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Colorado county jails and state prisons

Colorado has 64 counties. The sheriff runs the jail where a county has one. Denver’s is a city-and-county jail. A long list of mountain and plains counties do not keep a full lockup. They book into a neighbor and pay for the bed. A published total of 27 jails undercounts the Front Range and misses those contract arrangements. City police departments have holding rooms, not county jails.

Jail rules are new. House Bill 22-1063 set up a jail-standards commission. The legislative oversight committee adopted the standards in 2023, and county jails must comply by July 1, 2026. The Department of Public Safety contracts with the sheriffs’ association for an advisory committee. Peer assessors, not a board of formerly incarcerated members, review policies, walk the building, and interview staff and people in custody. The schedule calls for each jail to be assessed at least every five years.

Jails in Colorado hold people before trial and people serving a misdemeanor. A class 1 misdemeanor tops out at 364 days in county jail, a number set so the sentence stays under the federal one-year mark. A class 2 misdemeanor tops out at 120 days. A felony sentence goes to the Department of Corrections, with prisons at Canon City, Buena Vista, Sterling, Limon, Denver, and elsewhere. A federal sentence goes to the Bureau of Prisons. The Florence complex in Fremont County includes the Administrative Maximum, the highest-security federal prison in the country.

How many county jails are there in Colorado?

There is no statute that fixes the number of open jails. Large counties on the Front Range run one or more buildings. Small counties contract. When a jail takes someone from another county, from DOC for a court date, or from the U.S. Marshals or ICE, it bills a daily rate. That rate is a contract, not a statewide $50 to $150 fee. Growth along Interstate 25 is what fills the newer jails. The old 20-bed jails on the Western Slope fill for a different reason: there is nowhere else within a two-hour drive.

How many juvenile detention centers are there in Colorado?

The Division of Youth Services, inside the Department of Human Services, runs 10 secure youth centers for ages 10 to 21. Detention-only centers are Gilliam in Denver, Prairie Vista in Brighton, Pueblo Youth Services Center, Zebulon Pike in Colorado Springs, and Marvin W. Foote in Englewood. Platte Valley in Greeley, Grand Mesa in Grand Junction, and Mount View in Denver hold both detained and committed youth. Lookout Mountain in Golden and Spring Creek in Colorado Springs are commitment centers. Counties do not run a parallel set of juvenile halls. A judge who orders secure detention sends the youth to one of these state centers, and a hearing is required within 48 hours.

A youth at Gilliam or Foote is usually waiting on court. A youth at Lookout Mountain or Spring Creek has been committed. Both kinds of centers are secure, and both run school on site. Search the county of the arrest to see which youth center that region uses.

What the first days in a Colorado county jail are like

Booking is the same sequence in Denver and in a 40-bed plains jail: identity, prints, a medical screen, a search, property bagged, one call. The person has not been convicted. The pod still runs on counts. Food is plain, the uniform does not fit, and altitude plus a concrete bunk makes the first night worse than newcomers expect. Withdrawal from alcohol or fentanyl can start before the advisement hearing.

Deputies who apply the rules the same way to everyone run a quieter jail. Uneven enforcement is how contraband moves. Front Range jails can separate by risk. A contract jail two counties away often cannot, and the family drive is the extra cost.

Most sheriffs sell tablet time, video visits, and deposits through a vendor. Those accounts can be shut off. Each Colorado jail page on this site lists the phone number, the vendor, and the way to send money for that county.