Ten Pitkin County inmates who were being housed in the Eagle County jail returned to Aspen earlier this week, following the completion of safety improvements to the jail’s facilities. The upgrades ...

The IGA was set to expire in December 2023. “As a result of your re-assessment of the Pitkin County Jail,” Vallario’s email to Buglione said, “the IGA regarding the housing of Pitkin County Detainees ...

With new state standards for county jails coming in summer 2026, the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office is readying new proposals for a major jail overhaul. The jail, first built in 1984 ...

Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario said Monday that mounting costs and lack of progress toward building a new jail in Pitkin County led him to sever a courtesy agreement to house Pitkin inmates in ...

A Woody Creek woman who recently had been found incompetent to stand trial after a long history of theft and drunken driving died by suicide Sunday nigh inside the Pitkin County Jail, an official ...

A Pitkin County Jail inmate charged earlier this month with using a smuggled cellphone to text his family also was sanctioned last spring for having sex with a female inmate, Sheriff Joe DiSalvo said ...

An extension cord used by a prisoner to commit suicide in the Pitkin County Jail in Colorado was left behind from a previous inmate and should have been removed from her cell, reported The Aspen ...

A former inmate of the Pitkin County Jail who is accused of making threats to local government officials is in custody in Colorado Springs. Andrew Johnston, 27, was arrested Wednesday after the Pitkin ...

A Pitkin County jail inmate allegedly broke off a sprinkler head at the jail causing flooding that that knocked out law enforcement communications and caused at least $50,000 in damage.

A Las Vegas true-crime media company and the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office are in a court fight over the status of bodycam ...

the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies said around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, they got a request to check the welfare of Hunter Hyde, 28. Hyde's coworkers told deputies he did not show up to ...

settling a lawsuit brought by the parents of a 26-year-old woman who died pleading for medical help while detoxing from heroin in the Washington County jail. Madaline Pitkin died on April 24 ...