United States · Colorado · Denver
Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center
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Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center is a county jail located in Denver County, Colorado. Security level: Minimum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Colorado
Security level
Minimum
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
The Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center was designed with the aim of housing inmates in a more humane and safe environment.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project22 Mar 2019
at came before were glass bubbles, so inmates created their own hierarchies.” In November, Greene and Kaplan were part of a group of city officials who flew to Denver to tour the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, a jail that Greene’s firm helped design, a decade ago, with the aim of housing inmates in a more humane and safe environment. From her hotel, Kaplan could see the jail, which stands
Data completeness
62%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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/van-cise-simonet-detention-center
"Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/van-cise-simonet-detention-center.
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title = {Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-10-21}
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