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

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

Peters, 70, was sentenced to nine years behind bars in 2024 for helping an unauthorized person access sensitive county voting records and equipment. The scheme was inspired by repeatedly discredited ...

The Colorado legislature’s budget panel changed course on Wednesday, reversing its previous decision to deny the Department of Corrections $2.4 million request to pay for additional prison beds. Last ...

The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee changed course on Wednesday, reversing its previous decision to deny the Department of Corrections $2.4 million request to pay for additional prison beds. Last ...

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

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

A man who declined to give his name shoves a middle finger into the face of U.S. Senator and Colorado gubernatorial candidate Michael Bennet, as Bennet attempts to greet people on Lincoln Street ...

Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado's governor has held firm against commuting her sentence—so far.

A Colorado judge sentenced Mesa County’s former elections clerk to nine years in prison after a jury found her guilty of attempting to influence public servants and conspiracy to commit impersonation.

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in ...

In the seven years Gov. Jared Polis has held pardon and clemency powers, he’s wiped away thousands of marijuana convictions, shortened the sentence of a truck driver who killed four people and even ...