Prowers County Jail Overview
Prowers County Jail, also described by the county as Prowers County Sheriff's Office Detention, is operated by the Prowers County Sheriff's Office. The jail is located at 103 East Oak Street in Lamar, Colorado. For Cheyenne County, the important local point is jurisdictional: the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office Resources page links its Detentions resource to the official Prowers County detention page, while the Cheyenne sheriff's site explains that Cheyenne County does not operate a jail or dispatch center.
That makes Prowers County Jail the practical local detention route for many Cheyenne County inmate-search questions, but not a Cheyenne County jail in the physical or ownership sense. A recent arrest may begin with Cheyenne County law enforcement, court activity may proceed through Colorado courts, and detention verification may require Prowers County jail contact. Sentenced felony custody is separate and should be checked through the Colorado Department of Corrections Offender Search.
The official Prowers detention page captured for this project is the relevant local source. The Prowers County Sheriff's detention page is shown below because it is the detention destination linked from Cheyenne County sheriff resources.
The image is useful because it anchors this page to the official Prowers County detention source rather than a commercial inmate-listing site. It does not show a public inmate-search form, so the lookup steps below rely on direct facility contact, records channels, state court records, VINELink Colorado, and statewide or federal locators when the custody type changes.
Prowers County Jail Capacity and Population
The official local detention page reviewed for this build did not publish a current rated-capacity number. For sourced population context, the research uses the Vera Institute county incarceration-trends dataset for Prowers County. Vera reports a 2024 average jail population of 31.72 for Prowers County, with male and female average figures of 27.19 and 4.98 respectively. Those figures are dataset measures, not a live headcount from the jail desk.
Vera's older Prowers County capacity fields place the jail near the mid-50-bed range in several years: 55.92 in 2014, 55.74 in 2015, 55.95 in 2016, 55.97 in 2017, 55.88 in 2018, and 53.6 in 2019. Later rows reviewed for the research do not provide the same current capacity field, so this page avoids calling 56 beds a current official capacity. Use the Prowers County jail phone line for current housing and availability questions.
| Year | Average jail population | Source note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54.50 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
| 2020 | 43.38 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
| 2021 | 40.97 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
| 2022 | 30.94 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
| 2023 | 33.53 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
| 2024 | 31.72 | Vera Prowers County dataset row |
How to Look Up an Inmate at Prowers County Jail
No public searchable roster was found on the official Prowers County detention page during the research. That matters for Cheyenne County users because a search for a Cheyenne County jail roster may lead to third-party pages that are incomplete, stale, or not tied to the agency holding the person. The better lookup chain is to start with direct jail contact, then use public-records and court channels for records that are not available through a roster.
- Call Prowers County Jail at 719-336-8050 and ask whether the person is currently held there, what identifying information is needed, and whether any records request is required.
- If the jail does not release the requested information by phone, use the Prowers County Sheriff's records page and public-records process for records that can lawfully be released.
- Check VINELink Colorado for custody notifications where participating data is available. Treat it as a notification service, not a complete booking database.
- Search Colorado Judicial Branch dockets for filed court events after an arrest. Booking allegations and formal court charges can differ.
- If the person has been sentenced to state prison, use the CDOC Offender Search instead of the county jail path.
- For federal or immigration custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
When calling or requesting records, have the person's full name, date of birth if known, arresting agency, approximate arrest date, and any court case number. Prowers County Jail may be able to confirm current custody more quickly than a records office can produce older paperwork, but record release depends on Colorado law, agency policy, and whether the record is open at the time of the request.
Prowers County Jail Address and Contact
Use the Prowers County jail contact for current detention questions, especially before traveling from Cheyenne County to Lamar. Use the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office for Cheyenne County law-enforcement contact and local incident routing, but do not expect Cheyenne County to publish a separate jail roster or run a separate detention desk.
Prowers County Jail
103 East Oak Street
Lamar, CO 81052
719-336-8050
Call to confirm custody, visiting rules, records routing, and current facility procedures.
