Jackson County Jail Inmate Roster

Jackson County Jail Overview

Jackson County Jail is operated by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in Walden. It is a small rural county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or large regional detention campus. Official sources identify one local detention facility for Jackson County, and the facility map should not be expanded with prisons outside the county. The jail holds people arrested in Jackson County, pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, court holds, and people awaiting transfer when applicable.

The jail and sheriff functions are tied to the Walden government complex on LaFever Street. Jackson County Combined Court and the District Attorney's Walden office use the same street address area, but those offices have separate jobs. The sheriff handles custody, booking records, mail, communications, public records requests, and bond payment channels. The court handles hearings and court records after an arrest. The prosecutor reviews law-enforcement allegations and files criminal charges.

Jackson County Jail Capacity

The best official capacity source is the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice, Office of Research and Statistics jail-population data under HB19-1297 and C.R.S. 17-26-118. The state data marks Jackson County as a county that operates a jail. In 2025 Q3, the official CSV reported 4 beds, operational capacity of 4, 15 snapshot inmates, 15 bookings in the prior quarter, and 0 deaths in the prior quarter.

The same 2025 Q3 row reports an average daily population field of 0, even though the snapshot and bookings fields are nonzero. That should be treated as a data-quality gap, not as proof that Jackson County Jail had no daily jail population. The ORS dashboard warns that submissions can be incomplete or contain agency notes, and Jackson County's small size makes each reported row more sensitive to missing fields and timing.

Jackson County Jail Inmate Lookup

No official sheriff-hosted public roster, current-bookings page, mugshot gallery, or searchable inmate profile was located in the official Jackson County Sheriff's Office pages reviewed. The official Jackson County sheriff jail page focuses on inmate communication, HomeWAV, mail, remote bail, jail fees, and bail-bonds contacts. For that reason, an inmate lookup for Jackson County Jail should lead with the fallback chain instead of promising an online roster that the sheriff does not publish.

1. Call the Jackson County Sheriff's Office and jail line at 970-723-4242 to ask whether the person is currently in custody.
2. If in-person help is needed, use the sheriff counter at 396 LaFever Street during posted public office hours.
3. Use the sheriff public records request form for releasable booking, incident, or jail records that are not online.
4. Check Colorado Judicial docket search for upcoming hearings after an arrest, but do not treat the docket as a roster.
5. Use CDOC Offender Search if the person has been sentenced or transferred to state prison.
6. Use VINELink Colorado for custody-status notification when a participating record is available.

Federal and immigration custody use different systems. The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present. ICE ODLS is used for immigration detention and can require an A-number or biographical details. Jackson County Jail was not identified as a federal prison or ICE over-72-hour detention facility, so those locators are fallback systems for noncounty custody, not substitutes for the sheriff's jail line.

Jackson County Jail Records

The sheriff's public records request form, linked from the Jackson County Sheriff's Office services and forms page, is the official local fallback for booking records, arrest reports, incident reports, and jail records that are not posted online. The form asks for the date of occurrence or accident, case number, officer name, type of record requested, requester signature, printed name, date, contact number, and mailing address. It also includes pickup information for completed requests.

The form says a requester must allow a minimum of 3 days for the copy to be ready. Costs are assessed by the sheriff, and the requester is notified before records are delivered. Insurance-company requests must come from the insurance company directly and in writing. The form also warns that records may not be used to gain publicity or money, a point that aligns with Colorado limits on commercial use of criminal-justice records and booking photographs.

Jackson County Jail Contact

The jail's main public contact is the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Official pages show the physical address as 396 LaFever Street, Walden, CO 80480, with a close sheriff-homepage spelling variant of 396 Le Fever Street. The same phone number, 970-723-4242, is listed for the office, after-hours dispatch, and practical jail information line. Emergency calls still go to 911.

The county contact directory lists Dustin Weber as the current sheriff. A sheriff records-request PDF still bears an older sheriff name, which appears to be a stale form header rather than the current elected-office listing. Use the county directory for current sheriff identification and the sheriff's linked form for the request process.

