Washington County Justice Center Jail Overview
The Washington County Justice Center is the only official local detention facility identified for Washington County in the research materials. It serves as the local county jail for arrests made in Washington County and for people accepted into jail custody by the Washington County Sheriff's Office, whose official homepage identifies Sheriff Robbie Furrow as sheriff. The Justice Center holds people who are waiting for court, people serving local jail sentences, people waiting for transport, and people held for another agency when the jail accepts that hold. No separate city jail, regional jail, work-release annex, state prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention center was identified inside Washington County.
The facility should be treated as a county jail, not as a state prison. That distinction matters for every Washington County Justice Center custody search. A person arrested in Akron or elsewhere in Washington County may be booked locally first, but a person sentenced to state prison is searched through the Colorado Department of Corrections after transfer. Federal defendants and immigration detainees may involve the U.S. Marshals Service, BOP, or ICE. Those systems can overlap with a local booking, but they are not the same as the Washington County jail roster.
Washington County Justice Center Capacity
The sheriff pages reviewed did not publish a live jail count or a current sheriff-stated bed capacity for the Washington County Justice Center. The best sourced numerical material in the research is the Vera Institute's county dataset, which reports fields for jail rated capacity and jail population over recent years. These are dataset fields, not a daily head count from the jail lobby or a current booking screen.
| Year | Vera rated capacity field | Vera jail population field |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 240.5 | 89.5 |
| 2024 | 240 | 117 |
| 2023 | 240.75 | 80 |
| 2022 | 170 | 111.75 |
| 2021 | 220 | 118.5 |
| 2020 | 220 | 112.75 |
The county numbers should not be read as a promise that the Justice Center has a specific number of open beds on the day someone calls. Bookings, releases, bond orders, court transports, medical holds, classification needs, and outside-agency holds can change the working jail population faster than public datasets update.
Washington County Justice Center Inmate Lookup
No official online Washington County Justice Center jail roster, public mugshot gallery, or recent booking page was located in the sheriff or county sources reviewed. The most reliable first step for a current custody question is the Justice Center or Sheriff's Office phone route. For records that cannot be released by phone, ask about a Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act request through the Sheriff's Office.
- Start with the official Justice Center contact page or call the main Justice Center and Sheriff phone route.
- Give the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency or court case number if known.
- Ask whether the person is currently in Washington County Justice Center custody, released, transferred, held for transport, or held for another agency.
- If staff cannot release details by phone, ask for the current sheriff records request process for booking records, booking photos, bond entries, and release dates.
- Check CoCourts or the Washington County court clerk for filed charges after an arrest, because court charges can differ from jail booking charges.
VINELink is also useful when the goal is notification rather than a full record. The Colorado VINELink portal may support custody-status notices for participating agencies. VINELink is not a substitute for a sheriff booking record, and it may not show every detail a family member wants, but it can help track release or transfer notices where available.
Note: A person can move from Washington County jail to court, release, CDOC, another county, federal custody, or ICE before a public search catches up.
Washington County Justice Center Contact
Use the Justice Center contact route for current custody questions, jail service questions, and records routing. The official research did not capture separate public lobby hours or a distinct booking-desk number, so avoid assuming that records staff and detention staff keep the same schedule. Call before driving if the goal is an in-person records request, visitation issue, property question, or bond question.
Washington County Justice Center
26861 Highway 34
Akron, CO 80720
970-345-2244
Call for current custody, visitor instructions, records routing, and public counter availability.
Washington County Sheriff's Office
Operator of the county jail
970-345-2244
Ask for the current submission method for jail records and CCJRA requests.
Washington County Justice Center Visitation
The sheriff site includes an official inmate visitation page, but the research did not capture exact visiting days, time blocks, vendor rules, or scheduling fees. That means the facility page should route visitors to the official page and to the Justice Center phone line, not invent a schedule. Visitation can change for court transport, lockdown, staffing, holidays, weather, discipline, or safety needs.
| Visitor need | Best source | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Current schedule | Official visitation page or call the Justice Center | Day, time, sign-up method, and arrival cutoff |
| Visit type | Official visitation page | In-person, video, remote, or suspended status |
| Identification | Justice Center staff | Government photo ID and age rules for minors |
| Dress and property | Official visitation page or lobby staff | Clothing rules, prohibited items, phones, bags, and keys |
| Special access needs | Call before travel | Accessible entrance, mobility route, or accommodation request |
Visitors should not bring weapons, contraband, recording devices, or unnecessary property into a jail lobby. When a person is newly booked, housed for another agency, or waiting for transport, staff may need to confirm whether that person is eligible for visits before a visitor travels to Akron.
