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Three weeks into Colorado’s push for social distancing, halfway houses struggle...
Group meetings. Board games. Communal dining. Sleeping in bunk beds. New residents coming in and out.
Some residents in Colorado’s halfway houses say they’ve seen...
Polis signals he wants private prisons like Kit Carson kept shut...
Gov. Jared Polis is seeking permission from lawmakers that would make it easier for his administration to deny the transfer of out-of-state inmates into...
The Polis administration wants to open a state prison ASAP. Here’s...
Colorado lawmakers are scrambling to nail down a plan to create space in the state’s prison system after the prison company GEO Group announced...
Denver averts halfway-house crisis — for now The city council just...
There will be no mass reincarceration of hundreds of Denver halfway-house residents, the city council ensured Monday.
The council voted unanimously to approve one contract...
Mayor shames city council for private-prison divorce as Denver charts a...
It appears some early fears created by the Denver City Council’s Aug. 5 decision to sever ties with controversial halfway-house providers can for now...
Denver “optimistic” halfway house residents won’t be returned to jail, prison...
Denver officials say they are hopeful they can reach a near-term agreement to keep six privately run halfway houses open into 2020.
As for what...
Bombshell Denver vote to kill halfway-house contracts has ex-inmates scared, officials...
Hassan Latif, who works to transition the formerly incarcerated back into society, has been on the phone nearly nonstop since the Denver City Council...
In stunner, conflicted Denver City Council kills contracts with private prison...
Taking an extraordinary stand against the nation’s two largest private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic, Denver City Council voted late Monday not to...