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Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado officials reach settlement over prison inmates vulnerable to coronavirus

The Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sought a lawsuit in May against the Colorado Department of Corrections

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Inmate, staff member test positive for coronavirus at Buena Vista prison

By The Associated Press Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published

“My dinner is on the line”: Colorado Supreme Court rules it was OK for judge’s wife to sit on jury

By Lauren Irwin Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado governor defends prison system, accuses ACLU of using coronavirus to push its agenda

By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published

Counties fear being left behind as Colorado begins granting variances to its coronavirus safer-at-home order

By Sue McMillin Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado prison inmate dies after being taken to hospital with coronavirus symptoms

By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published

In Colorado prisons and jails, a piecemeal approach to the threat of coronavirus

By Daliah Singer Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published

Jared Polis can commute the sentences of Colorado’s three death row inmates at any time

The governor said the cases of the three men waiting to die by lethal injection are not “ripe” for his review because he hasn’t received any clemency requests. But he doesn’t necessarily need anything to take action.

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As Democrats try to end private prisons in Colorado, critics warn of economic ruin for rural areas

A package of supplemental spending bills includes money to reopen a shuttered state prison as a private one closes

Nicolais: How a prison gang-rape led to a glimmer of hope

As a part of a recent settlement, Colorado took a step toward addressing the unconscionable violence and abuse faced by transgender prisoners

Opinion
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Colorado settles suit by transgender inmate who alleged she was raped while held in a men’s prison

Officials said the agreement does not force broad policy changes for transgender inmates in Colorado's prisons, but the woman's attorney described it as a sign of shifting attitudes in state government toward the issue

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Colorado’s prison budget nears $1 billion as inmate population grows. Frustrated leaders wanted action yesterday.

An early uproar about a supplemental budget bill shows the intensity behind the criminal justice debate this legislative session

Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

A Colorado case inspired a U.S. Supreme Court justice to write a stinging rebuke of solitary confinement

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said solitary confinement “comes perilously close to a penal tomb”