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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...
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...
A state appeals court has found that, in their efforts to convict David Bueno in a death-penalty case stemming from a 2004 prison murder, prosecutors withheld bombshell evidence that suggested they targeted the wrong man.