Private prison firm the GEO Group will have to get approval from the Aurora City Council in order to expand its 400-bed immigration detention facility by an additional 1,100 beds.
Opponents of the proposal vowed to take the
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Colorado Confidential’s own Erin Rosa was tapped with a rare honorable mention award by the Newspaper Guild-CWA’s David S. Barr Award — only the second such honor conferred in its nine-year history.
Less than a month before a riot at a federal penitentiary in Florence over the weekend left two inmates dead, an official with the labor union representing the prison’s correctional workers testified before the U.S. House Commerce, Justice and Science…
At least two inmates have died as a result of a massive riot that occurred Sunday at a federal government penitentiary in Florence. The violent incident was inevitable according to staff connected to the facility.
UPDATE 3: The Bureau of Prisons has denied that a third inmate was killed in the riot, and says two inmates remaining in the hospital are not in critical condition. 9:58 a.m.
UPDATE 2: Sources now say that a…
Aurora planning commissioners unanimously approved the expansion of a privately run immigrant detention facility on Wednesday, but opponents of the plan have vowed to appeal the decision to the City Council.
Numerous critics and supporters attended the city
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The Aurora Planning Commission is set to vote this evening on whether a private prison contractor can expand a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in the city.
The GEO Group, the company that runs the ICE lockup,
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Members of law enforcement and public employees in Fremont County, home to more than a dozen prisons including the Federal Supermax facility, are requesting that members of Colorado’s congressional delegation support $2 million in federal earmark funds to synchronize emergency…
Lawmakers have already approved $109 million to combat a budget crisis at the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), according to documentation obtained by Colorado Confidential
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