Visiting Someone at Prowers County Jail
The official crawlable sources reviewed for this project did not provide a complete current visitation schedule, video-visitation vendor, visitor ID rule, dress code, child-visitor policy, or attorney-visit procedure for Prowers County Jail. Because those rules can change and the page did not provide a public schedule to quote, the responsible instruction is to call the jail before travel and verify the rule that applies to the specific person in custody.
| Topic | Current page finding | What to verify |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | Schedule not located in official crawlable text | Day, time, sign-up process, cancellation rules |
| Visitor ID | Specific ID rule not located | Photo ID requirements and visitor approval |
| Video visits | Vendor and schedule not located | Whether video visits are offered and how to register |
| Children | Child-visitor rule not located | Adult accompaniment, approval, and documents |
| Attorney visits | Procedure not located | Professional-visit scheduling and screening |
Visitors should also ask about parking, entrance screening, prohibited items, and accessibility before leaving Cheyenne County. The research did not locate a jail-specific visitor parking map, fee, or ADA entrance instruction, so those details should be confirmed directly with the facility.
Mail, Phone, and Money at Prowers County Jail
The research did not locate reliable official crawlable text naming a mail format, phone provider, video provider, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, or fee table for Prowers County Jail. This page therefore does not name common jail vendors or publish unsupported deposit instructions. Before mailing anything or sending money, confirm the inmate name format, whether an ID or booking number is required, the mailing address format, accepted contents, and any current deposit method directly with the jail.
| Service | Status in research | Verification step |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address format | Not located | Ask jail whether to include inmate ID, housing, or booking number |
| Phone calls | Vendor/pricing not located | Ask jail how calls are set up and billed |
| Video visitation | Vendor/schedule not located | Ask whether remote visits are available |
| Commissary | Vendor/fees not located | Ask how commissary accounts are funded |
| Money deposits | Vendor/fees not located | Use only methods confirmed by the jail or linked official pages |
If the person has moved from county jail to Colorado Department of Corrections custody, mail, visiting, and money rules change. CDOC has its own statewide procedures for sentenced prisoners, and those rules should not be mixed with Prowers County Jail instructions.
Booking and Intake at Prowers County Jail
Prowers County Jail is a local detention setting for pretrial detainees and short local sentences. For a Cheyenne County arrest, the earliest paperwork may involve the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office or another local agency, while custody may be routed to a surrounding-county jail under contract. Intake can involve identity confirmation, arrest paperwork, property handling, housing assignment, medical screening, and bond or court processing, but the official research did not publish a step-by-step Prowers booking manual.
For court follow-up, use Colorado Judicial Branch records rather than assuming the jail record is the final list of charges. Booking charges can reflect the arresting officer's initial allegations. Formal charges are filed or amended through the prosecutor and the court. A person may also be released, transferred, sentenced to CDOC, held for another agency, or moved to a different contract facility, which is why direct verification is important.
When Prowers County Jail Is Not the Right Search
Cheyenne County inmate-search questions often cross custody systems. Prowers County Jail is the official detention route linked by Cheyenne County sheriff resources, but it is not a state prison, federal prison, immigration detention center, or court-record database. If a person has finished the local jail stage and entered a state sentence, the correct search is Colorado Department of Corrections. If the person is in federal sentenced custody, use BOP. If the person is in immigration custody, use ICE ODLS.
Federal pretrial custody in Colorado is handled through the U.S. Marshals Service District of Colorado and may involve contract housing outside Cheyenne County. ICE and federal systems generally do not publish county-style mugshot galleries. VINELink Colorado can help with notifications where data is available, but it should be paired with the responsible agency or court source when a custody decision matters.
About Prowers County Jail
Prowers County Jail is best understood here as a regional detention resource for Cheyenne County users because Cheyenne County's own sheriff site points detention traffic outward. The facility's operator is Prowers County Sheriff's Office, and the jail is in Lamar rather than Cheyenne Wells. Local program details, medical request procedures, mental-health request processes, grievances, religious services, commissary options, and attorney-visit rules were not fully published in the official sources reviewed, so those topics should be confirmed directly with the jail.
No official Cheyenne County jail-specific consent decree, overcrowding order, new jail project, or death-in-custody item was located in the research materials. That absence should not be read as a condition report. Jail conditions and grievances are facility-administered, and public records may be requestable under Colorado public-records procedures when a record is open for release.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting, mail, and deposit rules with Prowers County Jail before traveling or sending money.