Republican activist Shires gets probation, fine in fraud case
Scott Shires, the Republican activist who in 2004 reportedly recruited current U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer to serve on the board of the privately held National Alternative Fuel Foundation (NAFF), was sentenced today to a year of probation and ordered to pay a $3,450 fine on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file corporate tax returns.">Scott Shires, the Republican activist who in 2004 reportedly recruited current U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer to serve on the board of the privately held National Alternative Fuel Foundation (NAFF), was sentenced today to a year of probation and ordered to pay a $3,450 fine on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file corporate tax returns.
Letter: Prison expansion set for federal inmates
The planned 1,100-bed expansion of a for-profit prison holding immigration detainees in Aurora will be reserved only for inmates of the federal government, according to...
‘Cuban 5’ member in federal pen will get new sentence
A man who was serving a life sentence in Colorado over charges of conspiring to spy for the Cuban government will be resentenced following...
The for-profit role in immigrant detention deaths
Recent media reports have detailed more than 80 people who have died while in the custody of federal immigration authorities since 2003, but names...
Western Slope Round Up
Here's a glimpse of what happened west of the Continental Divide last week.
While growth charges ahead, Basalt says whoa
Saying growth has...
U.S. prison population continues to rise
There's a surge happening, but it's not in Iraq. Instead it's in the millions of people being put behind bars in the United States.
According...
Getting Tased, Part 2: Beware of the ‘excited delirium’
(Note: This story is the second feature in a two-part in a series. For more information, check out Getting Tased, Part One: How Taser...
Workers gear up to battle the seedy underbelly of the DNC
Colorado groups working to stem the tide of human trafficking, which often leads underaged girls and boys into prostitution, are gearing up for the...
Getting Tased
A Taser shock has been called the “longest five seconds of your life.” It incapacitates the nervous system. It causes a loss of bowel...
Union: McCain Snubs Correctional Workers
The federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a budget crisis, and correctional officers working in the nation's prisons are concerned that understaffing is jeopardizing...