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Gov. Jared Polis signs bill enhancing penalties for human trafficking in Colorado
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Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed a watered-down proposal that supporters say would strengthen Colorado’s human trafficking laws. “This tough new law increases penalties for human trafficking and will make Colorado safer,” Polis said. “This bipartisan bill brought together law enforcement experts, survivors, and victim advocates to keep Coloradans safer and crackdown on human trafficking.”…
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Gov. Jared Polis signs bill enhancing penalties for human trafficking in Colorado
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Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed a watered-down proposal that supporters say would strengthen Colorado’s human trafficking laws. “This tough new law increases penalties for human trafficking and will make Colorado safer,” Polis said. “This bipartisan bill brought together law enforcement experts, survivors, and victim advocates to keep Coloradans safer and crackdown on human trafficking.”…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Polis, corrections director immune from man’s lawsuit over prison work program, appeals court rules
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Gov. Jared Polis and the former director of the Colorado Department of Corrections are immune from an incarcerated man’s lawsuit for money damages over the state’s prison work program, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. John Patrick Fletcher, who resides at Buena Vista Correctional Facility, sought roughly $2 million from Polis and Dean Williams,…
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Federal judge finds no merit to inmates’ challenge of prison work program
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A federal judge has concluded two Colorado inmates failed to plausibly allege the state’s Department of Corrections violated their rights through its prison work program, which generally requires detainees to participate or lose privileges. Although the plaintiffs repeatedly referenced Colorado voters’ 2018 decision to amend the state constitution to eliminate slavery and involuntary servitude in…
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Appeals court says prohibition on involuntary servitude not applicable to prison labor
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Colorado voters who made slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional in 2018 did not mean to abolish the state Department of Corrections’ prison labor program, the Court of Appeals ruled last week. A three-judge panel for the appellate court turned away the constitutional challenge of inmate A. Mark Lamar, who argued the general requirement that prisoners…
