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Colorado State Penitentiary
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Colorado State Penitentiary is a state prison located in Fremont County, Colorado. Rated capacity: 725. Reported population: 700. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Colorado State Penitentiary (commonly abbreviated CSP) is a Level V maximum security prison in the U.S. state of Colorado. The facility is part of the state's East Cañon Complex, together with six other state correctional facilities of various security levels.
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Capacity
725
Current population
700
Occupancy
97%
Year opened
1993
Closed 2009
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1993
Region
Colorado
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5148951)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Colorado State Penitentiary. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/colorado-state-penitentiary
"Colorado State Penitentiary." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/colorado-state-penitentiary.
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