Sidebar by Ed Quillen
Prisons – November 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Chaffee County’s old and crowded jail is hardly a unique problem.
Lake County Sheriff David Duarte runs a jail built with the Leadville courthouse in 1958. In 1995, he averaged 14.9 inmates per day; that rose to 20 in 1996, “and fourteen is overcrowding this jail.” He’s had to house inmates in Clear Creek County, and “we’ve got a committee looking into a new jail.”