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Colorado House committee advances bill to make visitation a right for inmates
Lawmakers hope to put into practice research drawing parallels between family visits and decreases in inmate misconduct and ...
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Colorado prison inmates make $5M in phone calls a year. It's a budget buster
From their prison cells, Colorado inmates can make unlimited phone calls on state-issued tablets with taxpayers increasingly ...
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Local lawmakers urge to keep Rifle Correctional Center open
Lawmakers and local officials are urging the Colorado Joint Budget Committee (JBC) to reconsider a proposal to close the ...
Federal judge once again dismisses lawsuit of prison employee offended by DEI training
A federal judge dismissed a second lawsuit on Monday brought by a former Colorado Department of Corrections employee who was ...
Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars
They feared inmate privileges could be taken away or ... Regardless of their function, jails and prisons must keep their ...
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This is why Tennessee's prison population is increasing, according to experts
The increase mirrored an overall 2% rise nationwide, but Tennessee had one of the largest gains, with only Colorado ... inmates are serving their time in one of the state’s four private prisons ...
Trump looks to enforce trans inmate crackdown as new acting federal prisons chief tapped
William W. Lothrop was named interim Bureau of Prisons director after Colette Peters' resignation, as the president aims to ...
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Colorado’s Haunted Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum is a Must-Visit
One of Colorado's most interesting historical museums can be found in Cripple Creek. The two-story brick building on Bennett ...
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Proposal to close Rifle Correctional Center sparks concern
The Rifle Correctional Center is at risk of closing as state officials consider cost-cutting measures to address a budget deficit. A December proposal to the Colorado General Assembly’s Joint Budget ...
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Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars
They feared inmate privileges could be taken ... Regardless of their function, jails and prisons must keep their occupants safe. We believe Colorado’s current carceral infrastructure does ...