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Previously state statute dictated that prisoners with death sentences were to be held at the administrative segregation facility at the Colorado State Penitentiary. [12] In 2011 the State of Colorado moved its death row prisoners in order to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Nathan Dunlap, a death row prisoner.
The Buena Vista Correctional Facility, also known as Buena Vista Correctional Complex, is a state prison for men located in Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The facility opened as an adult prison in 1978, and houses 871 inmates at medium and close security levels, along with ...
The Skyline Correctional Center (also SCC) is a Level 1 minimum security prison facility at Cañon City in the state of Colorado. The Prison was opened in 1957 with 60 beds and houses (as for May 19, 2014) 126 male offenders. Inmates assigned to SCC are within 60 months of their parole eligibility date and in most cases have attended numerous ...
Limon houses some of the state's most dangerous inmates. In 2001, 42-year-old inmate David Alonzo slipped and fell in his cell and died three days later from an infected arm injury. [3] In October 2002, inmate Edward Montour Jr. beat correctional officer Eric Autobee to death in the facility's kitchen. [4]
Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) is located in Sterling, Colorado, and is the largest prison in the Colorado Department of Corrections system. State statute dictated that prisoners with death sentences were to be held at the administrative segregation facility at the Colorado State Penitentiary . [ 1 ]
The Crowley County Correctional Facility is a medium-security, privately owned and operated state prison for men located in Olney Springs, Crowley County, Colorado. CoreCivic runs it under contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was constructed by Dominion Correctional Services of Oklahoma, and opened in 1998.
The Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility is a state prison for men located in Ordway, Crowley County, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The facility opened in 1987 and houses a maximum of 1007 inmates at minimum, medium and high security levels. [1]
The Kit Carson Correctional Center was a privately owned, medium-security state prison for men located in Burlington, Kit Carson County, Colorado, owned and operated by the CoreCivic. The facility housed a maximum capacity of 1488 inmates. [1]