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Nearly half of Colorado inmates are parole eligible but still behind...

Roughly 8,700 Colorado inmates — 43 percent of Colorado's entire 20,200-person prison population — are eligible for parole. Yet they remain behind bars. It's a situation...

Colorado activists bank on midterm blue wave to pass 2019 law...

Note: This story has been updated to include comments from 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler. Opponents of the death penalty — hoping to capitalize...

Court nixes Denver’s practice of jailing people who can’t pay $50...

A Denver court on Friday put an end to a practice by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration of jailing criminal defendants for failing to...

Salazar, Weiser debate policy in quest for Democratic attorney general nomination

As primary ballots hit mailboxes this week, a Bernie-backed progressive lawmaker and a well-funded mainstream law professor are competing for the Democratic nomination for...

Data privacy concerns quietly sink remote notary bill in last days...

A proposed law that would allow Colorado companies to notarize documents online seemed like a done deal; the bill passed the Senate with near-unanimous...

ACLU gets ‘class action’ status in ICE lawsuit against El Paso...

A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado challenging the way the El Paso County Sheriff works with federal immigration officials and...

CO Supreme Court denies El Paso sheriff’s appeal in ICE detainer...

The Colorado Supreme Court has denied the El Paso County Sheriff's appeal of an order demanding that he stop detaining inmates for immigration authorities. Sheriff...

El Paso County sheriff vows to fight judge’s order blocking him...

A sheriff in Colorado is pledging to fight a judge’s recent order that stops him from holding individuals beyond their release dates for immigration...

ACLU suit accuses El Paso County sheriff of illegally detaining prisoners...

The ACLU of Colorado on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder, accusing him of illegally detaining prisoners...

Wiretap: After Barcelona, Europe again agonizing over how to stop terrorist...

The vehicle that killed at least 13 people on Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas was at least the sixth deadly van attack in Europe in...
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