The Detention Center
Fremont County Detention Center
- Operated byFremont County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address100 Justice Center Road, Canon City, CO 81212
- Beds240
- Accepts arrestees forAll local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in Fremont County
Source: Fremont County Sheriff's Office — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- Beds240
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Allen Cooper
- Runs the jailYes — the Fremont County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) Detentions Division
- How the office is filledElected
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fremont County Sheriff's Office — About Us · 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 11th Judicial District also covers Chaffee, Custer, and Park counties.
11th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Amanda Hunter
11th Judicial District — District Court Judges (Fremont County)
- Lauren Swan
- Kaitlin Turner
11th Judicial District — County Court Judge (Fremont County)
- Alexandra Robak
- 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
- Visitation page publishes NCIC calling rates: $0.16/min for all U.S. calls, $0.25/min Mexico and Canada, $0.35/min other international; video visits $0.30/min; messages $0.25 each; picture/video messages $0.35 each.
- FCSO publishes 'Accountability Reports' for 2019, 2020, and 2021 as PDFs, but no more recent report was found, and PDF contents (which may include use-of-force or other statistics) were not opened/verified, so they are not cited for budget/PREA/deaths.
- Bonding-information page states inmates may be 'held as a courtesy to another county,' indicating inter-county holding arrangements, but no rate schedule is published.
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners: Kevin Grantham (District 1), Debbie Bell (District 2), Dwayne McFall (District 3). No dedicated jail tax was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fremont 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