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Downtown Detention Center Custody

Downtown Detention Center is operated by the Denver Sheriff Department, the city and county jail agency for Denver County, Colorado. The facility is listed by the Sheriff contacts page at 490 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80204, with the main phone number 720-337-0400. It is a county and city jail detention facility, not a Colorado Department of Corrections prison and not a federal detention center. That distinction controls the search path: Denver Sheriff Inmate Search covers people here, while the CDOC Offender Search covers sentenced state prisoners.

The Downtown Detention Center is closely connected to the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center and the downtown court complex. Denver Pretrial Services states that defendants arrested and booked into Van Cise-Simonet on new pending criminal charges are assessed before initial advisement. That assessment can include an interview, criminal history checks, the Colorado Pretrial Assessment Tool, and additional tools for domestic violence or DUI cases. The jail record may show custody before the final court charge record is complete, so users should treat booking details and court filings as related but separate records.

Downtown Detention Center Population

Denver Sheriff public materials do not give a static rated capacity for Downtown Detention Center on the facility contact page. The research file instead points to Denver Sheriff dashboards and annual reports for current confined population and average daily population data. For that reason, a capacity number should not be treated as fixed unless it comes from an official Denver Sheriff data report. The same caution applies to a same-day housing count, because jail population changes as arrests, releases, court orders, and transfers happen.

Official annual reporting gives a better picture of how much movement passes through Denver Sheriff custody. The 2025 Denver Sheriff Annual Report lists 23,558 total bookings, an average age of 39, an average length of stay of 18 days, and an average of 65 releases per day across Denver Sheriff custody. Those are departmentwide measures. They should not be read as a Downtown Detention Center bed count, but they explain why a Denver County jail roster result can change between a search, a visit request, and a records request.

Downtown Detention Center Inmate Lookup

The official lookup route is Denver Sheriff Inmate Search. It searches people in Denver Sheriff custody by full or partial keywords, including last name, middle name, first name, booking number, race, facility, status, and CD number. Results can show last name, first name, middle name, age, sex, race, facility abbreviation, booking status, CD number, and booking number. If a person is in Denver County custody but does not appear, the official app tells users to call 720-913-3600.

A Denver Sheriff result is different from a CDOC prison profile. A person booked at DDC may later leave Denver Sheriff custody after release, bond, dismissal, sentence, transfer, or a hold from another agency. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, the Denver roster may no longer be the right place to search. For a broader roster walkthrough, the Denver County jail record process is covered in the jail inmate records page.

1. Open Denver Sheriff Inmate Search and enter a name, booking number, or CD number.
2. Use partial spelling if the exact name does not return a result.
3. Use the facility filter when it appears, then check for a DDC facility abbreviation.
4. Open the detail route by booking number and CD number if the app provides a result.
5. Call 720-913-3600 if the person should be in Denver custody but the public search does not locate them.

Downtown Detention Center Contact

Use the facility phone for immediate facility questions and the Denver Sheriff electronic records channel for formal jail records. Denver Sheriff research identifies the Civil Liabilities Unit as the public records unit for sheriff records. That unit accepts electronic requests through the official form, and Denver Sheriff states that telephone or social media records requests will be denied. For booking photos, the Sheriff visitation and media page routes requests to the Denver Police Department rather than treating DDC as a mugshot gallery.

Downtown Detention Center Visits

The Denver Sheriff visitation page states that Downtown Detention Center offers video visits only. In-person social visits are not available at DDC. All onsite and remote video visits must be scheduled through Securus. Visitors need an account, valid identification, and enough time to arrive early for onsite video visits. The Sheriff rules also warn that visits are recorded and monitored, minors must be supervised, and visitors may be subject to warrant checks.

The Denver Sheriff visitation screenshot below comes from the official visitation page and shows why DDC should not be treated the same as Denver County Jail. DDC uses video-only visiting, while the Smith Road jail has both video and in-person options.

Use the schedule tied to DDC, not a statewide prison schedule or another Denver facility schedule, because each facility has separate visit rules.

Downtown Detention Center Mail

Denver Sheriff research did not locate an official DDC-specific public fee table for commissary, phone pricing, or money deposits. The 2025 annual report does document a fully digital mail workflow across Denver Sheriff facilities. The report says digital mail reduced paper handling, improved screening consistency, and reduced safety risks. It also says tablets provide approved services such as secure messaging. That is enough to describe the digital communication direction, but not enough to publish a deposit vendor or fee that the official source did not confirm.

Downtown Detention Center Intake

For a new Denver County arrest, DDC and Van Cise-Simonet are part of the early custody path. A Denver Police arrest or other Denver-area arrest can lead to Denver Sheriff booking, public roster entry, pretrial assessment, first advisement, bond decision, and then release or continued housing. The booking record may include the facility, status, booking number, demographic fields, and charge or court detail in a profile. Court charges can change after prosecutors review the case, so a DDC booking charge should not be read as a final conviction.

The 2025 Denver Sheriff Annual Report also identifies facility-specific and departmentwide programs connected to DDC. The Housing Unit for Military Veterans launched at Van Cise-Simonet and was designed to house up to 64 men, confirm veteran status through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and provide veteran-focused programming and reentry support. DDC also appears in department health reporting, including medical assistant, nursing, and provider encounter counts. Those figures describe service activity, not a jail capacity or daily population number.

Booking

The jail intake event after arrest, with a booking number and custody record.

Pretrial

The stage before conviction or final case outcome, when bond and release conditions are reviewed.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release even when a Denver case changes.

Note: Confirm DDC custody, video visit status, and facility assignment before traveling because Denver jail housing can change quickly.