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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 ...
Since it was built in 1984, the Pitkin County Jail has never needed to house a person in a wheelchair. “We’ve had people in wheelchairs in (the) booking (area),” said Jail Administrator Don Bird. “But ...
Pitkin County commissioners Wednesday indicated they were willing to provide short-term funding for a program that monitors criminal defendants out of jail on bond. The pretrial services program ...
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 ...
A Las Vegas true-crime media company and the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office are in a court fight over the status of bodycam ...
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 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 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 ...
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