2 part review: Hmmm. Where to start. When I was being arrested my GF said the word 'suicide'. NEVER do this to anybody, please. This started the protocol. Stripped naked and put in a bare cement, windowless, benchless, very cold 'holding cell' that only had a small grate in the corner to relieve myself. I was given a 'suicide' vest that was supposed to be held closed with Velcro straps, but they are rendered useless from years of use so you had to hold it closed with your hands to somewhat cover yourself when interacting with jail personnel and being walked through the jail to your cell when you're finally processed in (no idea how long this lasted because there is no clue as to how much time had passed). No, no underwear. Once in the cell, I now had a mat to be upon. The mat also had been rendered flat by years of use, think of a very short knapped piece of pad-less carpet covered by a deteriorated plastic tarp. Only the very outside edges had any thickness left. No toilet paper until the night shift got there as the daytime guards ignored my polite pleas. Who on Earth thought this would be helpful, in any way, to anyone whom actually is suicidal? I did have a 5' square woolen old Army style blanket to cover my nakedness and try to stay warm (hint: use it diagonally to cover your feet and most of your body). As I understand it, 90% of the jail's population has no pillow. Sounds like a whiney gripe, but try to sleep on your floor (don't forget to cover it with a ratty plastic tarp first, no sheets allowed) without one and tell me how that goes. 4 days without an option to shower or brush my teeth. Arresting officers 'declined' to bring my glasses against the pleas of myself and my GF so I couldn't read anything, including the paperwork I had to sign. Then things started to look up for me. I got a uniform. Don't know if it's part of the punishment process but the shoes are made of foam and bright orange crock-like things. :-D Food: comes in 2 flavors, tasteless and vile. Always cold. No salt or pepper allowed. I have no idea what horrible thing happened to whomever planned and cooked the meals but my prayers go out for you (all'ya'all). Very much have the impression that someone is pocketing a lot of coin on the cost of each meal. On the court side, I was impressed, very favorably. I was 'released' and put back on probation at 8:15am on Thursday. Arapahoe County wanted to bring me to court as well. I brought this up in court at the end and was told, "Don't worry about it, call this number and you'll be out by noon." By the Judge. The number I was given does not accept calls from the jail. I had to wait until I had dayroom privileges to try as you'll NEVER be able to make a toll free phone call, for any reason, even if instructed by the Judge to do so. I asked about this and was told to fill out a 'kite' form. This I did and it was promptly ignored no matter how many times or whom I asked. I had to get help to dial the phone and read the number on the card from fellow inmates because I can't see anything without my glasses. By Friday my GF managed to set up a very expensive account to be able to accept my calls (someone is banking coin on this too). She came and posted bail for Arapahoe County first thing Saturday morning. So I only had to stay an extra 2 days for no reason, other than the inability to make a non-collect phone call. Bail bonds places do NOT accept the phone calls either. Day-shift deputies are mirthless, surly people whom are unhelpful if at all possible. My poor cellmate was withdrawing from heroin and twitched horribly. He spilled his juice cup all over himself and blanket. After asking the deputy 4 times for new clothes and a blanket, I overheard her telling another guard but..."don't be in a hurry about it." Evening and nightshift deputies treat you as if you are almost human. Yeah, I understand it's jail and there's always someone banging on their cell door in the throws of withdrawal screaming, "LET ME OUT!" over and over (and after all, if they let them out, it would wreck the entire idea of jail) but I think most prisoners ask for reasonable things like a paper spoon to eat with, tp, ect. Someone in the medical department DID get me an oxygen machine after a few days which I need. Thanks to whomever that was! read more

Absolutely terrible. The food was horrific--no surprise there--but I do want to give credit where it's due: Officer B. She was amazing and always went out of her way to help, unlike most of the other officers. That's where the positives end. I truly pray for any woman who ends up here. Medical care is practically nonexistent. You will be ignored, you will suffer, and your health will decline while you're inside. The so-called mental health services were the worst. My problems were brushed aside completely until I threatened a lawsuit, and even then, I never actually received meaningful care. Other counties manage their jails far better, with at least basic dignity and accountability. Jefferson County, by comparison, is a disgrace. This place is by far the worst!! read more

