Search the Park County Inmate Population

Park County Inmate Population Overview

The Park County inmate population is centered on one local detention facility, the Park County Jail in Fairplay, operated by the Park County Sheriff's Office. Official county material does not identify a state prison, federal prison, ICE facility, or separate regional jail inside Park County. That simple facility map does not mean the custody search is simple. The county jail page tells the public to call the jail or use VINELink for people with Park County charges only, and it warns that ICE, DOC, and other-county-charge detainees will not appear through the Park County VINE path.

Population figures need dates attached. The Vera Institute Incarceration Trends county dataset lists Park County with a 2025 total jail population of 17, rated capacity of 200, 215 jail admissions, 11 pretrial detainees, and 6 sentenced jail inmates. Those figures describe a county-level jail average, not a current roster. County financial materials add a sharp 2026 caution: Park County reported that jail operations were temporarily shut down in December 2025 due to safety concerns while the county reviewed the structure and options. The 2026 budget also includes out-of-county inmate housing, so a current Park County inmate population question should be confirmed with the jail.

Park County Inmate Population Statistics

The main county-level statistics come from Vera's March 2026 release and should be read as averages or estimates. Vera values can be fractional in some years because they reflect averaged jail data, not a single head count taken at one moment. For Park County, the 2025 row shows a small jail population compared with listed capacity. The same research file notes that this 2025 average should not be used as proof of June 2026 in-county housing because of the later county closure and out-of-county housing budget material.

Park County Jail Population Trends

Vera's multi-year data shows a major drop in the Park County jail population from 2019 through 2025. The 2019 total jail population was 55, while the 2025 figure was 17. Admissions also changed sharply, with 750 admissions in 2023 and 215 in 2025. These numbers describe the county jail system over time, not a list of people who are in custody today. They also sit next to changing capacity records, including historical Colorado materials that list different contract capacity figures for older years.

Park County's small population and large land area make those trends local in a real way. Census QuickFacts estimates 18,314 residents in a county covering 2,193.51 square miles. Fairplay, Bailey, Alma, Hartsel, and Lake George all feed into a mountain-county sheriff, jail, and court system, with winter weather and highway travel affecting visits, court appearances, and records business.

Who Makes Up Park County Custody

The 2025 Vera row splits the Park County inmate population into 11 pretrial detainees and 6 sentenced jail inmates. Pretrial means a person has not reached final conviction or sentence in that case and is held while bond, court date, or case status is pending. Sentenced jail custody usually means a shorter local jail sentence, not a Colorado prison sentence. Once a person is sentenced to state prison and transferred, the Colorado DOC locator becomes the correct system.

Vera's 2025 demographic row lists 14.5 male and 2.5 female jail inmates, with race and ethnicity averages of 1.5 Black, 1 Latinx, and 14 White. These figures should be handled as averages, not exact people counted on a roster. Park County's public sheriff pages do not publish a live demographic dashboard, housing-unit census, average length of stay, or daily jail population feed.

Pretrial

Held before final case outcome, often while bond, court dates, or holds are pending.

Sentenced jail inmate

Serving a local jail sentence or held after sentencing before another custody step.

DOC transfer

Movement into Colorado Department of Corrections custody after a state-prison sentence.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency, such as ICE, DOC, parole, or another county.

Park County Jail Capacity

Park County capacity records do not tell one fixed story. Vera lists rated capacity as 200 in 2024 and 2025. Older Colorado legislative and DOC materials listed Park County Jail at 250 contract capacity in FY 2010-11 and FY 2014-15, while a 2007 figure-setting document listed 100. A Park County and U.S. Marshals Service detention agreement estimated 60 federal beds, split between adult men and women. Those figures show capacity history, not a current operating count.

The most current operational issue is not overcrowding. It is whether Park County Jail is housing people in the same way older records imply. County financial reporting says the jail was temporarily closed in December 2025 due to safety concerns, and 2026 budget materials include $576,000 for out-of-county inmate housing. That makes direct confirmation through the jail phone line important before scheduling a visit, sending money, or assuming an inmate is physically in Fairplay.

