The Detention Center
Chaffee County Detention Center (CCDC)
- Operated byChaffee County Sheriff's Office
- BedsUp to 105 inmates across seven housing units
- Year built2003
- Staffing27 detention personnel: Commander, Lieutenant, Sergeant, four Corporals, Transport Coordinator, fourteen deputies, two kitchen staff
- Medical providerTurn Key Health (contracted)
- Population servedLocal offenders plus out-of-county and DOC-bound inmates awaiting transfer to the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center
Source: Chaffee County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 built2003
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds105 (seven housing units)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Andy Rohrich
- Runs the jailYes — Chaffee County Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected
- UndersheriffAlex Walker IV
- Office address641 W 3rd Street, Salida, CO 81201
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Chaffee County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are initially appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections; they are state judicial officers, not county officials. The 11th Judicial District also covers Custer, Park, and Fremont counties.
11th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Amanda Hunter
Chaffee County Court — County Court Judge
- Diana C. Bull
11th Judicial District — Magistrate
- Joanne Morando
- 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 2026 Chaffee County Budget PDF contains a 'COUNTY DETENTIONS/JAIL' fund with a total of $3,601,200 budgeted (2026), and a 'COP Payment - Jail' certificate-of-participation debt line of $569,000.
- The jail page describes housing 'inmates for several out-of-county facilities' and DOC-bound transfers, but does not name the specific contracting agencies or publish per diem rates, so 'contracts' is marked no.
- No public inmate roster, PREA audit result, or independent inspection result was found on the county's site.
- Board of County Commissioners — Gina Lucrezi (District 1), David Armstrong (District 2), P.T. Wood (District 3)
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Chaffee 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