Lassen Projected Release Date
A projected release date is a calculated date, not a promise that the person will walk out on that day. Lassen County jail release can turn on bail, own-recognizance release, citation release, sentence completion, court orders, warrants, holds, or transfer to another agency. A person who has not been sentenced may have no computed date at all.
Scheduled release is a planning label. Actual release is the final custody event recorded by the jail, court, CDCR, or BOP.
For local jail custody, CitizenRIMS is useful for current custody and recent booking context, but the research did not find a public projected-release-date field. For state prison custody, CDCR and BPH use specific labels. For federal custody at FCI Herlong, BOP may show a release date, but federal sentence review and First Step Act credits can change it.
The same person can also move between systems. A county jail release may be a transfer to CDCR, BOP, ICE, or another agency. That is not the same as release to the community. In Lassen County, the jail receives bookings from local, state, and federal-linked agencies, so the release-date lookup should always ask where the person is going next.
Lassen County Release Lookup
The first step is to identify which system holds the person. Lassen County has the sheriff's Adult Detention Facility, High Desert State Prison, the deactivated California Correctional Center for historical CDCR records, and FCI Herlong for federal custody. Each system has a different release-date source.
- Check the Lassen CitizenRIMS incarcerated-people page to see whether a county jail detainee is still listed.
- Call the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility at 530-251-5245 when a local jail release time must be confirmed.
- Use the Lassen Superior Court portal for bail, own-recognizance release, sentence, warrant, and probation orders.
- Search CDCR CIRIS for a sentenced state prisoner or parole/discharge context.
- Use the BOP Inmate Locator for FCI Herlong and other federal prisoners.
- Register for custody-change notices on Lassen County VINE when a tracked person is still eligible for alerts.
For a named person who has already left the jail roster, the broader Lassen County released inmates search path is covered through sheriff, court, CDCR, VINE, and federal records on the main lookup page.
If the person is still in the pretrial stage, focus on the court. The criminal division materials explain that bail, own-recognizance release, arraignment, warrants, and later sentencing can control custody. A pretrial detainee is not serving a fixed jail term, so there may be no projected release date to calculate until a judge issues an order or the person posts bail.
CDCR Release Date Labels
CDCR and the Board of Parole Hearings do not use one simple public label for every person. BPH defines EPRD as an earliest possible release date for many determinate sentences after sentence and credits. MEPD is a minimum eligible parole date for lifers. NPED, YPED, and EPED refer to nonviolent, youth, and elderly parole eligibility paths. A controlling parole eligible date is the earliest applicable parole or release opportunity.
Those labels are shown in this BPH eligibility source: BPH parole eligibility definitions.
Use the state label as written. A parole-eligible date is not the same as an automatic release from High Desert State Prison or any other CDCR facility.
High Desert State Prison makes this distinction especially important in Lassen County. A person released from HDSP is not a Lassen County jail release just because the facility is located in the county. The lookup belongs in CDCR and BPH records. California Correctional Center is different again because CDCR says it was deactivated on June 30, 2023, so current release checks should not treat CCC as an active prison.
Lassen County Good-Time Rules
Local jail credits and CDCR credits are separate. Penal Code section 4019 governs many California local custody conduct and work credits, including county jail categories. The jail and court apply credits to the actual sentence and custody record. A rough public formula can miss exclusions, behavior, holds, amended judgments, or other credit rules.
CDCR good-conduct rules have changed over time. CDCR's current explanation says the streamlined credit system generally uses 33.3 percent for people convicted of violent offenses and 50 percent for nonviolent offenses, with special fire-camp and minimum-custody categories. Penal Code section 2933.1 remains important for violent-felony credit limits. CDCR case records staff calculate the state-prison date.
CDCR's credit-earning framework is captured from its official Proposition 57 page: CDCR credit-earning opportunities.
The credit rules explain why release-date lookup results should be checked against the agency that holds the sentence record.
Note: County jail staff and the court calculate local custody credits; CDCR calculates CDCR release dates.
