CTCF is the oldest prison in the Colorado DOC system.

The Colorado DOC system only has two infirmaries, one of which is located in CTCF.

[3] In 1993, the Colorado State Penitentiary opened, and death row moved there.

As of 2012, the Sterling Correctional Facility housed Colorado's death row prisoners.

[1] Capital punishment was abolished in Colorado in 2020; although the law did not apply retroactively, the sentences of the three remaining inmates on death row were commuted to life in prison by governor Jared Polis.