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Routt County Detention Center Overview

The Routt County Detention Center is the primary and only facility listed in the Routt County facility map. It is operated by the Routt County Sheriff's Office and serves as the central holding location for law-enforcement agencies in the county, including local police departments. People booked after local sheriff or police arrests normally enter this facility once they are committed to sheriff custody.

The official county page says the detention center houses inmates and pretrial detainees committed to the custody of the sheriff. The jail includes separate areas for male and female detainees, minimum, medium, and maximum security housing, dormitory-style housing, and single-cell housing. Food service, medical care, and educational programming are provided to people held there.

The official Routt County Detention Center page shows the local jail's address, capacity, role, and jail phone numbers.

The county page is the correct facility source for local custody facts, even though it does not provide a public online roster.

Routt County Detention Population

The official detention page states that the facility is designed to accommodate a maximum of 56 inmates and/or detainees. A Routt County inmate health-care proposal dated December 20, 2023 used a base average daily population of 20 inmates for pricing. Those are the best located official facility figures. No live current population dashboard was found.

Using the 20 ADP figure against the 56-person design capacity produces an estimated 35.7% occupancy. That is a calculation from source figures, not a current headcount. For live custody status, call the jail or use VINE rather than relying on an old population estimate.

Lookup Routt Detention Inmates

No official public Routt County online jail roster was located. Lookup for the Routt County Detention Center is therefore a chain of official fallbacks. The jail main line is the local route for current custody questions. VINE can provide custody notification. Sheriff Records handles releasable criminal-justice records. The Colorado Judicial docket helps with hearings and charges after arrest.

1. Call the jail main line at (970) 870-5509 for current custody questions involving Routt County Detention Center.
2. Use Routt County VINE or VINELink for custody status and notification registration.
3. Use Sheriff Records for booking-related records, reports, photos, media, or records checks that may be releasable.
4. Search the Routt County court docket for advisements, bond hearings, warrant-related hearings, and case numbers.
5. Switch to CDOC, BOP, or ICE when the person is no longer in local county jail custody.

Routt Detention Address Contact

The jail, Sheriff's Office, and court are clustered in the Shield Drive public-safety and court area of Steamboat Springs, but they are separate offices. Use the detention center address and phone for jail custody. Use Sheriff Records for records requests and the court for court documents or hearings.

Routt Detention Visitation

Routt County uses video visitation. Onsite public video visits are free, first-come, first-served, and limited to 30 minutes. Each inmate or detainee may receive two non-contact onsite video visits per week. Remote visits are scheduled through CIDNET, available all week, paid at scheduling, non-refundable, and subject to approval and monitoring.

The official Routt County visitation page shows the video-visit rules and CIDNET scheduling path.

The screenshot reinforces that Routt visitation is not contact visitation in a public visiting room; it is video-based and rule-heavy.

Routt Detention Mail Money

Mail for someone at Routt County Detention Center should use the jail mailing address and include the inmate or detainee name. Incoming and outgoing mail is inspected for contraband, and nonlegal or nonmedical mail may be read. Legal and medical mail should be clearly marked and come from appropriate professional sources. Paperback books may be accepted only if sent directly from a publisher or authorized online vendor.

Commissary orders are delivered once per week, usually Wednesday. Family and friends can fund commissary so an inmate can purchase phone data, but they cannot buy data for direct transfer to the inmate.

Routt Detention Booking Intake

Booking at the Routt County Detention Center follows local arrest and transport into sheriff custody. Detention staff handle booking and classification, security, medical services, and transportation. Intake can include search and property handling, identification, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment. The handbook applies to all people held there, including pretrial detainees, convicted subjects, and subjects held for other entities.

Classification matters because the facility includes minimum, medium, and maximum security housing, separate male and female areas, dormitory-style housing, and single cells. If bond is set and posted, Routt County says the defendant will be released within six hours after bond has been posted unless a delay exists. Bond issues, weekend bond hearings, and first appearances are tied to court processes, not a public jail roster.

Bond Release at Routt Detention

Routt County publishes bond-posting options for the jail. Bond may be posted by cash or credit card at the jail, cashier's check or money order payable to the 14th Judicial District, any state-licensed bondsman, or online payment. Staff do not recommend a specific bondsman. The county also posts Colorado money-bond rights based on C.R.S. 16-4-102.

Routt Detention Programs Care

The facility provides food service, medical care, and educational programming. The inmate handbook describes medical requests through tablet or wall terminal, emergency notification to a deputy, nurse screening, medical or dental provider appointments by priority, request forms known as kites, and a grievance process. Essential health care services are not denied based on ability to pay, although allowed charges may be deducted from inmate accounts.

Routt County also has documented behavioral-health work. A March 2024 local report described Jail Based Behavioral Services as a model program and reported that 30-40% of people in custody chose to use the services. A May 2025 BOCC packet funded Medication Assisted Treatment and counseling activity through JBBS grant revenue.