The Detention Center
Kit Carson County Detention Center
- Operated byKit Carson County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1650 Donelan Ave, Suite 103, Burlington, CO 80807
- Jail phone719-346-7006
- Bond postingBonds accepted 24 hours a day — cash, money order or credit card (3% credit card fee)
- VisitationThursdays only by kiosk, 9:30-11:30am and 12:30-4pm; one hour per inmate per day
- Inmate fundsAccess Corrections or mail money order; video visits via a third-party vendor
- Beds / capacityNot published on the county site
- What was triedhttps://kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov/kcc-sheriff/detention-center ; https://kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov/kcc-sheriff ; https://kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov/departments ; https://kitcarsoncounty.colorado.gov/administration — no capacity, budget, PREA, death or inspection data found
- Fetch refusedhttps://www.kccsheriff.com/ — DNS/robots failure, not readable, so not cited
Source: Kit Carson County Sheriff — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 Travis Belden
- Runs the jailYes — the Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office operates the Kit Carson County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- UndersheriffWyatt Bishop
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kit Carson County Sheriff — Administration · 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. County court judges normally set bail at first appearance.
13th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Carl S. McGuire III
13th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- Matthew W. E. Bradley
- Dina M. Christiansen
- Stevie M.G. Gagliano
- Robert C. James
- Kimbra L. Killin
Kit Carson County Court — County Court Judge
- Michael K. Grinnan
- 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
- The county names its jail as the Kit Carson County Detention Center on the sheriff's own page and explains bond posting there.
- The county does not publish an in-custody roster on its own site; the detention page directs the public to a third-party mobile app, which does not count as county publishing.
- Commissary and video-visit vendors are named but no phone, video-visit or commissary rates are published on the county site.
- Kit Carson County reports jail population and inmate deaths to the state under CRS 17-26-118 (HB19-1297), published on the state Jail Data Dashboard at https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata. That is state publishing, not county publishing, so it does not satisfy the deaths or capacity checks.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members by district: Stan Hitchcock (District 1), Cory Wall (District 2), Dave Hornung (District 3). The Board meets regularly on Wednesdays in the Commissioners' Board Room at the courthouse in Burlington. No dedicated detention sales-tax levy was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kit Carson 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