Delta Correctional Center

Delta Correctional Center is a minimum-security state prison for male inmates that is located in Delta, Colorado. It has the capacity to house 500 inmates who are in pre-release status and preparing to re-enter society.

Most of the inmates at Delta Correctional Center are in a work-release program that allow them to work outside of prison walls for federal, state, or local non-profit organizations.

Prison Insights

Visiting Hours and Rules

Before you visit an inmate at Delta Correctional Center, you first have to fill out a visiting application. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian needs to complete a Form 300-01G Authorization for Minor Child Visitation.

If you are traveling a long distance to visit or wish to request an extended visit, you have the option to submit a Special Visitation Application.

All Visiting Applications must be mailed to:

Attention: Visiting Department
Delta Correctional Center
11363 Lockhart Road
Delta, CO 81416

You must make an appointment to visit an inmate at DCC. You can do this via phone or email. 

Visiting phone: (970) 874-7614
Visiting email: [email protected] 

Visiting hours for all inmates at Delta Correctional Center are on Saturdays and Sundays between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. You are not allowed to enter the facility before 9:00 a.m. and processing of visitors ends at 2:00 p.m.

Visitation by family and friends is encouraged and can be a positive influence during an inmate’s time in prison, as well as after the inmate’s release. Regular visitation assists individuals re-entering the community by helping to preserve healthy relationships with family and friends. 

Visitor Entry, Searches, and Procedures

Adult visitors are required to present a valid picture identification prior to their admission for visiting. Acceptable identification would include:

• Driver's License with picture
• State identification card with picture
• Passport
• Military identification

Official or picture identification card is not required for visitors under age 18 unless the visitor is an emancipated minor.

All persons coming onto the grounds of DOC, their vehicles, and articles of property in their possession are subject to a search consistent with the security needs of the facility. If you refuse to submit to any entrance or visiting procedure, you will be denied visits and will be required to leave the property.

If you are bringing an infant to a visit, you are allowed to bring baby food containers, but they must be factory sealed. No open food containers or food without containers will be permitted. 

Two (2) baby bottles containing food, water, milk, or juice may be taken into the visiting area for each baby. Diaper bags may be taken into the visiting area with two (2) clean diapers, two (2) baby toys which can be easily checked for contraband, and one (1) change of clothes. The diaper bag must be left under staff supervision.

Visiting area vending machines are available for use by visitors to buy snack food items and beverages while visiting. 

You are not allowed to bring books, electronic devices, credit cards, cameras or film of any kind, briefcases, cosmetics, prescription drugs other than the amount needed for the duration of the visit and as noted on the prescription, or other items which require shakedown or search procedures that cause delays in facilitating visits.

At a minimum, electronic searches using walk through metal detectors or hand held metal detectors will be used in processing visitors. Pat searches will be conducted on as many visitors as time permits upon visitor entry. Pat searches will be conducted by staff members of the same gender.

It’s best to leave most items in your car. You must have a Photo ID, but other than that, keep it simple and just bring in your car keys and money for the vending machines. 

Dress Code

Keep it modest! You don’t want to wear revealing or see-through clothing, or anything that resembles what the inmates wear.

Mail may be rejected if it meets one or more of the following criteria:

• Attempts to send contraband into or out of any DOC operated or contract facility
• Contains cash, unauthorized personal checks, or paper money orders
• Creates a substantial danger to the emotional or mental health of an offender 
• Envelopes that are padded, cloth, plastic, cardboard, or which contain decorative stamps or stickers or has contents that cannot easily be removed and searched
• Contains postage stamps, stamped envelopes, blank stationery, blank writing paper, blank cards, blank postcards, or blank personal journals
• Contains Polaroid photos
• Contains photos/copies of photos from another DOC offender

How to Call an Inmate

You are not allowed to call an inmate at Delta Correctional Center. However, they do have access to telephones and can call you with the money on their books or by calling collect if you have an account.  For complete details on how to call an inmate in Colorado, please click here.

How to Send Money

There are three general ways to send money to your incarcerated friend or family member at Delta Correctional Center:

• Online with a credit or debit card
• Over the phone with a credit or debit card
• In person with cash at locations throughout the country

Money orders and cash sent by mail are not accepted. 

Click on one of the links below to send money to an inmate:

• JPAY
• Western Union
• GTL

​Programs For ​Inmates

Because many of the inmates at this facility are minimum-security inmates who are at the end of their sentences, most participate in work-release, which means they have jobs outside of prison walls. Also, they are in the pre-release program which prepares them for their return to society.  Parenting and GED classes are also available.

The pre-release program includes:

• Career Assessments and Exploration Tools
• KeyTrain™ and Career Skills
• Online Job Application and Internet Simulator
• Education, Training, and Apprenticeship Resources
• Job Search and Resume Writing Tools
• Computer Based Courses and Tutorials
• Statewide Community Resources

Pictures of Delta Correctional Center

Careers at Delta Correctional Center

If you are interested in a job at Delta Correctional Center, you can find information for a variety of positions on the Colorado Department of Corrections website.