Tag: Criminal Justice
Colorado DA George Brauchler explains ‘Mass incarceration is a myth’ tweet
Colorado's most high-profile district attorney, George Brauchler, has put the phrase "mass incarceration" on trial in the court of public opinion.
The conservative prosecutor who...
Criminalizing homelessness comes at staggering cost
Eric Schwartz knows the cost of anti-homeless laws.
Every time he's ticketed for illegal camping in Boulder, he spends three days in jail. Tickets are $250 each,...
Racial disparity in marijuana arrests; overall charges down
Criminal justice reform, particularly for communities of color, was one of the principal reasons Coloradans voted two-to-one to legalize marijuana. Now, just over a...
Eyewitness ID reform: Moving right along in Colorado
When State Sen. Ellen Roberts summoned the only person signed up to testify against the eyewitness identification reform bill, there was no response. He didn't show.
Oklahoma to use secretly-sourced, experimental lethal injections in spite of court...
Oklahoma revealed plans Tuesday to use an experimental mix of lethal injections from a secret source to execute two men later this month. Despite a ruling that secrecy around Oklahoma’s purchases of lethal injections is unconstitutional, the state’s attorney general’s office still won’t identify the source of the drugs.
State’s fiscal forecast is up; movement on expanding train transit and...
Notes from the 70th day of the Colorado legislative session.
Lawyers for kids, support for struggling schools, doctors for the hinterlands
Legislators kept it quick and rote on the floor this sunny morning, the last day of February, but yesterday's committee hearings were interesting.
House Judiciary says no to Colorado debtors’ prisons
DENVER- Linda Roberts stole canned salmon from a Safeway just over a year ago. She was caught and brought before Wheat Ridge's municipal court, which...
Dutch DNA duo helps free another innocent man
The Dutch scientists who helped exonerate Tim Masters have done it again. DNA experts Richard and Selma Eikelenboom found the evidence that freed David Camm, who was convicted of killing his wife and two kids in 2000.