Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) is located in

Sterling, Colorado Sterling is a home rule municipality and the county seat and most populous municipality of Logan County, Colorado, United States. Sterling is the principal city of the Sterling, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city population was 13,735 ...

, and is the largest prison in the

Colorado Department of Corrections The Colorado Department of Corrections is the principal department of the Colorado state government that operates the state prisons. It has its headquarters in the Springs Office Park in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, near Colorad ...

system. State statute dictated that prisoners with death sentences were to be held at the administrative segregation facility at the

Colorado State Penitentiary Colorado State Penitentiary (commonly abbreviated CSP) is a Level V maximum security prison in the U.S. state of Colorado. The facility is part of the state's East Cañon Complex, together with six other state correctional facilities of various ...

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Colorado Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 15, 2010. In 2011, the State of Colorado moved its death row prisoners to Sterling to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Nathan Dunlap, a death row inmate. Dunlap had complained about the state's lack of outdoor exercise facilities at Colorado State Penitentiary. The inmates returned to Colorado State Penitentiary in 2015 after the outdoor access issue was resolved.

Notable Inmates

* Allen Andrade, first conviction for a hate crime involving a transgender victim * Troy Graves, serial rapist and murderer * Scott Lee Kimball, serial killer imprisoned at Sterling until 2017 escape attempt * Marc Patrick O’Leary, serial rapist *Peter Cichuniec, former police officer convicted in the Killing of Elijah McClain

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External links

Sterling Correctional Facility - Department of CorrectionsUS Engineering
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