Our History

Southwest Colorado Community Corrections Center Inc. (S.W.C.C.C.C, Inc.) was incorporated in 1979 as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation, to assume the legal operation of Hilltop House Community Corrections. Hilltop House was formed as an agency operated by La Plata County to provide Community Corrections Services through a federal grant in 1976 as one of the first community corrections 929programs in Colorado. The primary focus of the program was to assist Department of Corrections offenders who were returning to this area and to provide prison diversion for local residents. Diversion placements remained restricted to the 6th Judicial District (Archuleta, La Plata and San Juan Counties) until 1982 when the first contracts were initiated with the 22nd Judicial District. The program moved three times and occupied rental homes in the community. In 1984 a permanent facility was constructed at 1050 Avenida Del Sol on leased property provided by the city. The facility opened in May 1984 with an initial occupancy of 20 beds and a design capacity of 30 beds. This capacity was expanded in 1998 to 40 residential beds and in 2007 to its current capacity of 54 residential beds.