Tag: administrative segregation
The Gray Box: The inhumanity of solitary confinement
This story, written by Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene, is among the work for which she is being honored this week by the ACLU...
Legal settlement ends Colorado’s practice of denying inmates fresh air
Although fresh air and sunlight come free in Colorado, they have long been denied to hundreds of state prisoners, some of whom have gone...
Lawmakers try to stop bleeding money on Colorado’s multimillion-dollar empty prison
For nearly three years the 948 solitary confinement cells of Colorado State Penitentiary II have stood empty outside Canon City, a hollow and expensive reminder of a corrections practice the state has largely abandoned. Now, lawmakers say they’re working on a plan to put the prison to use.
‘Finally out and among the living’
Jack Powers is an inmate in the federal Bureau of Prisons convicted of bank robbery and escaping from prison. He spent more than a...
Lawmaker will seek to abolish solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners
State Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, D-Adams County, is sponsoring a bill to find alternatives to the use of so-called administrative segregation for prisoners who have been diagnosed with one of a wide array of serious psychological disorders.
Ebel Friend: Suicide Note Shows Parolee ‘Ruined’ by Solitary, Bent on...
About two weeks before his death, Evan Ebel -- suspect in last month’s murders of pizza delivery man Nate Leon and Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements -- wrote a suicide note to a longtime friend who says Ebel was unhinged by his abrupt release from solitary confinement and seeking revenge for years of humiliation and torture behind bars.