Colorado Department of Corrections (CO DOC)

The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) has endured for over 130 years. The DOC has a proud history of serving the citizens of Colorado by maintaining and enhancing public safety. Currently over 6,700 correctional professionals supervise more than 23,000 offenders, in secure prisons and in appropriate community placements.

All areas of the department are American Correctional Association (ACA) accredited and the Colorado DOC is the 14th state correctional system to earn ACA's Eagle award. The ACA sets the highest national standards and promotes the best correctional practices. The accreditation process offers the opportunity for the department to proactively evaluate operations and policies against national standards, remedy inefficiencies, and continuously ensure the highest quality of correctional programs and services.

The DOC is responsible for managing and operating 19 secure prison facilities and the Youthful Offender System (YOS). The facilities are designed to supervise offenders in five custody levels: minimum; minimum restrictive; medium; close; and administrative segregation. The YOS program is operated separately from the adult prison system by the Division of Adult Parole, Community Corrections and YOS (APCC).

The department is also responsible for the safe supervision of offenders in appropriate community placements. The APCC division oversees transitional offenders in community corrections programs, and offenders on parole. The division's professionals are specifically trained to ensure public safety by utilizing best correctional and evidence based practices to supervise and support offenders reintegrating back into the community.

Colorado Department of Corrections (CO DOC) – Visiting Rules

Colorado Department of Corrections (CO DOC) – Policies
Colorado Department of Corrections (CO DOC) – Inmate Education

Colorado Department of Corrections (CO DOC) Facilities: