Days after rejecting the same request, lawmakers signed off on millions of dollars in prison bed funding as overcrowding ...

It does sound like our initial denial got some traction,” budget committee chair Rep. Emily Sirota said. “But we’ve not seen ...

Lawmakers rejected a request to add hundreds of new prison beds, saying the state must first address staffing shortages and parole backlogs.

The Colorado Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee reversed course on its denial of more funding for prison beds. The ...

Colorado’s prison system is facing a critical capacity issue, with only 161 funded general population beds remaining and a ...

Gov. Jared Polis' budget director is sounding an alarm about the need for new prison facilities amid a growing inmate ...

Colorado’s prisons will run out of beds for men in the next fiscal year unless significant changes are made to either reduce the prison population or increase capacity, a state analyst projects in a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Colorado lawmakers overhauled the state’s system of sentencing and monitoring sex offenders in 1998, supporters described the lifetime supervision ...

Libraries aren’t the only literary initiatives inside prison walls. Several Colorado groups — Unbound Authors, Colorado Radio ...