american civil liberties union of colorado
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State vows again to reform Colorado’s youth corrections system
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State officials on Thursday again promised to implement meaningful changes in Colorado’s youth corrections system, after years of surging violence, drug contraband seizures and controversies over staff use of isolation cells and restraint devices. The state will abandon a model based on large groups of incarcerated youths and punitive compliance measures, they pledged, in favor…
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Denver is told ‘no’ again on its policy banning suspects from parks
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Authorities can’t ban people from a public place, like a park, merely on the hunch they’re up to no good. That’s the upshot of a Denver District Court ruling this week against a Denver policy that authorized police to banish suspected drug peddlers from city parks. It’s the latest turn in a saga that began…
