colorado department of corrections
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Appeals court finds state wrongly blocked ex-worker’s evidence in termination challenge
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that the Colorado State Personnel Board wrongly blocked a former employee from submitting documentation to challenge his termination, even though he followed the board’s instructions to obtain the materials. Eric Strumpf was the budget and business operations director for the Colorado Department of Corrections. He requested emergency sick leave…
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Colorado legislators eye giving inmates more earned time to ease prison overcrowding
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Colorado lawmakers are proposing several changes to a state law that sponsors say would help ease overcrowding and reduce strain on state facilities. The proposal would mandate data reporting, as well require certain actions, including transitioning inmates from community corrections, considering “alternate sanctions” for technical parole violations, and giving inmates more earned time. In 2018,…
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Colorado lawmakers reverse course, OK $2.4M funding for additional prison beds
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The Colorado legislature’s budget panel changed course on Wednesday, reversing its previous decision to deny the Department of Corrections $2.4 million request to pay for additional prison beds. Last week, JBC members voted, 4-2, to deny the department’s request, with Democrats arguing that they have yet to see the department make any substantial effort to…
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Colorado Joint Budget Committee rejects DOC’s $2.4M request for more beds
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The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for additional prison beds, citing the department’s lack of a plan to address its ongoing overcrowding problems. In September, the committee approved the DOC’s $2.8 million supplemental request for additional beds following the governor’s implementation of the Prison…
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Federal judge declines to dismiss claims against prison officials for seizure-related death
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A federal judge declined last month to dismiss the claims against numerous prison employees for a man’s in-custody death following several seizures and his repeated ingestion of liquified pain-numbing medication. The mother and minor children of Victor Esquivel sued the state’s corrections director, prison supervisors, corrections officers, medical employees and a medical staffing firm after…
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Tina Peters will remain in state custody, Colorado corrections agency says
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Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will remain in state custody amid a push by the federal corrections department to transfer her to its jurisdiction, the Colorado Department of Corrections said Tuesday. The Colorado agency does not have any plans to transfer Peters to federal custody at this time, a state spokesperson told 9News. Peters…
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Trump-backed Tina Peters faces state resistance in transfer to federal custody
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Colorado’s attorney general said he opposes efforts to move former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from a state prison to a federal one, though he refused to comment on the specifics. In a statement to Colorado Politics on Monday, Phil Weiser said there is “no basis” for a request to transfer Peters, who was convicted…
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Federal judge dismisses challenge to prison policy forbidding assistance with certain legal claims
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A federal judge on Friday dismissed a formerly incarcerated man’s challenge to Colorado’s prison policy that forbids the use of library resources for the pursuit of certain claims generally deemed frivolous. Robert Wayne Robinson sued the law librarian at the Buena Vista Correctional Facility and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. He…
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Joint Budget Committee greenlights $2.8M for Colorado prisons amid overcrowding crisis
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The General Assembly’s Joint Budget Committee has approved nearly $3 million in supplemental funding for the Colorado Department of Corrections to cover the cost of additional prison beds amid an ongoing crisis of prison overcrowding. Last month, DOC facilities reached a vacancy level of 3% for 30 consecutive days, prompting the governor to implement the…
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Lee fire grows to 5th largest in Colorado history
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Lee, Elk and Oak fires all continue to burn Monday