Laws for Park County Jail Data

Colorado public-record law uses two related paths. The Colorado Open Records Act covers many public records, while the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act covers criminal justice records and records of official actions. For Park County inmate records, that means sheriff records, jail records, booking photos, court filings, and CBI records may follow different request routes and limits. CBI also states that it does not maintain arrest reports from other agencies, so Park County arrest reports should be requested from the arresting agency.

Colorado jail standards also matter. HB24-1054 and the Colorado jail-standards oversight framework require county jails to comply with adopted standards beginning July 1, 2026. That statewide rule is relevant to Park County because county materials already describe safety concerns and facility review.

Park County and DOC Custody

Colorado Department of Corrections custody is separate from Park County jail custody. The CDOC Offender Search is used after a person is sentenced to state prison or is otherwise under DOC custody. It searches by DOC number, last name, first name, gender, and captcha. CDOC records can be sentence and facility focused, with fields such as DOC number, name, facility, physical description, parole eligibility date, current convictions, sentence date, county, and case number.

No CDOC state prison was identified inside Park County. A Park County arrestee may still become a DOC inmate after conviction and transfer, but that person is no longer found through a Park County jail roster path. The county's jail page makes that distinction plain by warning that DOC-held inmates are not found through Park County's VINE link and that the jail should be called for those exceptions.

How to Search Park County Inmates

Park County does not publish a county-hosted inmate roster or public jail search form in the inspected official pages. The official lookup chain starts with the jail phone line and VINELink. For someone with Park County charges, call Park County Jail at 719-836-4373 or use VINELink by name as the county instructs. If VINE returns no match, that does not prove the person is free. Park County says ICE, DOC, and other-county-charge detainees will not show through its VINE path.

1. Start with the custody stage. New Park County arrests and local holds begin with the jail phone line and VINE.
2. Have the person's full name, aliases, approximate date of birth, arrest date, and suspected charge ready.
3. Use VINELink only for Park County charge custody and notification, then call the jail for exceptions.
4. Check sheriff activity reports for public arrest summary context, not live custody proof.
5. Use the court docket for hearings and case numbers, and use DOC, BOP, or ICE when custody has moved.

The official Park County jail page is shown in the screenshot captured from the county's jail information page.

The county page is important because it gives the phone and VINELink route while also naming the custody types that VINE does not cover.

Park County Custody Lookup Fields

Because Park County does not publish its own roster form, the local search-field table is limited to the VINE instruction the county gives. Do not treat Park County as a county with a searchable booking-number page or a current-inmate grid. The practical table is a channel table, not a roster-profile form.

Past Park County Inmate Records

Released and past inmates are harder to search in Park County because no public county roster archive was found. The Sheriff's weekly activity reports are the closest official public local summary. They can show week or date range, call categories, arrestee name, residence or city, arrest date, charge narrative, release status, release date, and bond amount or bond type. They are not a live jail roster, and inspected material did not show booking photos, booking numbers, housing units, or full demographic fields.

For a past sheriff record, use the sheriff records process and the local fee schedule. Park County lists records checks at $10, case reports at $7.50 for search, retrieval, redaction, and the first 10 pages, additional pages at $0.25 each, case photos at $2.50 each, research and redaction at $30 per hour with a one-hour minimum, 8 GB thumb drives at $20, and mailing records at $3. Court documents use the Judicial Branch request form and court fee schedule instead.

What Park County Records Show

A Park County inmate record may be a custody confirmation, an activity-report entry, a court docket result, a DOC profile, or a federal locator result depending on the system. That distinction matters. A sheriff activity summary may name an arrestee and charge narrative, but it is not the same as a court complaint or a DOC sentence profile. A docket entry can show an Appearance on Arrest Warrant or First Hearing, but it does not prove the person is still in custody.

