The Detention Center
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- Operated byConejos County Sheriff's Office
- Jail contact(719) 376-6778, listed separately from the Sheriff's Office administrative line
- What was triedThe Sheriff's page names a 'Jail' phone number but does not give the facility a proper name; no dedicated jail/detention page was found on the county site
Source: Conejos County Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 Garth Crowther
- Runs the jailYes — Conejos County Sheriff's Office lists a separate 'Jail' contact number alongside its own
- UndersheriffBlake Crowther
- How the office is filledElected; Colorado county sheriffs are elected except in Denver and Broomfield
- Office address14044 CO RD G.5, Antonito, CO 81120 (Sheriff's Office); PO Box 37, Conejos, CO 81129
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Conejos County Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections; they are state judicial officers, not county officials. In the 12th Judicial District, one county court judge and set of district judges serve Conejos, Costilla, Alamosa, Mineral, Rio Grande and Saguache counties together.
12th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Amanda C. Hopkins
12th Judicial District — District Court Judges (serving Conejos County)
- Kim Cortez-Rodriguez
- Michael A. Gonzales
- Crista Newmyer-Olsen
Conejos County Court Judge
- Jason T. Kelly
- 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 Sheriff's Office Information Page publishes bonding-out instructions, a policy and procedures manual, and inmate visitation guidelines, but no roster, capacity, budget, death, PREA, inspection, contract, or fee information was found on the county's own site.
- Colorado's statewide jail standards under the Colorado Jail Standards Commission became mandatory July 1, 2026; nothing has been published for Conejos County yet.
- Board of County Commissioners; meets first and third Thursday of each month. Individual commissioner names were not visible in the page content retrieved (site uses dynamic tabs for member bios).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Conejos 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