Stephanie Patterson’s son was arrested in March 2022 and booked into Boulder County Jail when he was just 20 years old. Today, there’s still no in-person visitation for those incarcerated at the Boulder County Jail aside from professional visits like those with attorneys. Jails and prisons across the county shut down in-person visitation in 2020 due to COVID protocols. The average stay in the Boulder County Jail is 22 days, but that number gets skewed by many who are there just one night. Since the pandemic, the jail has doubled its space for in-person visitation to allow for 10 partition-separated, no-contact slots at once.