How to deposit funds, commissary, and payment options
El Paso Criminal Justice Center only accepts inmate funds by mail—send a cashier's check or money order to Bookkeeping – Inmate Funds at 2739 East Las Vegas Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80906-1522. Every deposit needs the inmate's full booking name and Admit/Booking Number, plus your complete home address (city, state, ZIP). Personal checks, cash, payroll checks, insurance checks, refund checks, and government checks aren't accepted. One deposit, one inmate, one envelope—multiple deposits in the same envelope get rejected. Expect a couple of days for mailed deposits to process and post. Need to pay bond? You can do that online with a debit or credit card, or by phone.
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Sending money to someone in custody is usually simple—until it gets delayed or returned because of a small paperwork or envelope mistake. Here's how to mail funds the way El Paso County Jail will actually process them.
El Paso County Jail accepts inmate funds by mail only—money orders or cashier's checks. Send them to the jail's bookkeeping department at: El Paso County Jail, Attn: Bookkeeping – Inmate Funds, 2739 East Las Vegas Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80906-1522. Don't mail money to the third-party personal correspondence P.O. Box in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Funds sent there won't be processed.
Mail a cashier's check or money order to Bookkeeping – Inmate Funds at 2739 East Las Vegas Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80906-1522. Include the inmate's full booking name and Admit/Booking Number, plus your full home address (city, state, ZIP). One deposit per inmate, one envelope.
No. The facility does not accept personal checks, cash, payroll, insurance, refund, state, or federal government checks for inmate funds.
Bond payments can be made online by debit or credit card, or by phone using the facility’s bond payment option at 719-390-2142.
Sending reading material to someone at El Paso County Jail? The "who ships it" rule matters as much as what you buy. Paperback books and magazines are only accepted when shipped directly from a publisher or authorized online distributor—think Barnes & Noble or Amazon. The package must include an invoice listing everything inside, and you're limited to two books or magazines per package.
After bond is set, waiting is usually the hardest part. El Paso County follows Colorado law: once the jail knows bond is ready to be posted, they have six hours to release the defendant—unless extraordinary circumstances come up.
To send a letter (or photos) to someone at El Paso County Jail, mail it to the Sheriff's Office third-party scanning vendor in Arkansas—not directly to the jail.
