Author: CHRISTOPHER OSHER
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Colorado Watch | Criminal Injustice: The Gazette launches ongoing look at Colorado’s criminal justice system
The Gazette today launches its first installment in an ongoing look at Colorado’s criminal justice system. Crime and punishment in the state has been in tumult for years. Politicians, policymakers and corrections administrators have tried to find ways to reduce prison populations, scale back punishments and focus on rehabilitation with a raft of reforms, including…
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Colorado Attorney General says investigation of Juul likely to produce impact, action
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said this week that his office continues to investigate the sales practices of vaping products by Juul Labs Inc., including whether the company targeted children as a lucrative market. Because the investigation is ongoing, Weiser said he could not give specifics. But he stressed that in the coming months he…
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Informant: 211 Crew members predicted Clements would be murdered before assassination
The day before the assassination of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements, two members of the white supremacist gang, the 211 Crew, revealed during a prison cell discussion details about how the killing would go down. “They were anxious,” the informant recounted to investigators with the Colorado Department of Corrections and the El Paso County Sheriff’s…
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Lawsuit: USOPC medical boss fired for blowing whistle in wake of Nassar sex assault scandal
The Colorado Springs-based United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee fired a high-ranking employee there in May because he blew the whistle on the organization’s failure to protect a 15-year-old paralympic athlete from sexual abuse and raising other issues, a lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. Dr. William Moreau. File photo. The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Court,…
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COVER STORY | Denver’s community corrections approach risks dispersing an increasingly violent offender population
The Denver City Council last year cut ties with private halfway house operators because council members feared the system warehoused too many offenders in isolated industrial areas, unsuited for rehabilitation. Council members say they plan to replace the large industrially-zoned buildings that private prison companies operated with a network of smaller halfway houses placed in…
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Past president of state Police Officers Foundation given deferred sentence in theft from charity
Former Denver Sheriff Department Division Chief Frank Gale earlier this month received a deferred sentence and four years of probation under a plea agreement with Denver prosecutors to resolve felony charges alleging he stole a vehicle and about $50,000 from a charity assisting refugees. The deferred sentence allows Gale to ask the judge to toss…