Crowley County Correctional Facility

Crowley County Correctional Facility
Location 6564 CO-96
Olney Springs, Colorado
Status open
Security class medium
Capacity 1894
Opened 2003
Managed by Corrections Corporation of America

The Crowley County Correctional Facility is a medium-security, privately owned and operated state prison for men located in Olney Springs, Crowley County, Colorado. Corrections Corporation of America runs it under contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections.[1]

The facility opened in 2003 and houses 1,894 Colorado state inmates at medium security.

In 2004 the facility housed both Colorado inmates and out-of-state inmates under contracts with the Wyoming Department of Corrections and the Washington State Department of Corrections. The causes of a six-hour riot in July 2004 were put down partly to understaffing (only 47 employees on duty to supervise more than 1100 prisoners) and partly to the treatment of the Washington prisoners. [2] A class-action suit was filed on behalf of 200 prisoners who had not joined in the riot, but who had been mistreated afterward. The suit resulted in a $600,000 settlement in 2013. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Crowley County Correctional Facility". Corrections Corporation of America. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Prendergast, Alan. "Crowley prison riot: New details of unheeded warnings emerge in epic lawsuit" (21 December 2011). Westword.com. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "$600,000 Settlement Announced In Crowley Prison Riot". Denver Colorado CBS Channel 4. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2016.

Coordinates: 38°09′43″N 103°57′31″W / 38.162052°N 103.958581°W / 38.162052; -103.958581

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