Washington County Justice Center Mail and Money
The sheriff publishes service pages for inmate mail, inmate phone service, and inmate finances. Those pages are the best source for current format rules, vendor details, deposit methods, and restrictions. The research did not capture a specific mail vendor, phone vendor, commissary fee schedule, or exact mail-address format, so the safest route is to check the official service page before sending funds, photos, books, packages, or other property.
| Service | Official route | Build-safe detail |
|---|---|---|
| Inmate mail-service page | Confirm naming format, address format, scanned mail rules, and prohibited items. | |
| Phone | Inmate phone-service page | Use the current official page for provider, account setup, rates, and call limits. |
| Money and commissary | Inmate finances page | Confirm deposit method, fees, refunds, and commissary timing before sending money. |
The official Washington County Sheriff's Office mail-service page is a matching service source in the image manifest.
Use that official mail page as the current rule source because incorrect format, missing names, banned content, or unsupported packages can delay or block delivery.
The official Washington County Justice Center inmate finances page is also a matching service source from the manifest.
Money-service rules are especially time sensitive. Deposit vendors, fee language, account posting times, and refund rules can change, so the official finance page should be checked before a payment is made.
Washington County Justice Center Booking
Washington County-specific intake steps were not published in detail in the official Justice Center materials reviewed. A Colorado county jail booking usually begins with transport to the jail, identity checks, warrant and hold review, property inventory, fingerprinting, booking photographs, medical and safety screening, charge or warrant entry, and classification for housing. Classification means the jail's internal assessment for custody level, safety needs, and housing placement.
Booking charges are not always the final court charges. The jail may receive arrest charges or warrant information first, while the prosecutor and court create the formal criminal case later. For the record path after booking, use the Washington County jail inmate records page for custody and booking questions, then use court records for filed charges, hearings, warrants, and dispositions.
- Booking
- Jail intake after arrest, including identity, property, safety, charge, and custody processing.
- Bond
- A court-set release condition. A bond amount does not end the criminal case.
- Hold or detainer
- A flag from another court or agency that can keep a person in custody even after local bond is addressed.
- First appearance
- The early court hearing where rights, probable cause, bond, and next steps may be addressed.
Washington County Jail Custody Limits
The Washington County Justice Center is not the lookup point for every person with a Washington County connection. If a person has been sentenced to a Colorado prison term, use the CDOC inmate search. If a person is in federal custody after a federal case, use the BOP inmate locator once the person is in BOP custody. If immigration detention is suspected, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
| Custody question | First place to check | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Arrest today or yesterday in Washington County | Justice Center phone route | The jail is the current local custody source. |
| Charges filed after arrest | CoCourts or Washington County clerk | Court charges can differ from jail booking entries. |
| Sentenced to state prison | CDOC inmate search | CDOC tracks sentenced state prisoners after transfer. |
| Federal sentence or BOP custody | BOP inmate locator | Federal custody is separate from the county jail. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | ICE custody is a separate federal immigration system. |
Washington County Justice Center Directions
The Justice Center address is on the Highway 34 corridor near Akron, so most visitors should plan travel around highway access rather than urban transit. From east or west, follow U.S. Highway 34 toward Akron and use the posted facility address. From the south, U.S. Highway 63 and local county roads connect toward Akron and Highway 34. From the north, use the county-road network toward Akron before connecting with Highway 34.
No official visitor-lot map, parking fee, fixed-route transit instruction, or separate ADA entrance description was captured in the sheriff materials reviewed. Confirm visitor parking before arrival. If an accessible entrance, wheelchair route, interpreter issue, medication drop-off rule, or other accommodation affects the visit, call the Justice Center before travel.
Note: Confirm custody, visit eligibility, parking, and entry rules with the Justice Center before driving to the facility.
Washington County Justice Center PREA
The sheriff site includes a PREA page for the Justice Center. PREA means the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a federal law and standards framework focused on preventing, detecting, reporting, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement settings. The research did not capture a current PREA audit, so the page should be used for the sheriff's current reporting route and policy context rather than for unsupported accreditation claims.
Family members, attorneys, and other concerned people should use the official PREA instructions or call the facility if there is an urgent safety concern. For emergencies, use emergency contact routes rather than waiting on a records request. For non-emergency records about a jail incident, ask the Sheriff's Office how to submit a narrow CCJRA request and what information can be released while an incident is under review.