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COVID-19

Three weeks into Colorado’s push for social distancing, halfway houses struggle...

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Group meetings. Board games. Communal dining. Sleeping in bunk beds. New residents coming in and out.  Some residents in Colorado’s halfway houses say they’ve seen...
2020 Legislative Session

Polis signals he wants private prisons like Kit Carson kept shut...

John Herrick -
Gov. Jared Polis is seeking permission from lawmakers that would make it easier for his administration to deny the transfer of out-of-state inmates into...
2020 Legislative Session

The Polis administration wants to open a state prison ASAP. Here’s...

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Colorado lawmakers are scrambling to nail down a plan to create space in the state’s prison system after the prison company GEO Group announced...
Criminal Justice

Denver averts halfway-house crisis — for now The city council just...

Alex Burness -
There will be no mass reincarceration of hundreds of Denver halfway-house residents, the city council ensured Monday. The council voted unanimously to approve one contract...
Denver

Mayor shames city council for private-prison divorce as Denver charts a...

Alex Burness -
It appears some early fears created by the Denver City Council’s Aug. 5 decision to sever ties with controversial halfway-house providers can for now...
Troy Riggs, director of Denver's Department of Public Safety, testifies on Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, before the state's committee on prison population management. Riggs says he's optimistic that some 500-plus Denverites won't be sent back to jail or prison as a result of the City Council's decision to kill contracts with two private companies that run halfway houses in the city. (Photo by Alex Burness)
Criminal Justice

Denver “optimistic” halfway house residents won’t be returned to jail, prison...

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Denver officials say they are hopeful they can reach a near-term agreement to keep six privately run halfway houses open into 2020.  As for what...
Criminal Justice

Bombshell Denver vote to kill halfway-house contracts has ex-inmates scared, officials...

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Hassan Latif, who works to transition the formerly incarcerated back into society, has been on the phone nearly nonstop since the Denver City Council...
More than 1,000 people marched on July 12, 2019 in protest of the detention of immigrants in private prisons, including the detention facility in Aurora, Colo. run by GEO Group.
Criminal Justice

In stunner, conflicted Denver City Council kills contracts with private prison...

Alex Burness -
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...

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