The Polis administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the state’s prison system, just as ...

Frustrated Colorado lawmakers gave a “huge slap on the wrist” to the state’s correctional system and its leaders Wednesday, rejecting more than $20 million in funding requests. They also vented their ...

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 ...

Colorado state Rep. Jamie Jackson, an Aurora Democrat, listens to Majority Leader Monica Duran on the House floor March 3, 2026, at the Colorado Capitol. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline) ...

For the second time four months, the Colorado Department of Corrections is asking lawmakers for more money. The request comes as the state's prisons are overflowing with inmates, and the department is ...

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 ...

After a physical altercation at a Colorado prison in January, the Colorado Department of Corrections has determined that ...

Under a proposed Colorado law, people leaving prison would be entitled to identification documents and $100 in a release allowance, two benefits bill proponents say are not reliably distributed by the ...