The Detention Center
Teller County Detentions Facility (Teller County Jail)
- Operated byTeller County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address288 Weaverville Road, Divide, CO 80814 (mail: P.O. Box 730, Divide, CO 80814)
- Jail phone719-687-7770
- Security levelCounty describes the facility as medium security; population is pre-trial, pre-sentence or awaiting transfer, no long-term inmates
- Immigration detaineesCounty page describes the facility as also holding ICE detainees and links an Immigration Detainee Locator; no contract or per-diem rate is published on the county site
- Bond postingSheriff's Office has an agreement with Genesis eBONDS for surety bonding under HB 25-1015; online bond posting link published
- VisitationAll visitation is video visitation via HomeWAV (home or jail lobby); schedule published, no rates published
- Commissary / fundsJailATM online commissary and deposits; lobby kiosk; money orders and cashier's checks accepted. No fee schedule or per-minute rates published
- Roster count seen65 total inmates on the active roster at the time of checking
- BedsNot found — no published bed capacity on the county site
- What was triedhttps://www.tellercounty.gov/Detentions-Facility ; https://www.tellercounty.gov/Sheriff ; https://www.tellercounty.gov/Command-Staff ; https://www.tellercounty.gov/776/Inmate-Phone-Commissary-Information ; https://www.tellercounty.gov/Jail-Visitation ; https://www.tellercounty.gov/sitemap
Source: Teller County — Detentions Facility · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jason Mikesell
- Runs the jailYes — the Teller County Sheriff's Office maintains the Detentions Facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff (Colorado, CRS Title 30 / Title 17 Art. 26)
- UndersheriffStan Bishop
- Detentions CommanderKevin Tedesco, oversees the Detention Division (36 full-time employees)
- Office size100 full-time employees across Operations, Detentions and Emergency Services
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Teller County Sheriff's Office — Command Staff · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Colorado judges are appointed through a judicial nominating commission and then face retention elections. District and county court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. Teller County sits in the 4th Judicial District. The courthouse is at 101 W. Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek.
4th Judicial District — District Court Judge (Teller County)
- William Moller
Teller County Court — County Court Judge
- Elizabeth McClintock
- 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 a Teller County Sheriff's Office PREA Policy (PDF) and a PREA Coordinator contact form, but no PREA audit report or audit result was found on the county site, so the prea check is recorded as no.
- The inmate roster is reached from the county's own Jail Inmate Search page; the roster application itself is hosted off-domain. Roster shows a live count but no bed capacity, so capacity is recorded as no.
- The 2026 Adopted Budget and line-item detail published by the county include a Sheriff – Detentions department (#2050) and a separate Jail Enterprise Fund summary.
- Colorado's state Jail Data Dashboard (https://ors.colorado.gov/ors-jaildata) publishes county jail population and in-custody death data under CRS 17-26-118 (HB19-1297). That is the state publishing, not the county, so it does not satisfy the deaths or capacity checks.
- No death-in-custody disclosure was found on the county's own site.
- Three-member Board of County Commissioners elected by district: Dan Williams (District 1), Bob Campbell (District 2, Vice-Chair), Erik Stone (District 3, Chair). Meets normally the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 112 North A Street, Centennial Building, Cripple Creek. The county budget includes a separate Jail Enterprise Fund and a Sheriff – Detentions department line (#2050).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Teller 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