The Detention Center
Garfield County Detention Facility (Garfield County Jail)
- Operated byGarfield County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address107 8th Street, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
- OpenedDecember 2001
- CapacityUp to 193 inmates
- HousingNine housing units, including three direct-supervision pods
- Medical careContracted with CorrHealth
Source: Garfield County Sheriff's Office — About the Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2001
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds193
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Lou Vallario
- Runs the jailYes — the Garfield County Sheriff's Office (GCSO) Detentions Division
- How the office is filledElected
- UndersheriffColt Cornelius
- Detentions CommanderKim Vallario
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Garfield County Sheriff's Office — Personnel · 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 9th Judicial District also covers Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties.
9th Judicial District — Chief Judge
- Anne K. Norrdin
9th Judicial District — District Court Judges (Garfield County)
- Alexander Haynes
- Laura C. Makar
- Elise Myer
- Susan Ryan
9th Judicial District — County Court Judges (Garfield County)
- Jonathan B Pototsky
- Angela Roff
- 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
- About the Jail page lists an ADA/PREA Coordinator contact, indicating a PREA compliance program, but no published PREA audit result or annual report was found.
- Inmate-visitation page states internet video visitation is 'fee-based' via gettingout.com but does not publish a specific per-minute rate; no phone or commissary rate schedule was found published.
- The jail houses inmates for the Sheriff's Office and 'all law-enforcement agencies within the County,' but no rate schedule for holding other agencies' prisoners is published.
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners: Tom Jankovsky (District 1), Perry Will (District 2), Mike Samson (District 3). No dedicated jail tax was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Garfield 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