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

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

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

For the second time four months, the Colorado Department of Corrections is asking lawmakers for more money. The request comes ...

Legislators working on Colorado’s budget are considering an increase for daily per-person costs for private prisons. State ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Peters, 70, was sentenced to nine years behind bars in October 2024 for helping an unauthorized person access sensitive ...

Former county clerk Tina Peters and another inmate got in some sort of confrontation over the weekend at a Colorado prison ...

A man who declined to give his name shoves a middle finger into the face of U.S. Senator and Colorado gubernatorial candidate ...