Colorado’s House Democrats pressed budget writers Tuesday over a nearly $70 million increase for the Department of ...

(The Center Square) - Legislators working on Colorado’s budget are considering an increase for daily per-person costs for private prisons. State Sen. Judy Amabile, D-Boulder, provided a budget ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the visitors parking lot of the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, a state prison within the Colorado Department of ...

The Polis administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the state’s prison system, just as Colorado’s legislators are bracing for a worsening fiscal outlook. The request sets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wynn Howell, Colorado state director for the Working Families Party, speaks at a rally in support of a lawsuit over coerced prison ...

Colorado lawmakers are considering whether to carve a new path out of prison for some inmates who have served at least two decades behind bars. In a second-look sentencing bill introduced in late ...

A Denver judge on Friday ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating a 2018 amendment to the state constitution by requiring people in state prisons to work under the threat ...