Locate Rifle Correctional Center Inmates

Rifle Correctional Center Overview

Rifle Correctional Center is operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections at 200 County Road 219 in Rifle. CDOC identifies it as a Level I minimum-security facility on a 75-acre rural Garfield County site in Western Colorado. Warden Bryan Coleman is listed on the official CDOC facility page. The prison began in the 1960s as a satellite labor camp and has developed into a facility focused on community-based labor service, education, vocational training, and reintegration programming.

The facility's population is not the Garfield County jail population. People held at Rifle Correctional Center are sentenced state prisoners under CDOC authority and may come from across Colorado. A person booked at Garfield County Jail after a local arrest would only move into CDOC custody after sentencing and state intake. Once that transfer occurs, lookup moves from the sheriff's PDF to CDOC Offender Search.

The official CDOC Rifle Correctional Center page provides the facility address, warden, visiting rules, and video-visit notes.

The CDOC facility source confirms that Rifle Correctional Center is a state-prison facility, not part of the county jail roster.

Rifle Correctional Center Population

Rifle Correctional Center is tied to the state minimum-security capacity framework. The research cites C.R.S. 17-25-102 and state budget materials showing a 192 operational capacity. A Colorado legislative audit and budgeting report lists Rifle Correctional Center with design capacity of 204, operational capacity of 192, facility population of 183, and vacancy rate of 4.7 percent. Those numbers describe the state prison, not the county jail.

The audit population should not be treated as a live daily count. CDOC statistics and the offender search are the better tools for current corrections status, while legislative audit figures are useful for sourced capacity context.

Rifle Correctional Center Inmate Lookup

Use Colorado DOC Offender Search for Rifle Correctional Center. The sheriff's current inmates PDF covers Garfield County Jail only and should not be used as the primary lookup for sentenced CDOC prisoners. The state locator searches across Colorado corrections custody and is the correct channel for people assigned to Rifle, transferred from another prison, on parole-related status, or in another CDOC facility.

The CDOC Offender Search interface includes DOC number, name, gender, and CAPTCHA fields.

The search image is relevant because Rifle Correctional Center lookup starts at the CDOC locator rather than a Garfield County roster PDF.

1. Open the Colorado DOC Offender Search.
2. Search by DOCNO if known, because that is the most precise identifier.
3. Use last name, first name, and gender when the DOC number is not known.
4. Complete the CAPTCHA or count prompt required to submit the search.
5. Confirm that the custody location or facility status matches Rifle Correctional Center before planning a visit or mailing funds.

Rifle Prison vs County Jail

Rifle Correctional Center often causes lookup confusion because it is physically in Garfield County but is not run by Garfield County. The operator, custody purpose, public search tool, visiting system, and population count are all state-corrections facts. Garfield County Jail is the intake point for local arrests and court holds. Rifle Correctional Center is a post-sentence CDOC placement for people already in state prison custody.

A person arrested by a Garfield County deputy or a local police department may start at the county jail, appear on the sheriff PDF, and have a case in the 9th Judicial District. If that person later receives a state-prison sentence, CDOC intake and classification decide the prison placement. Rifle may be one possible minimum-security assignment, but no public source in the research says every Garfield County sentence goes there. Bed space, custody level, program needs, and CDOC classification drive placement.

Rifle Correctional Center Contact

Use the facility switchboard and CDOC visiting staff channels for state-prison questions. County jail staff cannot approve CDOC visits, confirm a prisoner's CDOC visiting list, or update CDOC locator records. For a person recently sentenced from Garfield County court, search CDOC after transfer and intake rather than assuming an immediate Rifle assignment.

Rifle Correctional Center Visits

Rifle Correctional Center visits are prison visits, so approval and scheduling rules are stricter than county-jail video booth visits. CDOC lists in-person visiting on Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Visitors who want video visits must create a Securus Technologies account. Video visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours and no more than 7 days in advance.

Special visits should be initiated 10 days in advance if possible and require approval before they occur. Proposed visitors must already have a visiting application on file or attach the application to the special-visit request. Applications may be emailed to DOC_RCC_Visiting_Staff@state.co.us. Visiting denial reconsideration is routed to the facility contact listed by CDOC.

Rifle Correctional Center Mail and Money

The research confirms Securus for video visits but did not extract a facility-specific CDOC money-deposit fee schedule for Rifle Correctional Center. Because this is a state prison, mail, trust-account deposits, phone, and electronic communication rules should be checked through CDOC rather than through Garfield County Jail vendors such as Access Corrections or the sheriff's jail kiosk. County jail money systems do not fund a CDOC inmate trust account.

Note: Confirm current CDOC mail and deposit rules before sending funds or packages to Rifle Correctional Center.

Rifle Correctional Center Intake

Rifle Correctional Center does not book street arrests for Garfield County. Intake into the facility happens through Colorado Department of Corrections placement after conviction, sentencing, reception, classification, custody-level review, bed availability, and programming needs. A person arrested in Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Carbondale, New Castle, Silt, Parachute, or elsewhere in Garfield County normally starts in the county jail. Only after sentencing to state prison does the person enter the CDOC system.

That movement changes the public lookup. During local case processing, the Garfield County jail roster and court dockets are the main records. After CDOC transfer, the state offender search is the main public locator. Facility assignment can also change later, so a prior Rifle location should be checked again before visits, mail, or travel.

Rifle Correctional Center Programs

CDOC describes Rifle Correctional Center as a facility with community-based labor service, secondary education, vocational training, and reintegration programming intended to reduce recidivism. Its history as a satellite labor camp helps explain the minimum-security role. The facility is in rural Garfield County, but its programs serve the state-prison population assigned there, not the county pretrial population.

For local jail services such as video booth visits, scanned jail mail, booking sheets, and current Garfield County custody, use Garfield County Jail channels instead. For Rifle Correctional Center visits, applications, prison location, and CDOC status, use CDOC sources. That separation is the key fact for any inmate search involving a state prison located inside Garfield County.