hudson
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Small Colorado town grapples with ICE detention center opening
Thirty miles northeast of downtown Denver — where the Front Range loosens its grip, subdivisions give way to open fields and pickups outnumber Teslas — is the town of Hudson. Population 1,652. Hudson still feels like the kind of place where everybody knows the restaurant they’ll meet at for dinner. But it’s not at the…
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Hudson faces lawsuit over ICE detention facility
A nonprofit organization filed a lawsuit against the Town of Hudson Wednesday, challenging plans to reopen a former federal prison in the town as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. Together Colorado, along with Janet E. Carlson, filed the case in Colorado District Court in Weld County, alleging the town is not “powerless…
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Protesters descend on Hudson Town Council days after prison funded to reopen as ICE facility
HUDSON — Nearly 200 protesters, including current and former members of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, descended on Hudson on Wednesday, gathering outside Town Hall about an hour before the regularly scheduled town council meeting to protest the reopening of the town’s shuttered prison as an immigration detention center. Although the detention center was not…
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Appeals court agrees Lochbuie cannot challenge alleged lack of services from library district
Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that the town of Lochbuie cannot challenge the alleged lack of services its residents are receiving from a Weld County library district that has been in existence for four decades. However, a three-judge Court of Appeals panel rejected a trial judge’s decision to impose attorney fees on Lochbuie for…