El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center Inmate Lookup

El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center Overview

El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center is operated by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. The facility sits on East Las Vegas Street in Colorado Springs and is also called the CJC in sheriff materials and roster location fields. The jail holds adult arrestees, pretrial detainees, people remanded from court, county-sentenced inmates, people held on warrants or other agency holds, parolees, extradition cases from the 4th Judicial District, and people awaiting transport to court, the Colorado Department of Corrections, other Colorado counties or cities, state hospital, or medical appointments.

The current official sheriff materials reviewed did not publish a rated bed capacity for the jail. The 2024 EPSO Annual Report, linked from the sheriff's site, says the jail averaged nearly 1,250 incarcerated citizens in custody at any given time and describes 23 housing units plus a medical section, industrial kitchen, laundry room, classification, intake and release, court transport, programs, and facility inspection functions. The county's 2024 budget book separately describes the Detention Bureau as the sheriff office's largest program and says it serves an approximate daily average jail population close to 1,300.

The sheriff's inmate-services page is the main source for jail operations that affect families: funds, mail, property, public video visitation, professional visitation, bonding, advisements, and Jail Based Behavioral Health Services. The adult roster is separate from the nearby Spring Creek Youth Services Center, which is a CDHS/DYS youth facility and not a source for adult El Paso County jail roster records.

El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center Capacity and Population

El Paso County's adult jail population is centered at the sheriff-operated CJC. The most useful current official figure in the research is the 2024 EPSO Annual Report statement that the jail averaged nearly 1,250 people in custody at any given time. The 2023 EPSO Annual Report reported 15,430 booked people across booking categories, with an all-category average length of stay of 31.82 days. Those figures are not a live count, and they should not be treated as a guaranteed current population on the day a reader searches.

Population pressure also comes from people who are not simple local misdemeanor bookings. The 2023 category table included DOC sentenced inmates with a 108.12-day average length of stay, military inmates, hold inmates, sentenced felony and misdemeanor inmates, and pretrial misdemeanor detainees. That mix explains why someone may be in the El Paso County roster even while another agency, court, or state custody process affects release timing.

How to Look Up an Inmate at El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center

Use the official EPSO Search for Inmates page for adult county-jail custody. The sheriff roster is free and no login was observed. It searches by last name or booking number, then links a booking number to a detail profile. EPSO warns that the tool is informational and that users should not take official action from the web data without first contacting the booking desk at 719-390-2151. The official page also warns that mobile-device results may not be accurate, so a desktop retry or phone confirmation can matter.

1. Open the official EPSO Search for Inmates page, not the CDOC, BOP, ICE, or Spring Creek pages.
2. Enter a last name with at least two characters or a 10-character booking number if one is available.
3. Review matching names and booking numbers, then open the booking-number link for the profile.
4. Confirm the CJC location, charges, bonds, holds, warrants, and release information with the booking desk before posting bond, traveling, or relying on a court date.

The public roster profile can show booking number, name, DOB as observed in public fields, physical descriptors, sex, race, scars or marks, location/building, charges, court dates, court division, court case number, bond type, bond amount, release date rows, holds, and warrants. The inspected public roster code did not render a mugshot field. Formal case documents are handled by Colorado Judicial and the El Paso County court, not by the jail roster.

The official sheriff inmate-search page shows the roster fields readers use before calling the jail.

The roster screenshot is useful because it shows the two public search paths: a name search for people who do not know the booking number, and a booking-number search for people who already have the jail identifier.

El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center Address and Contact

Custody questions, booking confirmation, bond timing, visit logistics, and jail lobby functions route through the CJC rather than the downtown records counter. The Records Unit is at the sheriff's Vermijo Avenue office and handles CCJRA/CORA record requests, booking reports, booking photographs, body-camera requests, and other releasable records. The public lobby at the jail handles 24/7 transaction-window functions described in EPSO inmate-services material, including approved funds and property pickup.

