CDCR case records, DAPO parole information, BPH hearing results, or the sentencing court may be needed to understand whether the event was parole, discharge, transfer, resentencing, detainer release, or another custody change.

Lassen County readers often confuse the facility location with the commitment county. A person housed at HDSP may have been committed by a court in a different county and may return to a different approved county at release. The physical prison address in Susanville does not make the person a Lassen County jail inmate, and Lassen CitizenRIMS does not verify the release unless the person also had a separate local jail booking.

How to Confirm an HDSP Release

Use state-prison sources first. The fastest identifier is a CDCR number. Names can collide, and a prison record may involve a commitment county, parole county, or county of last legal residence that differs from Lassen County.

1. Search CDCR CIRIS at ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov by CDCR number if available, or by name with age or other known details.
2. Read current location carefully. HDSP as a location means current CDCR custody; no current location may require more follow-up before calling it a release.
3. Review commitment county and admission information so the record is not mistaken for a local Lassen County jail case.
4. Check BPH hearing schedules, results, and eligibility labels if the person has an indeterminate, youth offender, elderly parole, nonviolent parole, or other BPH-covered sentence.
5. Use DAPO information for adult state parole, especially when the person is released to supervision rather than fully discharged.
6. Contact CDCR's Identification Unit at 916-445-6713, Monday through Friday except holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific, when help is needed accessing or interpreting CIRIS information.
7. For a formal release, discharge, sentencing, or facility-assignment record, use CDCR public records or the sentencing court record rather than the Lassen County jail roster.

CDCR release processing can include case-record review, warrant checks, detainer checks, legal-document review, and coordination with local agencies. That is why a projected or eligible date is not always the same as the actual release event. A BPH Grant is also not instantly final; BPH explains that a grant is subject to legal and Governor review before finality.

High Desert State Prison Records and Contact

HDSP's facility page is the facility contact source, but the release-record route is statewide. For location and facility questions, use HDSP. For statewide search help, use CIRIS and CDCR's Identification Unit. For formal public records, use CDCR's public records process. For parole suitability records, use the Board of Parole Hearings public records and correspondence paths.

The Board of Parole Hearings can matter when the sentence is hearing-eligible. BPH lists a correspondence address of P.O. Box 4036, Sacramento, CA 95812-4036, telephone 916-445-4072, correspondence email BPH.CorrespondenceUnit@cdcr.ca.gov, and public-records email m_BPHPRARequests@cdcr.ca.gov. Those are parole-hearing paths, not a general county jail release counter.

About High Desert State Prison

CDCR identifies High Desert State Prison as a state prison in Susanville with programs, facility operations, history, and reentry hub participation. The important release distinction is the population: HDSP holds state prisoners under CDCR authority. That means the release record may use CDCR terms such as admission date, facility assignment, parole eligible date, release action, discharge, parole, or transfer. It is separate from the booking number and local release reason used by the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility.

HDSP Release Date Labels

California's release-date vocabulary is specific. BPH defines EPRD as the earliest possible release date for determinate sentences after sentence and credits. MEPD is the minimum eligible parole date for lifers. NPED, YPED, and EPED are nonviolent, youth, and elderly parole eligibility labels. The controlling parole eligible date is the earliest applicable opportunity. These labels are not interchangeable. A parole-eligible date means eligibility or hearing timing, not automatic release from HDSP.

CDCR credit rules also change. CDCR's current good-conduct credit explanation describes general 33.3 percent credit earning for violent offenses and 50 percent for nonviolent offenses, with special categories. Penal Code section 2933.1 remains relevant for violent-felony credit limits. Because calculation depends on the sentence, credits, case-record review, detainers, and current law, a public page should not promise a release date from a formula. Confirm the date with CDCR records, the court, and BPH or parole information when applicable.

HDSP vs Lassen County Jail

Use Lassen CitizenRIMS only for a separate county jail booking. For example, if a person housed at HDSP was booked locally on a new Lassen County charge, a warrant, a probation issue, or an agency handoff, the jail record may document that local custody event. But it will not replace CDCR's state-prison release record. Conversely, a CDCR release from HDSP does not prove that a person has no county warrant, federal detainer, immigration custody issue, or parole supervision condition.

For a complete released-person picture, pair the systems by custody type: CIRIS and CDCR records for state prison, DAPO for state parole, BPH for hearings and results, Lassen Superior Court for local criminal case outcomes, BOP for federal custody, ICE ODLS for immigration detention, and the Lassen County jail only for local bookings. That separation prevents the most common error in Lassen County release searches: treating every person housed inside county borders as a county jail inmate.