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Tag: Pete Lee
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...
Update | Effort to recall Senate President Leroy Garcia falls short...
Update, Oct. 18: The recall of Senate President Leroy Garcia failed on Friday, after organizers fell short by more than 13,386 signatures. The Secretary...
Colorado Democratic senators pump brakes on paid family leave program Senators...
An internal split among Democratic senators scuttled lawmakers' fifth attempt at passing a long sought-after paid family and medical leave program this legislative session....
Democrats seek to scrub criminal records to prevent prolonged punishment “At...
Heather McBroom's stint with drug addiction follows her to this day.
She said she was studying to be a teacher at Pikes Peak Community...
Citing flaws in Colorado’s criminal justice system, lawmakers move to repeal...
In 2004, Alex Perez, then in prison on a murder conviction, was charged with killing a fellow inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility. He...
For Colorado citizens, a deal with prosecutors could mean a clean...
Here’s a process that plays out hundreds of times every year in Colorado: A person is charged with a low-level crime such as simple...
Lawmakers eye drug sentencing reforms to ease projected prison population growth...
Editors note: House Democrats introduced a bill to change the penalties for drug possession on March 22.
The department that oversees Colorado’s prisons is again asking the...
It’s a race to win over independents in this El Paso...
COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s a Wednesday morning and the line outside the El Paso County Judicial Building wraps around the block. The entrance is...
Lawmakers put the kibosh on leasing Huerfano prison, call for sentencing...
The Department of Corrections wants to reopen a shuttered prison in Walsenburg to house an expected rise in inmates next year, but lawmakers aren’t...
ALEC in Colorado, Day 1: Protest and policy making
It might not be the smoke-filled rooms of old, where politicians hammered out deals in secret— but that’s only because smoking isn’t allowed in...