Pueblo County Sheriff's Office

Our goal in the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office Detention Bureau is to maintain a safe, clean and secure environment for those incarcerated as well as for our staff. We provide opportunities such as education, substance abuse and anger management and many other programs aimed at developing skills needed to be successful when the inmate returns to their community.

The Detention Bureau is comprised of two Divisions, Security and Operations. Security is responsible for housing, managing jail population and the supervision of inmates. Security is also responsible for The CID (Criminal Investigations Division) unit. Operations responsibilities include: Intake, Property, Classification, Court Security, Transportation, Work Release, Food and Medical services.

The Pueblo County Detention Bureau was opened and dedicated in 1980, built for 189 inmates. A need for more beds initiated double bunking in 1993. In 2006, a much needed expansion to the existing jail was opened and houses inmates in a dormitory direct supervision housing unit. This unit was built to house an additional 320 inmates. In 2007 Sheriff Taylor was given authority by the Pueblo County Commissioners to spend 1.2 million dollars in security up grades to include: security doors, cameras, control room renovations and video visitation. The Work Release Program is housed off-sight at The CMHIP alleviating overcrowding. These upgrades were needed to run a more safe and secure facility for our community.

At present we are able to house 780 inmates. Our average daily population in 2008 was 471 in the main facility and 529 including work release. There were 8,940 people booked into the jail in 2008, of those 6,915 were recidivists who had been booked into the Jail before 2008. The majority of the population is pre-sentenced felons, as a policy is in effect which the jail only accepts new arrests for felony crimes, those suspected of DUI, Domestic Violence and other charges involving violence and the safety of a person.

We have many systems involved managing the jail population from reaching out to community partners such as the Public Defenders, District Attorney’s, Spanish Peaks Mental Health Program, Parole and Probation to working on reentry projects, such as TAC (Treatment Alternatives Collaboration). We will continue to strive to be better. New technology will help us do our jobs more effectively and Accreditation will give our community the insight to know we are maintaining a national standard of excellence.