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Federal judge orders Weld County sheriff to protect health of jail inmates during pandemic...
A federal judge Monday ruled the treatment of inmates in the Weld County jail during the COVID-19 pandemic violated constitutional protections against cruel and...
Reformers want Polis to commute the sentences of more inmates during pandemic Criminal justice...
Criminal justice reformers are calling on Gov. Jared Polis to commute the sentences of more inmates in Colorado's prisons in response to the COVID-19...
Colorado’s prison population is dropping, but not fast enough, advocates say Criminal justice advocates...
Colorado's prison population has dropped to the lowest level since 2004, according to reports from the Colorado Department of Corrections.
As of April 30, the...
Greene: VA hospital celebrates and sends off its first COVID-patient “I needed this. ......
Friends and family of the Rev. Terrance “Big T” Hughes’ gathered outside the Aurora VA hospital doorway Wednesday afternoon. It'd been many weeks since...
No shirt, no shoes — no mask? — no service Ouray County business owners...
OURAY – For the last couple of weeks, the mannequin in the window of Mountain Fever Shirts & Gifts has sported attire befitting the...
ICE moves hundreds of detainees in and out of the Aurora ICE detention facility...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved 776 detainees into a privately-run detention center in Aurora in the approximate eight weeks since the first case...
Greene: Denver pastor and COVID victim to leave hospital after seven weeks on ventilator...
Big T is back.
I am over the moon to report that the Rev. Terrance Hughes, after about seven weeks on a ventilator with severe,...
Littwin: As country begins to reopen, Fauci asks how much death we’re willing to...
You can call the reopening of America’s businesses an experiment. I’ll call it a gamble, and we know what the stakes are.
I’ll let Dr....
Coloradans still have questions about filing for COVID-19 unemployment. We have some answers. Six...
More than 358,000 Coloradans have filed for unemployment over the past six weeks, in an unprecedented wave that reflects the nationwide job-loss and economic...
Polis places moratorium on evictions through May Housing advocates say the order brings needed...
Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order suspending evictions late Thursday night, joining most states in the U.S. to temporarily outlaw removing renters from...