La Junta is home to the Otero County CO Jail. This prison facility holds inmates sentenced in La Junta and Otero County Courts and courts of other cities in the Otero County area areas. Otero County CO Jail is one of several medium prisons for the State of CO. The listed address of Otero County CO Jail is 222 E 2nd St. This is facility is located in La Junta, CO, 81050-1606. This city is in Otero. Before traveling, you should always call the jail to verify your inmate is still located at this address and that they can receive visitors.
Maintaining contact with friends and family is important for the health and wellbeing of both inmates and their family. Sadly, many prisons don't make this easy. Phone charges of up to $14 a minute for long distance calls create financial burdens on inmate families who must pay for these calls. Thankfully services from Securtel help avoid these additional charges by creating a local phone number an inmate can call that will connect to any long-distance number. By eliminating the long-distance surcharge, inmates can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live. You can set this up with Securtel.coml at
inmate calls. To send mail to an inmate you can visit
send postcards. Once you get set up with call service and can communicate with your inmate, it will be easier to start making plans for visitation. CO has many types of prison facility. City Jails, County Jails, State Jails and State Penitentiaries will each have their own rules and times for visitation and even rules for sending and receiving inmate mail
Otero County CO Jail is a County Jail facility. It can be helpful to understand the type of facility because this will largely determine how inmates at Otero County CO Jail will be treated. Prisons and jails today charge for everything. You can expect to pay for soap, toothpaste, phone calls and stamps, books and even paper are all provided for a fee that is often many times higher than the price paid in the free world. Setting up an economical phone service so you can communicate without long distance charges is the first step. Then you should ask your inmate what else they will need and how you can properly send it.
Otero County CO Jail is located in the MST time zone. Ensure your call times match the correct time in your inmate's location. The current Otero County CO Jail warden is Sheriff Shawn Mobley. You can often talk directly with them at a smaller facility or write and email them at a larger one. This will naturally depend on the size and type of your prison facility. Otero County CO Jail has a current occupancy of 47. The total inmate capacity of Otero County CO Jail is officially 36. The living conditions at facilities like Otero County CO Jail are often determined by the level of overcrowding. Having to share a bed or having too many inmates in a tight space can lead to conflicts. Prison families can do a lot to help each other and their inmates in Otero County CO Jail by sharing information about this facility with other families. We make that easy. Take a moment to share your experiences at Otero County CO Jail. Everything from suggestions about the best places to stay to the most helpful local organizations can be valuable to others.