The Detention Center
Jefferson County Detention Facility
- Operated byJefferson County Sheriff's Office, Detention Services Division
- Jail address200 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401
- BedsApproximately 1,300 inmates
- Opened1986, expanded 1999
- Division ChiefGary Gittins, Division Chief, Detention Services Division
- BondBond may be posted 24/7 at the facility; five bond types published (cash, surety, personal recognizance, PR with co-signer, credit card)
- Bond fees$10 filing fee and $30 booking fee; the county states bond and booking fees are never required as a condition of release
- Holds for other agenciesPage notes inmates held for the Colorado Department of Corrections or the U.S. Marshals may be subject to different policies; no contract or rate is published
- VisitationRemote and on-site 30-minute video visits, scheduled at least 24 hours ahead through Securus Video Connect; no rates published
Source: Jefferson County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓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 built1986
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsApproximately 1,300
Since then
- Expanded 1999
The Sheriff
Sheriff Regina "Reggie" Marinelli
- Runs the jailYes — the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Detention Services Division runs the Jefferson County Detention Facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff — one of Jefferson County's ten elected officials
- Took officeSworn in January 10, 2023; the first woman to hold the office in the county
- Central booking roleThe facility is the central detention facility for all law enforcement agencies in Jefferson County, including municipal police departments
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jefferson County — Leadership · 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.
1st Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Jeffrey R. Pilkington
1st Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Jason Carrithers
- Chantel Contiguglia
- Diego G. Hunt
- Adam Kendall
- Russell Klein
- Ryan P. Loewer
- Meegan A. Miloud
- Andrew Poland
- Christopher B. Rhamey
- Tamara S. Russell
- Lindsay VanGilder
- Todd L. Vriesman
- Christopher Zenisek
Jefferson County Court Judges
- Bradley Burback
- Verna L. Carpenter
- Sara Garrido
- Keith Goman
- Corinne Magid
- Jennifer Melton
- Graham Peper
- Mark Randall
- Kristan Wheeler
- 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
- jeffcosheriffco.gov is the Sheriff's Office's own .gov domain, linked from jeffco.us as the Sheriff's official site, so it is treated as the county publishing.
- capacity: approximately 1,300 beds is published on the jail page; a daily population figure is not.
- roster: the Sheriff's Office runs its own inmate lookup, updated every 15 minutes, showing only people currently in custody.
- prea: the Sheriff's Office publishes an inmate handbook containing a PREA zero-tolerance policy statement, but no PREA audit report was found, so the check is no.
- inspections: the Sheriff's Office publishes CALEA accreditation material and Internal Affairs, Annual and Law Enforcement Authority reports at https://www.jeffcosheriffco.gov/about/transparency. CALEA is law-enforcement accreditation, not an independent jail inspection, and no jail inspection result was found.
- fees: booking and bond filing fees are published, but no phone, video-visit or commissary rate schedule. Video visits run through Securus and commissary deposits through TouchPay, neither with rates on the county site.
- contracts: the jail holds people for the Colorado Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals, but no contract document or per-diem rate is published.
- Board of County Commissioners — Rachel Zenzinger (District 1), Andy Kerr (District 2), Lesley Dahlkemper (District 3). Offices at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 5550, Golden, CO 80419. Jefferson County publishes adopted budgets back to 2017 and runs a Financial Transparency Portal in which the Sheriff is a General Fund department. No dedicated jail or detention sales-tax levy was found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Jefferson 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