Jackson County Jail Visitation

The official sheriff jail material emphasizes HomeWAV phone and video communication rather than publishing a detailed onsite visitation schedule. No official onsite visitor approval process, visitor ID rule, dress code, child-visitor rule, visit length, holiday rule, or lockdown rule was located in the reviewed sheriff pages. Call 970-723-4242 before traveling for any onsite visit question.

HomeWAV use starts when the inmate sends a friend request. The outside person accepts or denies the request, signs up, verifies by text or email, adds money if needed, selects Jackson County Jail in Colorado, selects the inmate, and follows the prompts. Calls and video may be monitored. Inappropriate behavior or language can lead to loss of privileges.

Jackson County Jail Mail Money

Inmate mail uses the sheriff's office mailing format, not the street address. The sheriff page did not publish a full banned-items list, book or magazine policy, postcard policy, legal-mail rule, or return-address rule. The sheriff's HomeWAV instructions are more detailed for phone and video use than for postal mail. Ordinary written correspondence should be verified by phone before mailing anything extra, especially photos, printed material, books, packages, or money instruments.

HomeWAV accounts may be funded by debit or credit card, and the sheriff instructions note that a prepaid Visa gift card may be used if the outside person does not have a debit or credit card. Phone and video funds are separate from bond money. Confirm any jail fee or commissary issue with the sheriff before sending payment.

Jackson County Jail Bond

The sheriff jail page links online bond pay and remote bail through AllPaid, and it also links a sheriff-hosted bail-bonds list for regional bail companies. A bond payment should never be made from a guess. First confirm that the person is at Jackson County Jail, that a payable bond has been set, that the bond amount is current, and that no other agency hold prevents release. The same phone number, 970-723-4242, is the practical starting point for those questions.

1. Confirm custody, case identity, and bond status with Jackson County Jail.
2. Ask whether the court has set cash, surety, PR, or no-bond status.
3. Ask whether a probation, parole, warrant, court, or outside-agency hold blocks release.
4. Use the sheriff's AllPaid remote bail link or ask whether in-person payment is available.
5. If using a bail agent, use the sheriff-hosted bail-bonds list and verify the exact case before paying fees.

Colorado ORS bond-compliance material explains statewide sheriff obligations to post money-bond rights notices, complaint information, and policies for people asking about bond. Those rules apply to sheriff offices that operate jails, including Jackson County as reported in the state jail data.

Jackson County Jail Booking

Jackson County does not publish a detailed jail booking manual. A typical rural Colorado jail intake involves arrest or court remand, identity checks, property handling, booking record creation, search and safety screening, and then custody, bond, release, or court movement. Colorado jail data rules require county jails to maintain data such as date of entrance, name, date of birth, age, race, ethnicity, gender, criminal charges by code section and jurisdiction, sentence term if sentenced, bond amount if set, and release date.

After booking, the case may move into Jackson County Combined Court. The court is at the same LaFever Street government complex, but its phone and court-record functions are separate from jail custody. County Court covers misdemeanors and traffic cases. District Court handles felonies and other higher-level matters. For the case path after booking, use Jackson County court records after jail arrest.

Directions to Jackson County Jail

Use 396 LaFever Street, Walden, CO 80480 for public-facing map and route planning. Official sources also show a close spelling variant, Le Fever, on the sheriff homepage. Walden is the county seat in a rural mountain county, and visitors often approach on Colorado State Highway 14 or Colorado State Highway 125 before turning toward the county government complex.

Official visitor parking details, public-transit routes, and jail-specific ADA entry instructions were not located in the sheriff materials reviewed. Confirm the route, public counter hours, and entry instructions before driving to Walden. Do not park in secured law-enforcement, staff, dispatch, or emergency-response areas unless staff directs it.

When Jackson County Jail Is Wrong

Some searches start with Jackson County Jail but belong in another custody system. A person sentenced to Colorado prison is searched through CDOC, not the county jail. Federal prisoners are searched through BOP. Immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. VINELink can help with custody-status notifications, but it is not a sheriff-owned roster and should be confirmed with the jail or originating agency.