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Stonewalled: Kiowa County sheriffs won’t explain why they killed Zach Gifford

Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative - August 31, 2020

Triggered: How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent

Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative | Keith Cerny, Alamosa Valley Courier - June 27, 2020

Attorneys in a Colorado death penalty case have filed a motion for the court to protect prospective jurors from coronavirus. (Photo by Getty Images)

Colorado attorneys argue jury selection amid pandemic putting people at ‘needless and severe risk’...

Criminal Justice Susan Greene - March 12, 2020

Lawyers for a Colorado death penalty defendant say the court is subjecting scores of prospective jurors “to needless and severe risk” of contracting the...

Illustration credit: Mark Castillo with graphic elements from www.vecteezy.com

News organizations ask court to unseal arrest affidavit for stepmother facing murder charge

Criminal Justice Jeffrey Roberts, CFOIC Executive Director - March 10, 2020

A consortium of news organizations Monday asked an El Paso County District Court judge to unseal the affidavit that outlines why authorities arrested Letecia...

Centennial South, a Colorado prison shuttered in 2012, reopens Lawmakers authorized Centennial South's reopening...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - March 7, 2020

Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed into law a bill to reopen Centennial South Correctional Facility in Cañon City, marking a new chapter in...

Leaving a halfway house can land you in prison. That could soon change The...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - February 27, 2020

In 2010, Jenny Chestnut said she was found guilty of shoplifting and sentenced to serve three years in a halfway house in Greeley. After...

The state Capitol on Jan. 8, 2020, the opening day of the session. (Photo by John Herrick)

Death penalty passes the House after hours of debate focused on victims Pro-capital punishment...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - February 26, 2020

Update: This story was originally published on Feb. 25, 2020, when the House passed the death penalty repeal bill by a voice vote. It...

Hundreds gather at the Crowne Plaza Convention Center late Saturday night to see Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks.

Buttigieg comes to Colorado’s most diverse city, draws mostly white crowd ‘I think...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - February 23, 2020

On Saturday, Pete Buttigieg left Las Vegas, Nevada, where he came in third in the Democratic caucus, and flew to Colorado for a rally...

Mary Claire Mulligan has been defending clients facing the death penalty for a decade. "It can be very disheartening to not actually win anything in ten years." (Photo by Evan Semón)

Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a wary hope for...

Criminal Justice Susan Greene - February 21, 2020

It was late December 2019 and defense lawyer Mary Claire Mulligan spent the last week of the decade accompanying a client to his murder...

New data provides a glimpse into Colorado’s county jails Several counties, including Jefferson and...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - February 19, 2020

On Jan. 1, there were at least 9,802 people locked up in Colorado’s 57 jails. At least 409 of them were held in solitary...

Activists march for missing and murdered Native American women at the Women's March California 2019 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images)

Native American women are missing and murdered. Will the federal government act? More than...

Criminal Justice Allison Winter, States Newsroom - February 18, 2020

WASHINGTON — Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was 22, eight months pregnant, and looking forward to her baby shower the following day when she went missing on...

Why Colorado sent an inmate to one of America’s most dangerous prisons In January,...

Criminal Justice John Herrick - February 14, 2020

Rats and roaches. Food trays strewn across the floor. Inmates pulling feces out of clogged toilets. That’s how Colorado inmate Jimmy Valanzuela described his living...

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