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Colorado attorneys argue jury selection amid pandemic putting people at ‘needless and severe risk’...
Lawyers for a Colorado death penalty defendant say the court is subjecting scores of prospective jurors “to needless and severe risk” of contracting the...
News organizations ask court to unseal arrest affidavit for stepmother facing murder charge
A consortium of news organizations Monday asked an El Paso County District Court judge to unseal the affidavit that outlines why authorities arrested Letecia...
Centennial South, a Colorado prison shuttered in 2012, reopens Lawmakers authorized Centennial South's reopening...
Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed into law a bill to reopen Centennial South Correctional Facility in Cañon City, marking a new chapter in...
Leaving a halfway house can land you in prison. That could soon change The...
In 2010, Jenny Chestnut said she was found guilty of shoplifting and sentenced to serve three years in a halfway house in Greeley. After...
Death penalty passes the House after hours of debate focused on victims Pro-capital punishment...
Update: This story was originally published on Feb. 25, 2020, when the House passed the death penalty repeal bill by a voice vote. It...
Buttigieg comes to Colorado’s most diverse city, draws mostly white crowd ‘I think...
On Saturday, Pete Buttigieg left Las Vegas, Nevada, where he came in third in the Democratic caucus, and flew to Colorado for a rally...
Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a wary hope for...
It was late December 2019 and defense lawyer Mary Claire Mulligan spent the last week of the decade accompanying a client to his murder...
New data provides a glimpse into Colorado’s county jails Several counties, including Jefferson and...
On Jan. 1, there were at least 9,802 people locked up in Colorado’s 57 jails. At least 409 of them were held in solitary...
Native American women are missing and murdered. Will the federal government act? More than...
WASHINGTON — Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was 22, eight months pregnant, and looking forward to her baby shower the following day when she went missing on...
Why Colorado sent an inmate to one of America’s most dangerous prisons In January,...
Rats and roaches. Food trays strewn across the floor. Inmates pulling feces out of clogged toilets. That’s how Colorado inmate Jimmy Valanzuela described his living...