Prowers County Jail Overview
Prowers County Jail is operated by the Prowers County Sheriff's Office at the sheriff and jail address in Lamar. Official county materials identify Captain Randy Morris as the Jail Administrator. His duties include daily operations, arranging work release, coordinating weekends, managing court sentences, and handling courtroom security. That local role matters because the facility is not just a holding room after arrest; it also supports court sentences, weekend custody, work-release movement, and courthouse security.
The jail is the only detention facility physically identified in official Prowers County materials. No separate Lamar city jail, regional jail, work-release annex, state prison, federal prison, or ICE facility in Prowers County was located in the official sources reviewed. People arrested by Lamar police or other local agencies may be booked into the county jail, while sentenced state prisoners later move into CDOC custody and federal or immigration detainees use different federal systems.
The official detention screenshot source is the Prowers County Sheriff's Office detention page.
The county detention page supplies the strongest local facility facts, including the named jail administrator, housing pods, work release, court sentences, and HomeWAV support.
Prowers County Jail Population
The best public-sector capacity source located for Prowers County Jail is the Colorado Legislative Council county-jail overview, citing a 2017 Colorado Counties, Inc. survey. That source listed 57 beds and a daily population of 46 to 50. The county did not publish a current live jail population dashboard or daily roster in the official pages reviewed, so the 2017 figures should be described as a historical benchmark.
Using those figures, the jail was operating at about 81 to 88 percent of rated capacity in that survey row. Current operations are also visible through the 2026 county budget, which includes jail salaries, prisoner meals, jail nursing service, medical supplies, monitoring lease, commissary lines, and prisoner-fee revenue. Those budget lines show active jail operations but do not give a current headcount.
Prowers County Jail Housing
The official detention page gives a specific housing description for a small county jail. It says Prowers County Jail is comprised of three main pods: a minimum/medium-security pod, a maximum-security pod, and a female pod. The female pod includes cells ranging from minimum through maximum security. Public pages did not publish individual housing assignments, classification factors, or a current pod count.
| Housing area | Official description | Public limits |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum/medium pod | General lower-security housing category | No public roster by pod found. |
| Maximum-security pod | Higher-security housing category | No public inmate-level classification list found. |
| Female pod | Female housing with minimum-through-maximum cells | No current female population count published. |
Look Up Prowers County Jail Inmates
No official online Prowers County Jail roster was located in the county or sheriff pages reviewed. The practical lookup route is direct contact first, then records requests for copies or historical bookings. Use the official sheriff number and address rather than a third-party roster claim. For current custody, ask whether the person is still held, has bond set, has gone to court, was released, or was transferred to another system.
- Call the Prowers County Sheriff's Office at 719-336-8050 for current custody questions.
- Use the jail lobby at 103 East Oak Street for holiday or after-hours law-enforcement and jail assistance.
- Provide full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, arresting agency, and case or warrant number if known.
- If the person is no longer in jail, use the sheriff records request process for booking folders or archived records.
- Search CDOC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink when transfer, sentence, federal custody, immigration custody, or notification is the issue.
Prowers County Jail Contact
The sheriff and jail are co-located at the East Oak Street address. Official sheriff pages list Sheriff Sam Zordel, Undersheriff Sam Fief, the main phone, fax, and email. The county CORA policy also lists the sheriff as the custodian for sheriff records, which matters for booking folders, jail reports, and booking-photo requests.
Prowers County Jail
103 East Oak Street
Lamar, CO 81052
719-336-8050
Fax: 719-336-7900
Sheriff records hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; holidays and after-hours assistance through the jail lobby.
The sheriff screenshot source is the Prowers County Sheriff's Office page.
The sheriff page confirms the official local contact point for jail and records routing.
Visit Prowers County Jail
Prowers County links its detention visitor portal to HomeWAV. The county detention page lists HomeWAV visitor support at 1-844-394-6639, with support hours Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturday through Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. HomeWAV says friends and family can create accounts, add funds, use video and voice calls, send messages, schedule visits, view availability, receive notifications, and use a mobile app.
| Visit or communication type | Known detail | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| HomeWAV video/voice/message | County links to HomeWAV and gives support hours. | Local schedule, costs, approval, and availability. |
| In-person lobby | Records page mentions jail lobby for after-hours or holidays. | Personal visit schedule, entrance, and ID rules. |
| Attorney visits | No public Prowers attorney schedule located. | Legal visit rules and after-hours process. |
Official sources did not publish a Prowers-specific visitation schedule, length, dress code, child-visitor rules, or local video-visit fee table. Confirm directly before travel or funding an account.
Prowers County Jail Mail Money
Official Prowers pages did not publish inmate mail format, accepted items, package rules, deposit vendor, kiosk details, money-order address, commissary cutoff, spend limits, or phone-rate table. The 2026 budget confirms a commissary/account function through jail commissary bank statement revenue and jail commissary bank account expense lines, but it does not publish public deposit mechanics.
| Service | Published detail | Instruction |
|---|---|---|
| No official mail policy located | Call the jail before sending mail and ask for the exact inmate-mail format. | |
| Phone/video/message | HomeWAV linked by county | Confirm local availability before adding funds. |
| Money/commissary | Budget confirms commissary accounting, not deposit rules | Call the jail before sending money or ordering packages. |
Prowers County Jail Booking
When a person is booked into Prowers County Jail, the sheriff records page says the jail starts a folder that contains the specific information staff use to track court appearances, medical documents, photos, and billing. After release, the folder is sorted and archived. Requests for copies are made in writing and authorized by the Undersheriff, and archived files may require staff search time.
After booking, court activity moves through Prowers County Combined Court and the 15th Judicial District Attorney. The district attorney's office is listed at 110 East Oak Street, and the combined court is at 301 S. Main, Suite 300. That downtown Lamar cluster helps explain the arrest-to-court path: jail intake, prosecutor review, bond or advisement hearings, court docket entries, and court document requests.
Prowers County Jail Programs
Official local program detail is limited, but the detention page names work release, weekends, court sentences, and courtroom security as duties coordinated by the jail administrator. The 2026 county budget also includes jail nursing service, medical bills, medical supplies and prescriptions, prisoner meals, jail monitoring lease, JBBS mental health expansion grant lines, POMH grant lines, and MAT services expense. These budget lines support discussion of operational services, but they do not publish eligibility rules for any inmate program.
- Work release
- Jail-authorized work status arranged through the jail administrator when approved.
- Weekend sentence
- Court or jail-managed custody served on weekends under local rules.
- MAT
- Medication-assisted treatment funding appears in the budget, but public eligibility details were not published.
- JBBS
- Jail Based Behavioral Services funding appears in budget lines, without a public inmate-eligibility guide located.