 CSP is located in Fremont County, just east of Cañon City, Colorado.It is one of 25 prisons in the Colorado Department of Corrections system, and one of seven in and around Cañon City.The oldest of the seven, originally built in 1871 and predating Colorado's statehood, was the original State Penitentiary, the home of Colorado's death row, and the site of the 1929 riot.