The Detention Center
Park County Jail
- Operated byPark County Sheriff's Office
- Jail mailing addressPark County Jail, P.O. Box 965, Fairplay, CO 80440
- Jail phone719-836-4373
- VisitationTwo hours per inmate per week, one hour per visit; 8 a.m.–11 a.m. and 1 p.m.–8 p.m. daily; must be booked 48 hours ahead by phone; no walk-ins
- Care packagesOrdered through jailatm.com with a $100 spending limit
- PREA material publishedPREA policy PDF and a PREA Annual Report PDF, both linked from the jail page
- Who it holdsThe county's own 2026 final budget shows jail revenue lines for federal reimbursement and state Department of Corrections reimbursement, and an expenditure line for out-of-county inmate housing
- Beds / capacityNot published on the county site
Source: Park County Jail · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 Tom McGraw
- Runs the jailYes — the Park County Sheriff's Office operates the Park County Jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- UndersheriffSteve Spodyak
- Sheriff's office address1180 CR 16, P.O. Box 604, Fairplay, CO 80440
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Park 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 typically set bond at first appearance. The Colorado Judicial Branch's Park County page lists the 11th Judicial District chief judge and the county court judge but no separately named resident district judges.
11th Judicial District Court — Chief Judge
- Amanda Hunter
Park County Court — County Court Judge
- Brian Green
- 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
- PREA is marked 'yes' with a caveat: the county publishes its own PREA policy (Custody Services Manual Policy 606, http://parkco.us/DocumentCenter/View/2986) and a PREA Annual Report PDF (http://parkco.us/DocumentCenter/View/2985) from the jail page. The annual report is the county's own reporting, not a third-party PREA auditor's report; the annual report PDF is scanned and has no extractable text.
- Roster is 'no': the county tells the public to telephone the jail on 719-836-4373 or use the third-party VINE Link service, and warns that people held for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Colorado Department of Corrections, or on other counties' charges will not show up there. The county publishes no in-custody list on its own site.
- Contracts is 'no' but the arrangement is visible: the 2026 final budget (https://www.parkcountyco.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9837/2026-Final-Budget----for-website) shows jail cost centre 2128 with revenue lines 334104 FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT, 334105 STATE GRANT-JBBS and 334901 STATE REIMBURSEMENT (DOC), and an expenditure line for Out of County Inmate Housing. No agreement or per-diem rate is published.
- Fees is 'no': the Sheriff's Office Fee Schedule (https://www.parkcountyco.gov/817/Sheriffs-Office-Fees) publishes a $10 bond process fee and civil, records and permit fees, but no jail telephone, video visit or commissary rate schedule. Care packs are sold through jailatm.com with a $100 cap but no prices are shown.
- The Right To Bond Requirements page publishes the county's CRS 16-4-102 procedures and the statutory notice of a payer's rights, including that only a $10 bond fee and a maximum 3.5% credit card fee may be charged as a post-release debt.
- No death-in-custody report, bed count, daily population figure or independent inspection result was found on the county site. Colorado's statewide Jail Data Dashboard (https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata) collects quarterly population and death data under CRS 17-26-118, but that is state publishing and does not satisfy the county-site checks.
- Board of County Commissioners — three members elected at large from geographic districts for four-year staggered terms: District 1 Amy Mitchell, District 2 Jason Gemmer, District 3 Dave Wissel. County offices at 856 Castello Avenue, Fairplay, CO 80440. No dedicated jail or detention sales-tax levy was found; the jail is cost centre 2128 in the General Fund.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Park 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