incarceration
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Colorado Supreme Court tiptoes around prior edict forbidding prison plus probation
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Five years ago, the Colorado Supreme Court interpreted state law to prohibit judges from imposing a sentence of prison plus probation in a single criminal case. But on Wednesday, the justices appeared to endorse the idea that judges could resentence affected defendants in a fashion that preserves the same — illegal — punishment. In its 2019 decision…
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Divided appeals court takes no issue with lack of child welfare services to incarcerated father
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that even if a child welfare caseworker could have rehabilitated a father by facilitating visitation time and drug treatment while he was incarcerated, the lack of services was excusable because the man likely would not have taken advantage of them anyway. By 2-1, a three-judge panel of the Court…
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Judge dismisses part of Boston Marathon bomber’s lawsuit challenging prison restrictions
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A federal judge has dismissed some of the First Amendment claims brought by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing four people in connection with the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and who is now challenging his prison restrictions in Colorado. Tsarnaev, who is facing a death sentence, is currently at the United States Penitentiary – Administrative…
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As families recount stories of heartbreak, legislators mull contours of response to fentanyl crisis
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There were few constants through Keith’s short life. His family – his parents Trisha and Jason Davidson, and sister Shaelynn – was one. His curiosity – constantly tinkering with electronics, fascination with space, admiration for Elon Musk – was another. But so, too, was the failure of institutions that were in a position to help him as…
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Denver to open ‘gender responsive’ jail space for women
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A report in January from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice says women made up 9.9 percent of the state’s inmate population last year – the highest proportion in nine years. And over the next six years, while the male population behind bars in Colorado is projected to climb 37 percent, the female inmate population is…
