Colorado prison backlogs for sex offender rehabilitation lead to missed parole dates, others getting out without treatment

What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state ...
Cañon City Daily Record

Colorado men’s prisons will run out space in next fiscal year, state warns

The Colorado Department of Corrections can house about 15,077 men across state and privately run prisons. The male population ...
The Gazette

Colorado’s prison population management plan activated due to overcrowding

Colorado Department of Corrections Correctional Officer David Aldana walks along the third level of cell house #8 at the Fremont Correctional Facility during a formal count at the prison in Canon City ...
Cañon City Daily Record

A Colorado dentist raised alarm about mercury fillings in prisoners. He was fired hours later, whistleblower lawsuit alleges.

Dentist Charles Hardin grew concerned that the prison system was over-relying on mercury amalgam when “safer alternative ...
FOX31 Denver

NYC man sentenced to Colorado prison after ‘Bachelor’ star was licked, spurring stabbing

DENVER (KDVR) — A New York City man will spend half a decade in Colorado prison after he was convicted of stabbing the boyfriend of a “The Bachelor” and “Bachelor in Paradise” contestant. On Wednesday ...

Colorado officials reject Tina Peters prison transfer request by Trump administration

The DOC statement suggests federal officials aren’t eligible to request transfers of inmates in state prison under Colorado’s ...