okay so its jail, I get it, its supposed to suck. However the practices at JeffCo are to put it very bluntly extremely cruel and corrupt. Their selection of literature is completely and entirely BORING and most books to be selected are on a 5th grade reading level. The food was absolutely terrible and I have absolutely zero confidence in its nutritional value. If you happened to get placed in solitary, they make a complete and total effort to make sure you are unable to sleep through it. JeffCo COs have a very obvious "good cop bad cop" mentality, especially in group D, in which during the day many COs would allow in an extremely friendly way things that the evening COs would not in an extremely aggressive and cruel way. The tap water is completely unfiltered and, forgetting the term, inmates that help out with services after they've been served sentences are given completely unfair and unnecessary privileges that affect other inmates. While this may be more of an issue the county itself rather than the jail, judges discussing bond are running a complete and total SCAM on the inmates, trying to rake in as much money as they possibly can for the state. And where does that money go? into lazy and incompetent workers on I70 and towards CDOT who does absolutely nothing to support transportation in frontrange and deep mountain areas. They immediately put suicidal inmates into a special housing unit which is completely dehumanizing and if anything amplifies suicidal thoughts. Many COs will be as vague as possible about extremely simple questions that could be important to the inmate. It is an absolutely terrible facility that needs to be re-evaluated by a third party immediately. The inmates are NOT treated as innocent until proven guilty, the food isnt just bad, it is downright disgusting. In many incidents I've witnessed, COs will actuslly let fights PLAY OUT until a "winner" could be named before action is taken. If you are moved "upstairs" before your trial is complete, gang politics go completely unaddressed and cause major issues for small matter incidents. All in all, I understand that jail is supposed to suck, however the county itself is totally running a revolving circle of keeping people inside the system no matter how much they try to better themselves. Arm yourselves, stay way from large cities, scalp the police and eat the rich. read more

The staff is halfway decent but the equipment suck nail clippers have rust on it have to wait 30 days to get haircut even when you have court the clippers halfway work sanitation has hair in it where's all this money's going that these jails are getting I know it's a jail. It's not supposed to be very nice to be in but at least be sanitary. You deal with human beings and you can get somebody sick that way. read more

Food was terrible but yeah it's a jail so I deserve it. They treated me like crap but I deserve it. If they made me feel more like crap I would have given a 5 stars. read more

My husband is currently doing work release here in the jail. From what I hear it's ok for a jail. They allow him To sign out and go to work,the store the hospital ect. Only catch is he needs to call Every time he leaves and Every time he moves locations. I've been able to send him mail and we've been able to see each other and spend a few minutes to an hour in the stores together. If you don't already have a job they provide you with a low paying job I think his is 12$ an hour but they charge him "rent" wich basically means he has to pay to stay in the work release program. While he was in Soldiery confinement he told me that other inmates were constantly screaming and that an inmate who was obviously mentally ill was allowed to bang on his door for up to 15 minutes screaming for a bag of chips. They don't do in person visits so we only visit online. The jail uses a system called securis where we pay money to have phone calls and video chats ect. He's allowed to have soaps and deodorant and his own shoes and clothes witch allows him to feel better I guess. the work release program feels like another way for the jail to keep his money and keep profiting off him even more while he's incarcerated. Just my opinion. Some deputies seem to be kinder than others. Example: one let us have a 45 minute lunch together and a separate deputy hounded him for taking 30 minutes at target. Strip searches upon re- entry to the facility seem to be completely random and based on almost nothing. I hear that the showers are completely unsanitary and being imprisoned with a lot of other people during Covid-19 is difficult. My review is, if you can avoid going to jail or are expecting to go into work release here It's decent but still horrible enough you know the reality of what your situation is. It's still very difficult and most inmates wake up at 4:30am to take the light rail/ buses. Passes are not provided by the prison. I hear inmates can play Cards, Volleyball and basketball but go into a 1 hour lockdown during shift change at 7/8pm. During this time inmates are expected to stay in their cells, aren't allowed to make phone calls or really do anything but sit. He says people tend to keep to themselves and be unproblematic because they all have the same goal; staying in the work release program. Getting sent "upstairs" seems to be the worst punishment imaginable as that is the actual prison where inmates are locked in a cell 20 hours a day. I've seen reviews where the prison part seems atrocious and not worth any argument or lie you could tell the work Release guys. read more

Jefferson County Jail - This is what visits look like on site. - Jails & Prisons Near Me - Golden, Colorado

