Teller County Jail (ICE)

Teller County Jail (ICE) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 719-687-7776

This facility is for adult inmates.

The Teller County Jail (ICE) is a medium-security detention center located at 288 County Road 29 Divide, CO which is operated locally by the Teller County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Teller County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Divide Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.

Teller County Detention Center – Immigration Detainee Locator

If you need information about a detainee that is housed at this facility, you may call (719) 687-7770 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. When you call, please have the individual’s biographical information ready, including first, last and hyphenated names, any aliases he or she may use, date of birth and country of birth.

Detainees cannot receive incoming calls. If you need to get in touch with a detainee to leave an urgent message, you must call (719) 687-7770 and leave the detainee’s full name, alien registration number and your name and telephone number where you can be reached. The detainee will be given your message.

visitation Info

Teller County Detention Center (ICE) – Friends and Family Visits

Schedule:  Personal visiting for inmates, not in disciplinary detention, will be permitted on scheduled posted days.  Disciplinary detention inmates must make a request to the Jail Sergeant for regular visits.

Frequency:  Inmates may be allowed up to two (2) visiting sessions per day, depending on the backlog of visits that day.  Each individual visit is limited to thirty (30) minutes.

Visiting Rules:  Visitors are subject to the following rules:

• Visitors must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.  An adult parent or guardian must accompany children under the age of eighteen (18). No more than two (2) children with parent/guardian allowed to visit at one time, and only if space is available.
• Visitors will be asked to provide photo identification with correct address.
• Visitors must contact the control officer and announce their name and who they wish to visit.
• No more than one visitor may visit an inmate at any particular time in the visitor’s booth.
• When a visitor has children with them they will use the attorney non-contact visiting area when possible. 
• Inmates and visitors will conduct themselves appropriately at all times.  Visitors who are intoxicated or acting out of order will not be permitted to visit.  When an inmate or visitor does not behave properly, the officer will terminate the visit and have the inmate returned to his/her cell.
• Visitors will leave the visiting area when told to do so by the officer at the end of the visiting period.

Attorney Visits

Legal representatives of detainees are authorized to visit their clients during the following hours:

Attorneys, members of the criminal justice system, and counselors, will be allowed between 8:30 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., excluding meal times, lock downs, etc. 

Attorneys, members of the criminal justice system, and or counselors that wish a contact visit with any inmate, must call and schedule that official visit. 

A list of pro bono (free) legal organizations will be posted in all detainee housing units and other appropriate areas.  This list shall be updated quarterly. If a detainee wishes to see a representative or paralegal from that organization, it is the detainee’s responsibility to contact them for an appointment.

Consular Visits

Consular officials may meet with their detained nationals at any time.  It is requested that prior arrangements be made with the ICE Supervisory Deportation Officer to the extent possible, and that consular officials bring appropriate credentials when they come to the facility. The ICE Supervisory Deportation Officer for this facility can be reached at (719) 586-3002

Clergy Visits

See Attorney Visits above for hours.

Visiting Restrictions

• All family or other social visits are Non-contact.
• No firearms or weapons of any kind are permitted in the facility.
• If visitors are or appear to be intoxicated, visitation will not be allowed.
• All visitors are subject to search while in the facility.
• Visitors are not allowed to pass or attempt to pass any items to detainees.
• Visitors are not allowed to carry any items into the visitation area.
• No food; No gum; No drinks; No smoking; No loitering in or near the Video Visitation Center; No animals permitted in the Criminal Justice Center or Visitation Center except for trained service animals.
• Only necessary items may be brought into the building. Extra items should be secured in your vehicle or left at home.
• Proper Government issued identification is required to visit. Proper identification must include your full name, a photo and date of birth.  If we can not ensure your identity, we will not allow you to visit in our facility.
• Visitors exhibiting loud disruptive behavior or abusive language will be required to leave the facility and forfeit the remainder of their allotted visitation time.
• Visits will be limited to three visitors to include children.

General Procedures

• When a visitor arrives at the facility to visit, they will notify control as to who they wish to visit. Control officers will log visitor and inmate name.
• An officer will escort the inmate to the visiting area.
• An officer shall require the visitor to produce an ID and fill out a visitor’s pass to be attached to the inmates file.
• A booking officer will keep visual supervision on the visiting area.
• At the conclusion of the visit, the officer will advise the visitors to leave the visiting area and then escort the inmate(s) back to their respective housing areas.
• It is up to the inmate to notify his/her visitors of any changes in the visiting times and dates.

Search Procedures (prior to or during all visitations)

All individuals requesting admittance to the facility or the visitation area are subject to a pat-down search of their person, an inspection of their belongings, and a metal scan search. Individuals refusing to cooperate with a reasonable search will not be admitted. No firearms or weapons of any kind are permitted. No electronic devices (cell phones, pagers, radios, etc.) are permitted in the secure areas of this facility.