Coffee Creek Release Paths
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, commonly called CCCF, is operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections. It is not a county jail. The complex includes Oregon’s prison for women across custody levels and the statewide intake function for men and women entering DOC. That dual role makes the word “release” easy to misread. A person can leave the Coffee Creek Intake Center while remaining in DOC custody at a different institution.
DOC says intake and assessment takes about 30 days. Most men move from Coffee Creek to an assigned long-term institution after classification. Women complete intake and generally remain at Coffee Creek because it houses Oregon’s women in custody. Neither move is a community release. The state offender record should show the receiving location when the movement has posted.
A completed prison term can lead from Coffee Creek to county community corrections under post-prison supervision, to parole where Board authority applies, to short-term transitional leave, or to discharge. A detainer may instead require DOC to deliver the person to another jurisdiction. A detainer is a formal request or hold from another authority. That handoff ends confinement at Coffee Creek, but it does not establish that the person entered the community.
| Coffee Creek movement | Custody meaning | Confirmation route |
|---|---|---|
| Intake transfer | Still confined by Oregon DOC | Oregon offender facility record |
| Community supervision | Out of prison, sentence supervision continues | VISOR and county community corrections |
| Transitional leave | DOC-authorized prerelease status | DOC record with the exact status |
| Detainer handoff | Another authority takes custody | DOC release record and receiving agency |
| Discharge | The stated DOC custody or sentence phase has ended | DOC record, Pen Pack, or Board order |
Confirm Coffee Creek Release Status
Start with the Oregon Offender Search and Oregon VISOR. A full or partial name, state identification number, or county ID may be used where the portal supports it. A known SID is best because names can match. Open the individual result and preserve the agency, status, facility or supervising entity, and each date exactly as labeled.
The search sequence should test both confinement and the state that follows it:
- Search by SID when known. Otherwise use the person’s name and compare public identifiers carefully.
- Read the current agency and facility. Another DOC institution means transfer, not release.
- Distinguish “Projected Release Date” from an actual past release. A projected date is a forecast for a current sentence and may change.
- Read “under supervision” as release from prison with legal supervision still active. Do not call that current incarceration or full discharge.
- For a completed event, request the DOC release record or Pen Pack. Add a Board order when the Board governed the release.
VISOR can help track a specific person and can send custody-change notices. Its public statement covers people currently in custody or under supervision. A person who completed both custody and supervision may not appear. The historical fallback is the DOC record, a Board Action when relevant, and the court judgment. Broader source selection is explained in the Clackamas County released inmate search.
Note: A projected date, a prison transfer, and a physical release are three distinct state-corrections events.
Coffee Creek Release Contacts
Coffee Creek has a general facility line and a separate intake contact. The intake number fits classification and reception questions. The main line fits facility routing. Neither substitutes for a written release record. DOC central records is the better route for a former prisoner, a completed sentence, a release transaction, or a record that no longer appears in the public locator.
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF), including Coffee Creek Intake Center24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road
Wilsonville, OR 97070
Main facility: 503-570-6400
Intake questions: 503-570-2259
The Oregon DOC public-record request process uses its online request route or mail to ODOC Public Records in Salem. A focused request should identify the person and SID if known, then ask for the physical release date, release status, receiving authority, sentence expiration, supervision dates, and any public discharge material. Request certification if it is needed.
A DOC Pen Pack can include public-information prints, face sheets, a photograph, judgments, and any parole-discharge, revocation, or structured-sanction material in the file. Former Offender Records may be reached at 503-570-6919. DOC publishes staff-time rates and may add media or postage costs, so a narrow description helps the agency locate the right pages.
About Coffee Creek Custody
Coffee Creek’s intake role is statewide. It receives new DOC commitments for assessment, sentence review, health screening, risk and needs work, and assignment. Research identifies the assessment period as roughly 30 days. The next institution is based on DOC classification and placement, so a short stay at Coffee Creek is not evidence of a short sentence or early release.
Women may remain at CCCF after intake because the institution is Oregon’s women’s prison. Men usually move to a different institution. Search results should be checked again after a transfer has had time to post, but repeated missing searches are not proof. If the exact movement matters, request the state record rather than guessing from a blank screen.
Coffee Creek Release Dates
Oregon uses the label Projected Release Date, or PRD, for a current DOC sentence calculation. It is not a guarantee. The calculation can reflect the judgment, sentence start, qualifying presentence credit, concurrent or consecutive terms, earned-time eligibility, credit loss or restoration, court amendments, program or law changes, and holds. A later recalculation may change what appears in Oregon Offender Search.
Physical release date means the actual departure from prison custody. Parole release date applies only where the Board sets it and may not match the physical date. Sentence expiration and post-prison-supervision expiration can occur later still. The Board’s sample Order of Supervision displays those fields separately. Preserve that distinction when asking whether someone has left Coffee Creek or completed the full sentence.
- Projected Release Date
- A current forecast that may change before departure.
- Physical release
- The event when prison confinement ends.
- Post-prison supervision
- Community supervision that follows many determinate prison terms.
- Discharge
- The end of the custody or supervision phase named in the record.
Coffee Creek Detainer Releases
Before release, a DOC counselor verifies the projected date, checks holds and detainers, coordinates the destination, and works on the community-corrections plan. DOC Victim Services explains that a detainer may require release to another jurisdiction rather than to Community Corrections. The state record may therefore show release from Coffee Creek on a day when confinement continues elsewhere.
The receiving agency determines the next search. Another Oregon institution stays within the Oregon offender system. County custody requires that county’s records. Federal prison uses the Bureau of Prisons locator, while immigration custody uses the ICE locator. A federal pretrial handoff under the U.S. Marshals Service may require the federal docket and the actual detention site because USMS has no public locator like BOP.
Note: Ask DOC to identify a public receiving authority when the release record uses transfer or detainer language.
Coffee Creek Community Release
A person released from Coffee Creek to Clackamas County may report to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office Parole & Probation Division. Daily supervision is local even though Oregon DOC managed the prison term and the Oregon Board sets conditions within its authority. Probation, parole, and post-prison supervision are different. Probation is generally ordered by a court. Parole applies to the narrower set of Board-controlled release cases. Post-prison supervision commonly follows a determinate prison sentence.
Begin with the state result. If it identifies community supervision or Clackamas as the supervising county, contact the local office for the proper verification or reporting route. The office does not publish a general person-by-person name search. Disclosure can be limited. An Order of Supervision is often more useful because it can show physical release, sentence expiration, office or caseload, and the supervision end date.
Coffee Creek Discharge Records
A fully discharged person may fall outside VISOR’s stated population of people currently in custody or under supervision. That is a scope limit, not proof that the person was never at Coffee Creek. Use a DOC public-record request and identify the sentence, SID, and date range. The court judgment supplies the legal sentence, while DOC records show computation and physical movement.
Board-governed cases may also require a written Board Action or Order of Supervision. The Board records-request page is the official fallback because no public searchable Board-decisions database was found. Request the actual order instead of reducing a complex outcome to granted or denied. The physical release date, parole date, and sentence expiration may all differ.