Lawmakers reduced the state limit on the number of kids and teens sent to juvenile detention centers just two years ago. Now the Division of Youth Services is asking to bump it up.
Jennifer Brown
Jen is a co-founder and reporter at The Sun, where she writes about mental health, child welfare and social justice issues.
Her first journalism job was at The Hungry Horse News in her home state of Montana, before moving on to reporting jobs in Texas and Oklahoma. She worked for 13 years at The Denver Post, including several years on the investigative projects team, before helping create The Sun in 2018.
Jen is a graduate of the University of Montana and loves hiking, skiing and watching her kids' sports.
Email: jennifer@coloradosun.com Twitter: @jenbrowncolo
Posted inPolitics and Government
Colorado horses are being slaughtered abroad for human consumption. A new bill could shut down the industry.
An investigation by animal welfare groups followed horses from auctions to holding facilities to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico, where they were exported for human consumption
Posted inHealth
Another Colorado hospital stops letting women get their tubes tied, renewing questions about reproductive rights
Colorado has one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the country, but health care advocates say women in rural and mountain towns often lack reproductive health care access
Posted inCrime and Courts
Juvenile violent crime is rising in Colorado, making up 41% of youth corrections admissions
Researchers are looking into the link between violent crime and teenagers spending more time virtually connected but physically alone
Posted inHealth
Colorado is in a mental health crisis. Psychologists want to help by being allowed to prescribe medication.
Medical doctors and psychiatrists say it’s dangerous to let non-medically trained psychologists prescribe mental health medications.
Posted inOutdoors
Colorado ski areas open day cares to attract high country workers in child care desert
Steamboat Resort and Breckenridge Resort opened child care centers for the kids of their employees this season. In Aspen, the resort is helping pay for new child care center slots in the community.
Posted inPolitics and Government
Denver bought one-way bus tickets for 1,900 migrants. Here’s where they were going.
Some of the top destinations were Chicago, New York City, Atlanta, Miami and Dallas
Posted inNews
Denver announces 14-day shelter limit for migrants as Colorado governor stops busing them to other states
Jared Polis was criticized by fellow Democratic mayors of Chicago and New York City for sending migrants on chartered buses
Posted inColoradans
2DRTY4CO: DMV releases list of more than 140 rejected Colorado license plates
Personalized license plate requests — which have been rejected for being offensive, vulgar and rude — are weeded out by an automatic flagging system
Posted inPolitics and Government
Colorado governor says his plan to bus migrants out of Denver is “night and day” compared with GOP governors
The monthlong influx of migrants to Denver has cost more than $1.4 million so far, and Polis announced plans to spend $5 million