After over a year, Colorado prisons will allow in-person visits again â with lots of precautions A photograph of the sign outside the Sterling Correctional Facility in Logan County. (Sterling Journal-Advocate) Itâs been over a year since thousands of incarcerated people in Colorado have seen their loved ones face to face. All state prisons halted in-person visitation in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which tore itâs way through correctional facilities across the state. The Colorado Department of Corrections announced on Wednesday that it will begin allowing in person visits at all but two of the stateâs prisons â with lots of rules and regulations in place.Â