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CSP is located in Fremont County, just east of the county seat Cañon City, Colorado.It is one of 25 prisons in the Colorado Department of Corrections system, and one of seven in and around Cañon City.
Centennial Correctional Facility (CCF) is a prison located in the East Canon complex [1] in Fremont County, just east of Cañon City, Colorado. CCF consists of two separate buildings, North and South. [2] The South facility, opened in 2011, is a Level V maximum security facility.
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (CTCF), colloquially known simply as "Territorial," is a medium security prison in Cañon City, Colorado. CTCF is the oldest prison in the Colorado DOC system. It was built in 1871 as a territorial prison and became a state prison in 1876.
Colorado State Penitentiary (756 inmate capacity) (Cañon City) (Maximum Security facility) Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility (900 inmate capacity) (Cañon City) (Medium security facility) Delta Correctional Center (480 inmate capacity) Denver Reception & Diagnostic Center (542 inmate capacity)
The movie Canon City (1948) depicts the real-life 1947 escape of 12 prisoners from nearby Colorado State Penitentiary. [36] A diner in Cañon City is the setting of the song "Navajo Rug", which was named by the Western Writers of America as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. [37]
The department operates the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City. [16] In addition several correctional facilities near Cañon City are located in unincorporated areas in the county. Colorado State Penitentiary, the location of the state death row and execution chamber, [17] is in Fremont County. [18]
Fremont Correctional Facility (FCF) is a state prison located in the East Canon prison complex in Fremont County, just east of Canon City, Colorado. FCF offers treatment programs for special inmate populations such as sex offenders and drug abusers. Approximately 85% of the inmates housed at FCF have been convicted of sexual offenses.
Theodore Coneys died on May 16, 1967, at the Colorado State Penitentiary prison hospital. [2] He was interred at Mountain Vale Cemetery in Cañon City. [7] The case was referenced in Erle Stanley Gardner's 1956 Cool and Lam novel "Beware the Curves".