The Detention Center
Not separately named on the county site — the detention operation is presented as part of the Rio Grande County Sheriff's Office (RGSO)
- Operated byRio Grande County Sheriff's Office
- Address640 Cherry Street, Del Norte, CO 81132
- Holds Saguache County prisonersPer Saguache County's own sheriff page: "Saguache County inmates will now be held at the Rio Grande Sheriff's Department in Del Norte, Colorado."
- What was triedhttps://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/sheriff, https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/rio-grande-county-sheriff, https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/frequently-asked-questions and https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/rgso-fees — none names a jail, states beds, or gives a population figure
Source: Rio Grande County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 Anne Robinson
- Runs the jailYes — the Rio Grande County Sheriff's Office holds prisoners at 640 Cherry Street, Del Norte
- Holds another county's prisonersSaguache County's own sheriff page states Saguache inmates are held at the Rio Grande Sheriff's Department in Del Norte
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Office address640 Cherry Street, Del Norte, CO 81132
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Rio Grande County Sheriff · 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.
12th Judicial District Court — Chief Judge
- Amanda C. Hopkins
12th Judicial District Court — District Judges
- Kim Cortez-Rodriguez
- Michael A. Gonzales (also Water Judge)
- Crista Newmyer-Olsen
Rio Grande County Court
- Jason Kelly
- John W. Stenger
- 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 publishes the sheriff's office PREA policy (Policy 606, Prison Rape Elimination Act) as a PDF on its own domain. This is the office's policy, not an audit result — no PREA audit report was found.
- Bond guidance is published as a 'Legal Requirements - Bonds' PDF on the sheriff's page.
- The published fee schedule at https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/rgso-fees covers only service of process and concealed handgun permit fees under House Bill 10-1057. No inmate phone, video visit or commissary rates are published, so fees is recorded no.
- Budget documents (including the Approved 2024 Budget and monthly financials) are published through the county's Budget and Finance page, but no separate detention or corrections line item was located, and no rate is published for holding Saguache County's prisoners.
- The county also links a statewide Transparency Online page at https://data.colorado.gov/stories/s/fjyf-bdat — that is a state publication and does not count as the county publishing.
- The state Jail Data Dashboard at https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata is a state publication under CRS 17-26-118 and does not count for the deaths or capacity checks.
- Board of County Commissioners: Scott Deacon (District 1), Tyler Ratzlaff (District 2, Chair), Gene Glover (District 3). Meets every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. at 925 6th Street, Del Norte, with a Zoom option. Agendas, minutes, recordings and resolutions are posted through linked Google Drive folders. No dedicated jail tax found.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Rio Grande 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