colorado territorial correctional facility
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Federal judge lets prisoner’s claim proceed over strip search video shared with others
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A federal judge agreed last week that an incarcerated man’s claims could proceed against two state corrections employees, alleging they retaliated against him for complaining about recorded strip searches and also showed the video of one search to inmates and staff. Representing himself, Ryan James Griffin filed suit based on multiple strip searches he underwent…
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Federal judge sends case of prisoner’s death to jury
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A federal judge ruled last month that a jury will decide whether medical personnel at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility were negligent or deliberately indifferent to an incarcerated man whose deteriorating condition culminated in his 2017 death. Lorenzo Gabriel Flores had recently been transferred to the prison in Cañon City when he collapsed in his cell and…
