Colorado lawmakers are proposing several changes to a state law that sponsors say would help ease overcrowding and reduce ...

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

The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for ...

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

In a 4-2 vote, the Democrats on the JBC voted in a bloc to deny the dollars, complaining that the DOC lacked a plan to ...

The visitors parking lot of the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center, a state prison within the Colorado Department of Corrections, taken on Feb. 6, 2020. (Moe Clark/Colorado Newsline) Criminal ...

A request by Colorado prisons to expand capacity by 900 beds was denied Wednesday by state lawmakers. The Colorado Department ...

Former county clerk Tina Peters and another inmate got in some sort of confrontation over the weekend at a Colorado prison where she is serving her sentence.

DENVER (KDVR) — The Weld County Sheriff’s Office, alongside 16 other sheriffs in Colorado, wrote to Gov. Jared Polis calling for a resolution to the Colorado Department of Corrections’ inmate transfer ...

DENVER — When the Colorado Department of Corrections recently went back and reviewed how its parole officers were gauging the risk levels of some of the roughly 8,000 parolees in the state, it found ...

Colorado authorities are continuing to search for leads in the Tuesday evening murder of the head of the state’s prison system, and police in El Paso County, Colo., say they have little evidence so ...

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters speaks during the “Colorado Election Truth Rally” on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at the Capitol Building in Denver, Colo. (Timothy Hurst/The Denver Gazette) Former Mesa ...