The Detention Center
Robert A. Christensen Justice Center (Douglas County Jail)
- Operated byDouglas County Sheriff's Office, Detentions Division
- Jail address4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, CO 80109
- Beds / year builtNot found on DCSO site
- What was triedChecked dcsheriff.net divisions and detentions pages; no bed count or construction year published
Source: DCSO — What to Expect / Divisions · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 byJustice Center Sales & Use Tax (0.43% voter-approved 1995; a portion currently funds Justice Center/jail operations) — see https://dcsheriff.net/sheriffs-office/divisions/office-of-budget-logistics/
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Darren M. Weekly
- Runs the jailYes — the Douglas County Sheriff's Office (DCSO) Detentions Division
- How the office is filledElected
- UndersheriffJason Kennedy
- Division Chief, DetentionsPhil Domenico
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Douglas 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. The 23rd Judicial District (Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln counties) was newly created effective January 14, 2025, split off from the former 18th Judicial District.
23rd Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Ryan J. Stuart
23rd Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Beth Elliott-Dumler
- Andrew Baum
- Shelby Fyles
- Stacy Guillon
- Victoria Klingensmith
- Donna Stewart
- Daniel Warhola
23rd Judicial District — County Court Judges (Douglas County)
- Lawrence Bowling
- Casey Brown
- Kolony Fields
- Kelly Waidler
- 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
- DCSO publishes annual PREA reports for 2015–2025 on its Health, Welfare & Safety of Inmates page.
- Communicating-with-an-inmate page publishes current phone rates ($0.07/min domestic) and video call rates ($0.12/min, up to 20 min/session).
- Colorado Jail Standards Commission mandatory standards took effect July 1, 2026; no published result for Douglas County was found as of this research (expected, since the mandate is new).
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners, elected at large from three geographic districts to staggered four-year terms (two-term limit): Abe Laydon (District I), George Teal (District II), Kevin Van Winkle (District III). A Justice Center Sales & Use Tax (0.43% approved by voters in 1995; a remaining 0.10% portion) helps fund Justice Center operations, including the jail.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Douglas 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