Visiting Someone at El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center

Public visitation is video visitation through JailATM. Public visitors do not see the inmate in person. Visits are scheduled online for 15 or 30 minutes, and the visitation week runs Sunday through Saturday. Visit limits depend on the inmate's ward and status, so there is no single universal schedule for every person in the jail. Inmates are expected to check monitors and the daily schedule posted in their wards. Staff do not notify inmates of public visits.

Professional visits are different. Attorneys and other approved professionals may use in-person visits, Webex, or JailATM depending on role, approval, and scheduling. Professionals are encouraged to visit during 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. normal business hours, but after-hours visits are available. Counts and meal times are poor windows, including 4:00 to 6:00 a.m., 6:45 a.m., 10:00 a.m. to noon, 2:30 p.m., 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., and 9:45 p.m. The professional visitation front desk direct line is 719-390-2130.

Ward limits range from one visit per week in some wards to higher limits in others. Tower wards may allow two per day and six per week, while disciplinary lockdown has no visits. Visitor registration can require name, address, phone, email, date of birth, and photo identification. EPSO dress-code and conduct rules are detailed, and active protection orders can terminate visits or trigger a ban.

Mail, Phone, and Money at El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center

Personal mail does not go to the jail building. EPSO uses a third-party scanning vendor in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The envelope must include the inmate's full booking name and admit or booking number, plus the sender's full name and complete return address. Do not send funds, legal mail, publications, or packages to the personal-mail vendor address. Legal and approved government mail still goes to the physical jail address.

Money may be deposited in person at the lobby transaction window, by mail with cashier's checks or money orders, through Access Corrections online or mobile channels, or by phone through Access Corrections. Personal checks and cash through the mail are not accepted. Phone accounts use Correct Solutions, and approved food packages use MyCarePack. Video visitation uses JailATM.

Booking and Intake at El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center

Booking begins when a person is arrested, remanded from court, or transferred into sheriff custody on a hold or other agency request. EPSO's Intake and Release Section maintains required records and accountability for inmate funds and property under C.R.S. 17-26-103. Intake records can include court updates, new charges, bond charges, work-release fees, pretrial-services details, and holds from other agencies.

The practical custody path usually includes document review, a booking record, identification, property inventory, funds handling, medical or mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, and court or advisement scheduling. EPSO notes that most arrestees with zero-bond holds go to court at 8:30 a.m. the business morning after arrest. If bond is authorized, bonds can be posted at EPSO 24 hours a day, but web roster data should still be confirmed before payment.

If someone is not found in the EPSO roster, that does not prove no arrest or no case exists. The person may have been released, transferred, booked under a different name, moved to CDOC after sentencing, held by another county, placed in federal custody, or involved in a case that must be searched through Colorado Judicial.

About El Paso County Jail / Criminal Justice Center

Programs at the CJC are significant because the jail's population includes pretrial detainees, sentenced local inmates, parolees, holds, and people awaiting transport. Jail Based Behavioral Health Services offers substance-abuse counseling, medication-assisted therapy education and referrals, release planning, behavioral-health counseling, and interim competency care. Inmates can request JBBS through the inmate kiosk, and family or support contacts may refer someone, although staff cannot release detailed medical or treatment information without proper documentation.

Gateways Through the Rockies provides job skills and training for sentenced inmates. The 2023 annual report described participants working with Evergreen and Fairview Cemeteries, El Paso County Facilities, and Republic Recycling Services. The 2024 annual report material also noted vocational janitorial training, Celebrate Recovery, a volunteer Rabbi for Jewish faith support and mentorship, an incentive program, and jail voting process implementation with the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder.

EPSO also reported TRUST crisis-response work, Lexan barriers to reduce upper-tier suicide attempts, a body scanner and drug detection devices, and medical-provider changes highlighted in annual-report materials. These details should be read as operating and program context, not as a substitute for current custody confirmation, court records, or medical information.