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The Colorado Department of Corrections is the principal department of the Colorado state government [2] that operates the state prisons. It has its headquarters in the Springs Office Park in unincorporated El Paso County , Colorado , near Colorado Springs .
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 ...
A conjugal visit is a scheduled period in which an inmate of a prison or jail is permitted to spend several hours or days in private with a visitor. The visitor is usually their legal partner. The visitor is usually their legal partner.
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. The Colorado DOC system only has two infirmaries, one of which is located in CTCF. The other is located in the Denver Reception & Diagnostic Center (DRDC). [citation needed]
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.
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]
Dean Williams, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, took the job in 2019 with a goal of reducing the state’s recidivism rate, among the highest in the country at nearly ...
The Youthful Offender System (YOS) is a medium security prison in Pueblo, Colorado. [1] YOS houses male and female offenders between ages 14–19. [2] Inmates at YOS have all been convicted of a violent felony, except Class 1 felonies, and sentenced as adults through the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) system.