Status open Phone +1 719-267-3548 Opened 2003 | Security class medium Capacity 1,894 | |
Location 6564 CO-96Olney Springs, Colorado Managed by Corrections Corporation of America Similar Arkansas Valley Correctio, Parole Board, Pueblo County Detention, Crowley County Sheriff Off, Otero County Sheriff | ||
The Crowley County Correctional Facility is a medium-security, privately owned and operated state prison for men located in Olney Springs, Crowley County, Colorado. Corrections Corporation of America runs it under contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections.
The facility opened in 2003 and houses 1,894 Colorado state inmates at medium security.
In 2004 the facility housed both Colorado inmates and out-of-state inmates under contracts with the Wyoming Department of Corrections and the Washington State Department of Corrections. The causes of a six-hour riot in July 2004 were put down partly to understaffing (only 47 employees on duty to supervise more than 1100 prisoners) and partly to the treatment of the Washington prisoners. A class-action suit was filed on behalf of 200 prisoners who had not joined in the riot, but who had been mistreated afterward. The suit resulted in a $600,000 settlement in 2013.