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Douglas County Detention Center Overview

Douglas County Detention Center is operated by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. DCSO also refers to the custody operation as the Detention Division or Douglas County Jail. The facility sits at the Justice Center campus in Castle Rock, where arrested people are brought for booking, intake, housing, bond processing, and court-related custody.

The facility holds arrestees booked into the county jail, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, inmates waiting for bond or court, people waiting for transport, and work-release participants when approved by the court and DCSO. Research also located a U.S. Marshals Service agreement allowing Douglas County to house adult federal detainees for safekeeping and subsistence. That agreement does not make the jail a federal prison, but it explains why a federal hold may appear in local custody.

Douglas County Detention Center Population

Official rated bed capacity was not located in the inspected DCSO or county sources, so no bed-capacity figure is used. The strongest local data is annual operating and PREA reporting. The 2024 Douglas County ACFR excerpt lists jail average daily population of 364 and 6,176 bookings. The DCSO 2023 PREA report lists average length of stay of 23 days, plus male and female booking shares.

DCSO says a Detentions Demographics Dashboard provides a daily 7:00 a.m. jail count and categories such as gender, race, and citizenship. The research could not extract live dashboard values, so the annual figures above are the sourced numbers used for this facility page.

Look Up Douglas County Detention Center Inmates

Use the Douglas County Inmate Inquiry for current county-jail custody. The portal search fields shown in official snippets include Name, Subject Number, Booking Number, In Custody, Booking From Date, Booking To Date, and Housing Facility. Because the official portal was blocked during research, phone and records-request fallbacks are important for this facility.

1. Start at the DCSO inmate hub and open Inmate Inquiry.
2. Search by name, then narrow with booking number, subject number, or booking dates if known.
3. Use In Custody and Housing Facility filters if the portal displays them.
4. Call Detention or Booking when the roster does not show a clear result.
5. Use a DCSO inmate-records request for booking, charging, housing, or probable-cause records not shown online.

Sentenced state prisoners should be searched through the Colorado.gov Find an Inmate / CDOC locator after transfer. Federal sentenced inmates use BOP. ICE detainees use ICE ODLS.

Douglas County Detention Center Contact

Call the correct DCSO line for the question. Detention handles jail custody questions. Booking handles booking and bond-adjacent questions. The DCSO main non-emergency phone tree includes Detentions and Records options. Records requests for jail documents use the Records Division contact from the inmate-records page.

Booking at Douglas County Detention Center

DCSO says arrestees are brought to the jail at 4000 Justice Way, where deputies conduct the booking process. Staff interview the arrestee, complete arrest paperwork, take a booking photograph, take fingerprints, and collect a DNA sample with a mouth swab. DCSO warns booking can take several hours.

During booking, arrestees are allowed a limited number of free calls to attorneys, family, friends, and bondsmen. After booking, an inmate may post bond if eligible or be moved to housing to remain through the court process. If a judge does not allow bond, DCSO states the inmate is seen by a judge or magistrate the following day. DCSO will not release transport details when another agency is involved.

The DCSO booking and intake page is the official source for what happens when a person is brought to Douglas County Detention Center.

Those intake steps explain why booking cards, booking reports, photos, fingerprints, and related jail records may exist even when they are not all visible in the public roster.

Visit Douglas County Detention Center

Douglas County Detention Center uses video visitation through JailATM. On-site video visitation must be prescheduled and occurs in the Detention Lobby's Video Visitation Center. DCSO says unscheduled walk-in on-site visitation is unavailable. Public users must register with JailATM, upload required ID and a recent photo, and follow clothing and conduct rules.

All non-legal phone and video calls are monitored, recorded, and considered public record. DCSO also warns that recordings may be requested and used as evidence in proceedings.

Mail, Phone, and Money

DCSO uses ICSolutions for phone services, JailATM for video visitation and messaging, Access Corrections for deposits, and Keefe for commissary. Each inmate receives two free 15-minute domestic-only calls per week through ICS; unused calls do not carry over. Domestic calls cost $0.07 per minute, excluding taxes.

The personal mail Global ID is a six- or seven-digit number and is not the booking number. Money orders and legal mail use the booking number and the jail's street address, while personal mail uses the Jonesboro P.O. Box.

Douglas County Jail Fees

The DCSO fee schedule includes jail and service charges, deposit service fees, and medical copays. DCSO's bond page also states that under HB 25-1015, booking fees, bond fees, and other debts do not need to be paid to secure release on a money bond. The bond amount itself is what must be paid to secure release when the person is eligible.

Douglas County Detention Programs

DCSO describes jail programs that support education, treatment, reentry, and daily facility operations. Programs include legal resource access, Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, GED preparation, worship, library access, Thinking for a Change, recreation, pod worker roles, and inmate-worker opportunities. DCSO also reports Jail Based Behavioral Services and Jail Medicated Assisted Treatment.

Work release is a court and DCSO approved alternative sentencing placement. DCSO lists requirements such as court approval, no outstanding warrants, acceptable criminal history, verifiable employment, acceptable jail behavior, rule compliance, and a sentence minimum of 15 days. Work release fees range from $25 to $88 per day depending on annual gross income, with a one-time GPS activation fee of $75. DCSO says there is no current weekender program.