The Detention Center
Grand County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility (mail addressed to "Grand County Jail")
- Operated byGrand County Sheriff's Office, Detentions Division
- Jail addressP.O. Box 48, Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 80451; Sheriff's Office at 670 Spring Street
- Beds50 adult beds
- Bond fees$10 filing fee per bond (cash only) and a $30 booking fee
- PhoneCollect-call phones in cell blocks; $5, $10 or $20 phone cards from the facility commissary
- VisitationOne 30-minute visit per visiting day (Wed/Sat/Sun); reservation required
- What was triedhttps://www.co.grand.co.us/AgendaCenter and https://www.co.grand.co.us/280/County-Transparency were checked for jail inspection, PREA or death-in-custody material; none found
Source: Grand County Sheriff's Office — Detentions · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- Beds50 adult beds
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brett Schroetlin
- Runs the jailYes — the Grand County Sheriff's Office Detentions Division
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office size63 employees across 6 divisions, including Detentions
- Office address670 Spring Street / P.O. Box 48, Hot Sulphur Springs, CO 80451
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grand County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed by the Governor from a list submitted by a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections. District and county court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. The county court judge normally sets bond at first appearance.
14th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Brittany A. Schneider
14th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Billy-George Hertzke (also Water Judge)
- Mary C. Hoak
Grand County Court Judge
- Nicholas Catanzarite
- 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
- capacity: the county publishes 50 adult beds on its Detentions page but does not publish a daily population count.
- budget: Grand County publishes its full 2026 Annual Budget and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (https://www.co.grand.co.us/DocumentCenter/View/29519/2026-Annual-Budget). The Sheriff appears as a budgeted department; a separate detention line item was not visible in the text that could be extracted.
- fees: the Detentions page gives $5/$10/$20 commissary phone-card denominations plus a $10 bond filing fee and $30 booking fee, but no phone per-minute, video-visit or commissary price list, so this is recorded as not published.
- The Colorado Division of Criminal Justice Jail Data Dashboard (https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata) carries quarterly population and death data under CRS 17-26-118, but that is the state publishing, not Grand County, so it does not satisfy the deaths or capacity checks.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members elected at large for four-year staggered terms: Edward Raegner (District 1), Merrit Linke (District 2), Randy George (District 3). The Board meets on the first four Tuesdays of each month and also sits as the County Board of Equalization, Board of Human Services and Board of Health. No dedicated jail or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grand 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