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Criminal Justice

Do You Know Who Your Judges Are?

Colorado voters this fall will consider Amendment 40, which will bring up appellate judges for recall elections more often, and impose a ten year...

Douglas County Still Doesn’t Get It

The general assembly hereby finds that the issuance and enforcement of protection orders are of paramount importance . . . . Colorado Revised Statutes Section...

Drug War Out?

The funny thing about politicians setting priorities is that they are happy to tell you what they are making more important, but reluctant to...

Getting The Facts On Crime In Denver

Yesterday, Lou Kilzer with the Rocky Mountain News published an article about the city of Denver's new policing strategy. The report detailed efforts by...

Few Complaints In Westwood

As a follow up to the Confidential's July 28th story Arrests Rising In Denver, new information from the Denver Police Department (DPD) revels the...

Rocky Makes Way For Jail

The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News have had a joint operating agreement since 2001, but next week, it will begin to materialize in...

State Rep Engages Blogosphere on Prisons

State Representative Morgan Carroll, already known for having an active blog of her own, has taken her concerns about Colorado's out of control prison...

Aspen, Glenwood Springs and TASERs

While the ACLU is suing the Garfield County Sheriff's Department for failing to address TASER abuse and other problems with abusive sheriff's deputies in...

Union, McFayden: More Prison Staff Needed

Dem Rep. Buffie McFayden of Pueblo and members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local Union gathered yesterday at the Florence Correctional Complex...

Ken Salazar On Crack

Ken Salazar was one of a bipartisan group of four Senators who introduced the Drug Sentencing Reform Act of 2006 aimed at reducing the...
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