Women are especially deserving of clemency consideration. Perhaps their drought of clemency grants is finally coming to an end.
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Opinion: Stan, a prison inmate, writes about conditions on the inside during the COVID-19 era
This is the story of a Black man from Denver named Stan, who has spent much of his life in prison for crimes he admits to committing in order to obtain money for drugs. Right now, Stan is an inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City. He wants to share personal information about […]
Posted inCOVID, Crime and Courts, Health, News
Four more Colorado prisoners die after suspected coronavirus infections, bringing pandemic total to 24
Four Colorado prison inmates have died since Wednesday after apparently contracting COVID-19, bringing the total number of prisoners in the state whose deaths have been linked to the coronavirus to 24. The new fatalities come even as active coronavirus cases in Colorado Department of Corrections facilities are decreasing after a spike that matched the worst […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, Health, News, Politics and Government
Now that the coronavirus vaccine is here, public health agencies must convince Coloradans to take it
Vaccines won’t end this pandemic. Vaccination will. Scrambling five letters at the end of a word is far more than semantics, say experts like Immunize Colorado’s Stephanie Wasserman. The seemingly magical public health power of a highly effective vaccine dissipates immediately if too many people refuse to actually take the vaccine. Colorado needs to get […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
As one who teaches prisoners writing and literature, I offer this to all of us living in isolation
In this Poem You Have a Door to prisoners, refugees, immigrants, aged infirm, children at their screens, quarantined, us What I need to write nowis a different sortof poem, one thatdings like a text or betterrings like a phonecall and when youanswer it isyour best friend, brother,child, something, someone likethat and everything is perfectlyfine, they […]
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Court sides with Colorado’s federal supermax prison in censorship case brought by magazine
A federal appeals court in Denver has ruled that officials at a supermax prison in Colorado sufficiently changed their policies and corrected their mistakes after refusing to distribute a magazine that provides legal information to inmates. The three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected an argument by the magazine’s […]