The Detention Center
Delta County Detention Facility
- Operated byDelta County Sheriff's Office
- Annual budgetOver $1.5 million, covering salaries of 18 Detention Deputies, 3 Court Security Deputies, 3 culinary staff, medical services, food, and operating costs for two facilities
- Booking fee$20.00 per booking
- Bond fee$10.00 per individual bond
- Video visitationAvailable via Securus Video Connect
- Jail phone970-874-2021
Source: Delta County, CO — Official Website, Detention Facility page · 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
- ✗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 Mark Taylor
- Runs the jailYes — 'The Sheriff is responsible for the operation of the Delta County Detention Facility (Jail)'
- How the office is filledElected; Colorado county sheriffs are elected except in Denver and Broomfield
- Office address211 W. 6th Street, Delta, CO 81416
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Delta County, CO — Official Website, Sheriff 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. Delta shares its 7th Judicial District district-court bench with Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel counties.
7th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- D. Cory Jackson
7th Judicial District — District Court Judge (Delta County, Division 1)
- Steven L. Schultz
Delta County Court Judge
- Bo A. Zeerip
- 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 Detention Facility page discloses booking ($20) and bond ($10) fees and mentions Securus video visitation, but does not publish specific phone, video, or commissary per-minute/per-item rates, so 'fees' is marked no.
- No public roster, bed capacity/population count, death-in-custody data, PREA audit result, independent inspection result, 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 Delta County was found.
- Board of County Commissioners; meeting agendas and minutes are posted on the county calendar. Individual current commissioner names were not confirmed from the pages retrieved.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Delta 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