The Detention Center
El Paso County Criminal Justice Center (El Paso County Jail)
- Operated byEl Paso County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2739 East Las Vegas St., Colorado Springs, CO 80906
- Beds / year builtNot found on EPSO site
Source: El Paso County Sheriff's Office — Inmate Services · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 Joseph Roybal
- Runs the jailYes — the El Paso County Sheriff's Office (EPSO) Detention Operations Division
- How the office is filledElected (29th Sheriff of El Paso County)
- UndersheriffJeff Kramer
- Bureau Chief over DetentionsChief Andrew Prehm
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: El Paso County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff's Office · 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 4th Judicial District covers El Paso and Teller counties and has a large bench; the source page lists the full roster.
4th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Erin Sokol
4th Judicial District — District Court Judges (El Paso County, partial list)
- William Bain
- Eric Bentley
- Lin Billings Vela
- Jill Brady
- Robin Chittum
- Amy Cullen Cano
- Jessica Curtis
4th Judicial District — County Court Judges (El Paso County, partial list)
- Charlotte Ankeny
- Douglas Bechtel
- Samorreyan Burney
- Yolanda Fennick
- Marika Frady
- Shannon Gerhart
- 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
- EPSO publishes 2023 and 2024 Annual Reports (https://epcsheriffsoffice.com/about-us/sheriffs-office/annual-report/), but the underlying document links could not be resolved from the static page, so budget/PREA/capacity content in them was not verified and is not cited.
- Bonding/booking fee amounts are published ($10 bond fee, $30 booking fee) but no phone, video-visit, or commissary rate schedule was found published.
- Colorado Jail Standards Commission mandatory standards took effect July 1, 2026; no published result for El Paso County was found (expected, mandate is new).
- Five-member Board of County Commissioners, elected from geographic districts: Holly Williams (District 1), Carrie Geitner, Chair (District 2), Bill Wysong (District 3), Cory Applegate (District 4), Lauren Nelson, Vice Chair (District 5). No dedicated jail tax was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in El Paso 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