The Detention Center
Alamosa County Jail
- Operated byAlamosa County Sheriff's Department
- Jail contact719-589-6608 (call to check whether someone is in custody — no online roster found)
- CommissaryMoney may be deposited via the Inmate Canteen
- Beds / year built / costNot found — no facility statistics published
Source: Alamosa County, CO — County Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert Jackson
- Runs the jailYes — "The Sheriff's Department operates the county jail"
- How the office is filledElected sheriff, per Colorado's standard county sheriff model
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Alamosa County, CO — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado's District Court and County Court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. They are initially appointed by the Governor through a judicial nominating commission and subsequently face retention elections.
12th Judicial District (Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache Counties) — Chief Judge
- Amanda C. Hopkins
12th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Kim Cortez-Rodriguez
- Michael A. Gonzales (also Water Judge)
- Crista Newmyer-Olsen
12th Judicial District — County Court Judges
- Jason Kelly
- Daniel Walzl
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's own jail page publishes Colorado's statutory bond-fee limits ($10 bond fee, maximum 3.5% credit-card fee, per section 16-4-102 C.R.S.), which is bond guidance rather than phone/video/commissary rate information.
- The county also maintains a 'Digital Budget Book' on ClearGov (county-alamosa-co-budget-book.cleargov.com), but its content is loaded dynamically and a detention-specific line item could not be confirmed through a direct fetch.
- Alamosa County Board of County Commissioners — three districts: Lori Laske (D1), Arlan Van Ry (D2), Vern Heersink (D3).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Alamosa County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered