The Detention Center
Larimer County Jail
- Operated byLarimer County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address2405 Midpoint Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525
- Jail phone(970) 498-5200
- Jail division commanderCaptain Troy Badberg
- Capacity and populationThe county publishes a live Jail Population page showing capacity, current population, target and empty beds, with housing shown in 50-bed units, plus average length of stay over the past 365 days
- Bond posting24/7 — cash, cashier's check, money order at the release window; credit card or online via AllPaid; kiosk at the jail entrance (Facility Locator #280525)
- Bond types publishedPersonal recognizance; PR-cosign/PR-surety; cash/cash-surety; surety bond (bonding agent fee generally 10-15%); property bond posted at the Court Clerk's office
- Fees published on jail page$30 booking fee per inmate; $10 bonding fee per case
- Communication vendorsViaPath Technologies / GettingOut for calls and video visits, ConnectNetwork AdvancePay for prepaid calling, TouchPay for commissary deposits — calls limited to 15 minutes; no per-minute rates published
- ProgramsMedication-assisted treatment (MAT) program with voluntary inmate participation; digital library of 7,000+ books
- Year built / costNot published on the county site
- What was triedhttps://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/operations ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail-info/jail-population ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail/inmate-visitation ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail/inmate-mail-and-phone-calls ; https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail-info and https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail-info/prea both returned 404 — no PREA audit, death-in-custody or inspection page found
- Fetch refusedhttps://www.larimer.gov/sites/default/files/2026-adopted-budget.pdf exceeded the fetch size limit, so no detention line-item figure is cited
Source: Larimer County Jail · 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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found — the county publishes a live capacity and population figure rather than a static rated bed count; housing is described in 50-bed units
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff John Feyen
- Runs the jailYes — the Larimer County Sheriff's Office operates the Larimer County Jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Jail division commanderCaptain Troy Badberg — 'provide general management, direction and supervision to the division'
- Sheriff's administration address2501 Midpoint Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80525
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Larimer County Sheriff's Office · 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.
8th Judicial District — District Court Chief Judge
- Gregory M. Lammons (Division 5B)
8th Judicial District — District Court Judges
- C. Michelle Brinegar (Division 4A)
- Kara E. Clark (Division 3B)
- Sarah B. Cure (Division 5C)
- Laurie K. Dean (Division 4C)
- Joseph D. Findley (Division 3A)
- Daniel M. McDonald (Division 4B)
- Daniel M. St. John II (Division 3C)
- Division 5A vacant
Larimer County Court — County Court Judges
- Donald P. Delaney (Division 4D)
- Kraig S. Ecton (Division L1)
- Katharine "Jenny" Ellison (Division CC)
- Joshua B. Lehman (Division 5D)
- Thomas L. Lynch (Division 3D)
- Matthew R. Zehe (Division L2)
Still needed
- 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
- Larimer County is the strongest publisher in this group. It hosts its own in-custody search, daily booking and release reports, an incident blotter, and a live jail population page showing capacity, current population and empty beds on larimer.gov itself rather than sending the public to a third-party vendor.
- The county publishes its adopted budget through its Performance, Budget and Strategy office; the 2026 budget is described as $770 million in gross expenditures. The full adopted budget PDF exceeded the fetch size limit, so no departmental detention figure is quoted here.
- The jail page publishes a $30 booking fee per inmate and a $10 bonding fee per case, but no phone, video-visit or commissary rates, so the fees check is recorded as no. Communication vendors are named (ViaPath/GettingOut, ConnectNetwork, TouchPay) without rates.
- No PREA audit result, death-in-custody report, independent inspection result, or contract with rates to hold other agencies' prisoners was found published on larimer.gov. Both https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail-info and https://www.larimer.gov/sheriff/jail-info/prea returned 404.
- Larimer 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 and does not satisfy the county deaths check.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members elected to staggered four-year terms, limited to three terms: John Kefalas (District I, Chair Pro Tem), Kristin Stephens (District II), Jody Shadduck-McNally (District III, Chair). Described on the county site as 'the main policy-making body in the County'. No dedicated detention sales-tax levy was found published.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Larimer 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