Terrible place, would give a -1000000 if I could. They have no respect for anybody but their own. They joke and laugh the whole time like they don't have a job to do let alone anything serious to be doing. They don't have any regard for your items nor do they let you know that your money will be used to book yourself or that it'll be then transferred to a fee-able debit card. Labeled me homeless(when they already had my address on file) They are unorganized and put people in random cell rooms one of which had pentagrams and swastika signs and I'm ethic. They didn't let me have ONE CALL & was there 12+ hours. They don't tell you where to go so you are literally walking around a jail all by yourself until someone asks you what you are doing or you see someone to ask for help. They lost my prescription or really didn't care to locate it so I had to call to track it down and they sent another prescription to the next police station. Went in for a court date and they didn't even get my birthdate right. Complete waste of human competency and a blatant shithole for anyone from a traffic ticket to a hard criminal. All they care about is money and each head that comes through the door is a check. If you want a more detailed description just watch the Stanford experiment it's not to far away. read more

Food was terrible. Beds were dirty. Service was substandard with extended waiting times. Do not recommend a visit there.

Don't ever go there, or ever opt for work release to the judge if you don't already have a job because you will be sent to a day labor place of your choice, Lakewood, or Denver. But if you don't get sent out for the day you have to go back to the work release part of the jail. I mean it is nice because you can wear your normal cloths in the work release jail and shoes, you can buy shampoo and stuff to make you smell good and feel clean at the store, like sign yourself out of the work release jail and go to kingsoopers down the street from the jail. But your rent has to be two weeks paid in advance before you can do any of that. But when you get assigned work release from the judge you go back to minimum, or medium, or where ever you are in the jail before you go down, you wait a few days or one depending how fast you get sent down, once down there you get to provide them a few References to go home for a few hours to get tooth brushes and what ever, make a quick trip to the store to get a few items to take to jail with you I.e. alarm clock, stick of deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, slippers for the showers, a must if you don't want foot fungus from those dirty showers, cloths for work, steel toe boots because if you work day labor you will work construction and it's a must, so Wal-Mart would be your best bet to get everything because they also carry steel toe boots and jackets, gloves, and warm cloths if you do work release in the winter. I remember getting up at 4:30 am to check out to work at day labor to catch the light rail that morning and when I got to my locker to get my phone and cigs before we walk the long sidewalk to to the light rail it was like 40 below and my fingers were frozen and had to keep moving my fingers because it was soo cold, so if you work day labor in the winter get warm cloths because you will freeze. It's best if you don't talk to the guards or even let then know you, really, just keep Your head down and do your thing. They are freaking jerks when it comes to you walking behind them on accident, they will throw you to the ground, one old guard tried to do that to me but could not because he was too old to even be a guard, lol, so he stopped trying and said don't walk behind me again, lol. Yes you can smoke and chew when your outside away from the work release area. There are a couple of tricks ill tell you if you end up there, one, if you don't have much cash or cell phone and want to call someone you can sign yourself out to the hospital, like act like your not feeling good and want to see a doctor, but make sure it's something you can pull off, because they can see through b.s. I signed out to the hospital one too many times and got sent back up to the jail, I had to wait two weeks before I got sent back down to work release. I got lucky I was there before they shut down the visiting windows and turned it all to video visits, so I got to see my wife and daughter in the window. They do have washer dryers and some inmates will be nice enough to wash some of your cloths, just remember to return the favor some how, I washed a few people cloths and they gave me sweets and stuff from there canteen. Make your bed like you are trying to impress a military sergeant because you will come back to your bed flipped over and belongings thrown around. So make sure you put everything nice and neat under your bunk and in your locker. I understand you 're there to do time the judge gave you, but the way they treat some people over others is bs. I seen a dude get popped for meth on a drug test and they gave him a second chance, then another guy shaves his head with a jail razor and they send him back up to jail, I think the guy they gave a second chance to was always on time with rent and paid a lot, that's why. Also I had suspicion the guards were dipping in the 're n't the inmates paid from there jobs, one gaurd got fired for it from what I remember. One gaurd threatened to beat me up and punch me when I got sent up the one time, wife called call the sergeant and told him what I said and he came up yelling at me saying I was a liar, blah, blah, blah. I won t say the name of the prick who threatened me but I didn't see him there for a while and he was always nice to me after that so he must have got into some trouble over it. But that place sucks and they should treat you better, I mean, your not there for murder. One more thing before I go is that they rattle your nerves before you even get back to your pod from work. They have you wait in waiting room when you return there from work, then they say how many ever can go back to the room to get patted down and checked, they make you take everything out of your pockets put on a concrete bench then make you go to a room and take off your clothes and shoes socks and bend over to show your crack and balls to make sure you didn't smuggle anything in from work, you have to do this daily after work when you return to work release. read more