Tag: Criminal Justice
‘Ban the Box’ bill would make it harder for employers to...
Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 7. Since then it's moved through the legislative process at the Capitol with little resistance....
Colorado to pay Clarence Moses-EL $2M for the 28 years he...
Clarence Moses-EL, a Denver man who spent nearly half his life in prison on a wrongful rape and assault conviction, will be awarded about...
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...
Attorney General-elect Weiser will seek settlement in Moses-EL’s $1.9M wrongful-conviction claim...
Colorado’s incoming attorney general says he hopes to settle a lawsuit filed by a Denver man who spent 28 years in prison on a...
What does it mean that 35% of Colorado voted against banning...
Colorado voters were asked this election whether they wanted to ban slavery once and for all in the state.
Just under two-thirds of voters supported...
Amendment A: What’s the argument against Colorado’s ballot measure to ban...
It’s not easy to find people who oppose the effort to finally, formally ban slavery in Colorado, but they do exist.
Two Western Slope district...
It’s a race to win over independents in this El Paso...
COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s a Wednesday morning and the line outside the El Paso County Judicial Building wraps around the block. The entrance is...
New report highlights racial disparity in Colorado’s booming prison population The...
In 2017, roughly one in 28 adult black men in Colorado was in prison. Put another way, African Americans made up 18 percent of...
New data collection program will test bias in Denver policing
In an effort to better understand and address complaints of biased policing in Denver, officers in the northeast part of the city will begin...
A sheriff’s dilemma in the face of Trump’s immigration agenda
This story is the second in a series that examines how a rural Colorado community is grappling with the uncertainties around immigration. Read the first...