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It’s probably not often that the bail industry, Charles Koch and progressive criminal justice reformers agree.
But all three are backing a bill that would...
Nearly four months passed since a rebellion on The Denver Post's editorial pages against the paper's cost-cutting hedgefund owner made the Mile High City ground zero in a new...
Go to the website of Empowering Colorado and you won't make it past a splash page announcing that it's now an official nonprofit and is reorganizing...
Taking an extraordinary stand against the nation’s two largest private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic, Denver City Council voted late Monday not to...
Hassan Latif, who works to transition the formerly incarcerated back into society, has been on the phone nearly nonstop since the Denver City Council...
Update: The Denver City Council, without comment, approved the settlement agreement at its Monday, Sept. 30, 2019 meeting.
Denver’s Police Department has agreed to a...
The dramatic transformation from journalists on the job into witnesses for the police in a broad-daylight fatal shooting at a downtown Denver protest took...