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10500 East Smith Road
Denver, Colorado
80239
720-913-3600
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County Jail Visiting

Visit reservation requests can be submitted through the visit reservation E-Form, FAX to 720-913-3749 or by dropping off the form at the County Jail Lobby.

Visit confirmation calls are made within 48 hours excluding weekends and holidays, and are only made to those visitors whose visits have been booked. If you do not receive a call confirming your visit, the visit was not booked and you will need to resubmit your request. Visit requests are taken each Tuesday through Monday for the weekend that is one week out only. Requests made for weekends other than the weekend currently being booked will not be saved or processed.

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Click here for more information on visiting and
sending money for inmates in the County Jail.

The Denver County Jail facility at 10500 East Smith Road has been in existence since 1956. Since then, the Denver County Jail has undergone several additions and remodeling projects.

The Denver County Jail is the largest single county jail in the Rocky Mountain region. The daily population of the facility averages over 2100 inmates.  The County Jail Division is responsible for the long term care and custody of prisoners and is the holding facility for convicted felons awaiting transfer to the Colorado Department of Corrections and sentenced misdemeanant prisoners, as well as those prisoners awaiting trial.

Division Chief Ron D. Foos is in charge of the County Jail Division.  The County Jail is an extremely busy and active facility with a variety of programs aimed at enhancing the lives of prisoners while incarcerated.  Some of the programs offered are G.E.D., domestic violence counseling, drug and alcohol counseling as directed by Denver County Court or Denver District Court.  Additional programs include religious counseling, aptitude and vocational testing, career counseling, Project Bed-Time Story (sponsored by The Empowerment Program), Turnabout Program, the Life Skills Program and the Community Reentry Project.  The County Jail also allows the prisoners telephone privileges and family visits (these visits are non-contact conducted via video).

Prisoners have access to health care 24 hours a day under the guidance of the Denver Health Medical Center. The health care provided to the prisoners is accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC).
 
County jail infirmary
County Jail Infirmary
Minimum security dormitory
Maximum security direct supervision
Minimum Security Dormitory
Maximum security
direct supervision building
Maximum security building Maximum security lock-down
Maximum security
building
Administrative segregation
building
The County Jail has varying conditions of confinement ranging from minimum security dormitory housing, maximum security cell blocks to special management "lock-down" areas. Housing within the facility is determined by the Classification unit.

 
      
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