A former deputy in Colorado is facing multiple charges after he was accused of choking an inmate last October.

The family of a former inmate in Colorado is filing a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the Jefferson County Jail.

The Department of Justice, in a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, says it will determine whether the constitutional rights of ...

Colorado’s penal system is intricate, containing state-run prisons, local jails, and federal units. The Colorado Department of Corrections inmate facility manages state confinement, while specific ...

In 2022, a lawsuit filed on behalf of two Colorado prisoners argued that Amendment A, a successful 2018 ballot measure that eliminated a provision in the Colorado ...

FLORENCE COLO. (KOAA) — An inmate died at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Florence after he was found unresponsive, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ says 57-year-old ...

A coalition of 17 county sheriffs urged Gov. Jared Polis to resolve the Department of Corrections’ backlog in inmate transfers and increase what the local officials described as the state’s inadequate ...

PUEBLO, Colo. — A Pueblo County Jail inmate's brief taste of freedom will come at a cost after he escaped two days before he was set to be released. The Pueblo County Sheriff's Office said in a ...

45-year-old Kegan Van Vliet, the escaped inmate from Fremont County Detention Center, was recaptured overnight in Colorado Springs, according to Fremont County Sheriff's Office (FCSO). At 10 p.m. on ...

The Trump administration is canceling a longtime partnership with the state of Colorado that uses prison inmates to train wild horses removed from federal rangelands to make the animals more suitable ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KXRM) — The Colorado ...