Locate Bent County Correctional Facility Inmates

Bent County Correctional Facility Overview

Bent County Correctional Facility is a CoreCivic-operated prison under contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections. The 2017 PREA audit identifies it as a private for-profit prison and a medium security, Level 3 facility for adult male Colorado DOC prisoners. That makes it a different custody system from Bent County Jail, which is operated by the sheriff and handles local bookings, bond, county holds, and short-term detention.

The facility is physically located in Las Animas, so searchers often confuse it with the county jail. The lookup test is simple. A recent arrest, local bond question, or county booking belongs with Bent County Jail. A sentenced Colorado prisoner, a DOC number, parole board issue, or prison facility assignment belongs with CDOC. New Bent County arrests generally do not go straight to this prison.

The Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search is the correct public locator for sentenced prisoners assigned to Bent County Correctional Facility.

The CDOC search form matters because it separates state prison custody from the sheriff's jail feed, which cannot be used as the main prison locator.

Bent County Correctional Facility Population

The 2017 PREA audit gives the strongest public facility statistics captured for Bent County Correctional Facility. The audit table listed designed capacity as 1,465, and the audit narrative says the 2008 expansion brought the facility to 1,469 beds. The same audit listed 1,417 prisoners during the audit visit, an age range from 19 to 80, and 230 staff assigned in the prior 12 months. Those figures are audit-date facts, not a live current population count.

Capacity wording should stay precise because the sources vary slightly. The table capacity and narrative expansion number come from the same PREA source but appear in different parts of the audit. For a present-day population, use CDOC or the facility phone because the research did not find a current public population dashboard for this prison.

Look Up Bent County Correctional Facility Inmates

Use CDOC Offender Search for Bent County Correctional Facility. The search supports DOCNO, last name, first name, and gender. CDOC tips say the DOC number is the primary identifier and may contain up to six numeric characters. Name fields return names beginning with the letters entered, and the offender name may be the arresting or prosecuted name rather than a later legal name. Select All for gender if the filter might exclude the right person.

1. Open the CDOC Offender Search and enter the DOCNO if available.
2. If no DOCNO is known, search by last name and first name, using partial spelling when needed.
3. Review the result for facility assignment, custody status, and identity matches.
4. If the person is not found, check whether the name, spelling, DOC number, or custody system is wrong.
5. Call the facility for current visit or housing questions after the CDOC record confirms the assignment.

Bent County Correctional Facility Contact

Facility-specific questions about current visitation, mail acceptance, phone access, approved visitors, or housing should go to the prison or CDOC channel. Do not call Bent County Jail for state-prison visit rules unless the question concerns a person still held in the sheriff's jail before transfer. The prison address and phone below come from the facility map and PREA audit research.

For official sentence, custody, or time-credit questions, CDOC is the better record source than the county sheriff. For local court case records from the conviction, use the court that handled the case. The prison can answer facility-access questions, but it may not be the custodian for every sentencing record or court document.

Bent County Correctional Facility Visits

The research did not locate a current facility-specific public visiting schedule for Bent County Correctional Facility because the CDOC facility page was blocked in the research environment. Use prison-style caution: state prison visits normally require approval, identity checks, scheduling, dress and conduct rules, and possible limits by custody status or housing unit. Confirm all current rules directly with CDOC or the facility before travel.

This distinction prevents a common error. Bent County Jail has HomeWAV and local pod schedules. Bent County Correctional Facility is a state prison under CDOC contract, so county jail video visit hours, on-site HomeWAV rules, and county visitor-denial lists should not be copied to the prison unless the prison itself confirms them.

Bent County Correctional Facility Mail and Money

Use CDOC and facility instructions for mail, phone, and money at Bent County Correctional Facility. The research did not capture a current official prison mail format, deposit vendor, package program, phone vendor, or fee table for this facility. That means county jail services should not be imported. HomeWAV, MailGuard, Access Corrections, and Bent County Jail bond rules are county jail facts unless a prison or CDOC source says they also apply here.

When a person was recently arrested in Bent County but has not been sentenced, start with the Bent County Jail page instead. Once a person is in CDOC custody and assigned to a prison, the local jail's bond, mail, and visit rules no longer control the main access path.

Bent County Correctional Facility Intake

Prison intake is different from county jail booking. Bent County Jail receives people after arrest or local commitment, creates or confirms jail custody records, and may deal with bond, first appearance, and short-term holds. Bent County Correctional Facility receives sentenced Colorado DOC prisoners under a state contract. The record path moves from the sentencing court and CDOC into prison assignment, classification, housing, and facility management.

The PREA audit describes a prison physical plant that includes seven general housing units and one segregation unit. It also describes intake and property storage, medical, visitation, laundry, dining and food service, chapel, library, education and vocational classrooms, two gyms, two recreation yards, and a master control center. Those features support a long-term prison operation rather than a local booking desk.

About Bent County Correctional Facility

Bent County Correctional Facility opened in April 1993 as a 309-bed minimum restricted correctional facility. Bent County owned and operated it until Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic, purchased it in October 1996. The facility expanded to 703 beds in 1997, then expanded again in 2008. The 2017 PREA audit states that CoreCivic owned and operated the facility under contract with CDOC to house Colorado Department of Corrections inmates.

The audit describes block and concrete construction, two 12-foot fence lines, razor wire on the exterior fence, and a 24-hour mobile patrol unit. It also reported PREA audit results with six standards exceeded, 34 met, zero not met, and three not applicable. Allegations were referred to the Colorado DOC Office of Inspector General for investigation or prosecution when warranted, according to the audit.