Do not use the CDCR percentage rules as a county-jail calculator. Penal Code section 4019 is the local-custody anchor, but the calculation still turns on the sentence, actual days served, conduct, exclusions, and the court's order. If the court imposes probation with jail time, mandatory supervision, or PRCS-related terms, supervision records can become part of the post-release picture even after the jail term ends.
Why Lassen Dates Change
Research for Lassen County identified three release-date calculation tracks: county jail, CDCR state prison, and BOP federal custody. All three can shift after a public date is seen. A changed date does not always mean an error. It can mean the sentence record changed, a hold was added, credits were lost or restored, or another agency took custody.
| Factor | How it changes a release date |
|---|---|
| Good-time or conduct credits | Credits may be earned, forfeited, restored, or recalculated from the custody record. |
| Amended court documents | New abstracts, sentence corrections, or court orders can change the calculation. |
| Detainers and warrants | A person may leave one custody system but transfer to another agency instead of the community. |
| BPH review | A parole grant is subject to Legal Division and Governor review before it becomes final. |
| BOP recalculation | Federal dates may change through sentence review or First Step Act credit processing. |
Lassen Court Release Orders
Lassen Superior Court is often the durable record source after the jail roster no longer shows a person. The court portal covers non-confidential and non-sealed cases filed after 1994 and calendars, but the court warns that online information is for reference and is not the official court record. Certified copies or file review come through court records.
For a county jail detainee, the court can explain why no projected release date exists. Bail, own-recognizance release, arraignment, sentence terms, probation orders, warrants, and dismissal entries are court events. A court order can move the person out of jail before any sentence-credit calculation matters. Court copies cost 50 cents per page, and many in-person copy requests may take up to 10 court days.
The court can also explain why a date did not lead to release. A bench warrant, new case, probation violation, or hold can keep a person in custody or move the person to another agency. If the online portal only provides reference information, request the court file or certified copy through the Hall of Justice records process when the date must be documented.
Lassen Federal Release Dates
FCI Herlong gives Lassen County a federal release-date path that many counties do not have. A person in federal custody should be checked through the BOP Inmate Locator by name or register number. BOP states that the locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present. A result that says Released or Not in BOP Custody means the person is no longer in BOP custody, but it does not rule out another agency or supervision.
Federal pretrial custody can also involve the U.S. Marshals Service before a sentenced person reaches BOP. The federal court decides bond or remand, and USMS can house prisoners in federal, state, local, or private facilities. That means a person may be in a local jail on a federal matter before BOP becomes the release-date source.
Federal dates can change for reasons that do not apply to the county jail. BOP warns that sentence reviews and First Step Act credit processing can affect release dates. For a Lassen County search, that makes BOP the controlling source for FCI Herlong while sheriff and court records remain the controlling sources for local jail custody.
Confirm Lassen Release Dates
Use the source that controls the custody record. For the Lassen County Adult Detention Facility, call the jail or request the release record through the sheriff. For CDCR, use CIRIS, CDCR records, DAPO, and BPH material when parole is involved. For BOP, use the federal locator. VINE can alert to custody changes, but it is not the final release-date calculator.
A formal records request may be needed after release because a person can drop from the public jail page. The sheriff contact path should identify the person, approximate booking date, booking number if known, arresting agency, and the specific record sought. The useful phrase in California arrest-record law is the time and manner of release, because that is what confirms the final county jail event.
For CDCR matters, call or use the CDCR public records path when CIRIS does not answer the question. CDCR's Identification Unit is listed for public help during weekday business hours, and CDCR records are the better route for state-prison dates, parole status, and discharge questions. For BPH hearing-eligible sentences, check the BPH schedule and results before treating an eligibility date as a release date.
- Projected date
- A computed or scheduled date that may move before release.
- Actual release
- The final custody event shown by the jail, court, CDCR, or BOP record.
- Detainer
- A hold or agency request that can route a person to another custody system.
- Discharge
- The end of a custody or supervision term when the agency record says it is complete.