County Jail vs State Prison

Park County jail custody and Colorado state prison custody answer different questions. County jail is the first place to check for a new arrest, a pretrial hold, a short local sentence, or a person awaiting bond or transfer. State prison is the place to check after a felony sentence to DOC. Federal and immigration custody are separate again, and Park County's own jail page warns that those detainees do not appear through the local VINE path.

Park County Detention Facilities

The Facility Map identifies one local detention facility in Park County. It is the Park County Jail, also called the Park County Detention Facility in older U.S. Marshals agreement material. No state prison, BOP prison, dedicated ICE facility, or USMS-only facility was identified inside the county. That one-facility map still includes several custody systems because local, state, federal, immigration, and other-county holds can intersect.

• Park County Jail - the county jail operated by the Park County Sheriff's Office for Park County pretrial and local custody, with current housing status requiring phone confirmation due to the 2025 closure and 2026 out-of-county housing context.

Park County Bond and Visits

Park County's bond-rights page is unusually detailed. It cites C.R.S. 16-4-102 and states that arrestees should be brought before a court for bond setting as soon as practicable and no later than 48 hours after jail arrival, absent extraordinary circumstances. Once bond has been granted, release should occur as soon as practicable and no later than six hours after return to or physical presence in jail, absent extraordinary circumstances. Bond fees and other debts do not need to be paid to secure release on a money bond.

Visitor rules are also published. The Park County visitation page lists family and friend visits Sunday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., with no visits from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each inmate receives two hours per week, each visit is limited to one hour, and visits must be scheduled by calling 719-836-4373 option 8 at least 48 hours in advance. No walk-ins are accepted.

The county visitation page is shown below from the official source.

The schedule matters because current custody confirmation and a scheduled visit are separate steps, especially while Park County housing arrangements may change.

Park County Court Records After Arrest

Custody records and court records are related but separate. The sheriff and jail handle booking, custody, release logistics, activity reports, case photos, and local law-enforcement records. Park Combined Court handles case numbers, hearing calendars, court filings, disposition and sentence orders, and document copies. The 11th Judicial District Attorney reviews evidence and files or litigates charges. Court records after a Park County jail arrest may show formal charges that differ from the arrest charge in a sheriff summary.

Use the Colorado Judicial Branch docket search for hearing-calendar information. Use the Judicial Branch record/document request form for copies. CoCourts is a paid Register of Action service that can show case status and events, but it does not provide document copies and is not the official court record. For court-specific routing, Park Combined Court is at 300 Fourth St., P.O. Box 190, Fairplay, CO 80440.

Park County Mugshot Records

No official Park County public mugshot gallery, recent-booking-photo feed, or roster mugshot page was found in the inspected county sources. The jail page does not display inmate cards or booking photos. The weekly activity reports provide public arrest summaries, but inspected material did not show mugshots. A person seeking a booking photo should use the official sheriff records process and should not treat commercial mugshot pages as government sources.

Colorado's booking-photo law is relevant because C.R.S. 24-72-305.5 includes a commercial-use restriction tied to booking photos and paid removal. Park County's fee schedule lists case photos at $2.50 each, but that does not guarantee every booking photo is releasable. CCJRA limits, redaction, active investigations, juvenile status, court order, and public-interest review can affect access.

Park County Inmate Population FAQ

How big is the Park County inmate population? Vera lists the 2025 Park County total jail population as 17 with rated capacity of 200. That is an average or estimated county-level figure, not a live roster count.

How do I search the Park County inmate population? Call Park County Jail at 719-836-4373 or use VINELink for people with Park County charges. If DOC, ICE, federal, or other-county custody may be involved, use the correct outside locator and call the jail.

Why might VINELink miss someone? Park County says ICE, DOC, and other-county-charge detainees will not be found through the Park County VINE link. A no-result search is not the same as a release confirmation.

Are there state prisons in Park County? No state prison was identified inside Park County from official sources. Sentenced Colorado prisoners are searched through CDOC, not the county jail page.

Can I find a past Park County inmate online? The county does not publish a public roster archive in the inspected pages. Check sheriff activity reports for arrest summaries, court dockets for case events, and the sheriff records process for releasable records.