The more than 1,200 inmates inside the El Paso County jail on any given day were not provided masks until last week, when the jail became the site of Colorado's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.

In the past 24 hours, 64 more inmates at the El Paso County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19 -- bringing the current number of infected inmates to 72. Latest U.S.

The morgue in El Paso is so overwhelmed by the number of people dying from COVID-19 that inmates from the county jail are being brought in to assist with the overflow of bodies awaiting autopsy.

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- The number of positive coronavirus cases at the El Paso County Jail has dropped dramatically in just two days. Jail officials said it's because inmates under ...

Amid a pandemic that’s roiled incarcerated populations across Colorado, people held at the El Paso County jail have lost an age-old comfort — the ability to keep letters, cards and photos in ...

Nearly 700 El Paso County jail inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, the sheriff's office announced Tuesday, making Colorado Springs home to the state’s largest outbreak among inmates since the ...

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego confirmed with ABC-7 that trustee inmates are helping morgue personnel who are overwhelmed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The El Paso County Jail in Downtown has a capacity of 1,040 inmates. The county also can hold as many as 1,440 inmates at the Jail Annex in the East Montana area.

More than a dozen inmates at the El Paso County Jail were transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, and the Sheriff’s Office said they are release who in an effort toward ...

13 Investigates learned that 27 inmates have died in the El Paso County jail since 2018. Three of the deaths were reported as homicides, four as accidents, six as suicides, and fourteen as natural ...

The El Paso County Detention Facility can hold around 1,000 inmates and the Jail Annex has a capacity for 1,880. Currently, the El Paso County Detention Facility is undergoing renovations that ...