The Detention Center
Crowley County Jail (also called the Crowley County Detention Facility/Detention Center)
- Operated byCrowley County Sheriff's Office
- Address110 E 6th St, Ordway, CO 81063
- Booking fee$30 per booking
- Bond fee$10 per bond
- Phone/video/message ratesVoice calls 20 cents/minute; video calls 41 cents/minute; text messages 10 cents/message, via the Cidnet inmate communications system
- NoteThe Crowley County Correctional Facility, a separate state-contract private prison in the county, is distinct from this county jail and is not covered here
Source: Crowley County Sheriff's Office — Detentions / Inmate Fees and Charges / Inmate Communications · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
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 Terry Reeves
- Runs the jailYes — 'Operating the county jail and ensuring the care of inmates' is listed among the Sheriff's statutory duties
- UndersheriffJonathan Mazzella
- How the office is filledElected; Colorado county sheriffs are elected except in Denver and Broomfield
- Office address110 East 6th Street, Ordway, CO 81063
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Crowley County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff and Command Staff · 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. Crowley shares its 16th Judicial District district-court bench with Otero and Bent counties.
16th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Samuel S. Vigil
16th Judicial District — District Court Judge
- Deni E. Eiring
Crowley County Court Judge
- Jeremy P. Boyce
16th Judicial District — Magistrate
- Rodney D. Fouracre
- 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 site (crowleycountysheriff.com) is unusually transparent for a small county: it publishes detentions policy, inmate rights, bonding rules, itemized booking/bond fees, and phone/video/message rates.
- Crowley County's own financials page publishes county-wide adopted budgets and audits by year, but does not break out a corrections/detention-specific budget line, so 'budget' is marked no despite a URL being available.
- No roster, capacity, death-in-custody, PREA audit, independent inspection, or inmate-holding-contract information was found published on the county's own site.
- Colorado's statewide jail standards under the Colorado Jail Standards Commission became mandatory July 1, 2026; no published result for Crowley County was found.
- Board of County Commissioners: Roy Elliott (District 1), Vicki Powell (District 2), Terry McMillian (District 3). Commissioner work sessions run Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., open to the public.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Crowley 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