Colorado’s full prisons trigger measures designed to speed releases for first time

Colorado’s prisons are so full that the Department of Corrections for the first time has triggered a legislatively mandated ...

Colorado’s prisons are full. A 2018 law requires efforts to reduce their population.

Criminal justice reform advocates are pressing Colorado corrections officials for more details on their efforts to reduce the ...
Denver Gazette

Colorado’s prison population management plan activated due to overcrowding

Ongoing issues within the Colorado Department of Corrections have prompted the state to trigger its Prison Population ...
6abc News

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes assaulted in prison

DENVER -- Officials say an inmate assaulted theater shooter James Holmes and a security officer at the Colorado State Penitentiary. Adrienne Jacobson, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of ...

Colorado Department of Corrections paid Cotter brothers over $50,000 for services

The Colorado Department of Corrections paid Cotter Family Funeral Services $51,849 in a contract from January 2024 through June 2025.

Colorado funeral director who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses withdraws guilty plea

A Colorado funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses withdrew his guilty plea Friday and will go to trial, ...