A Denver judge sentenced Shannon McShane to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for influencing a public ...

A Colorado prison inmate died after coming to another inmate's defense during a March 2023 brawl that erupted during what ... eight inmates were in the Colorado State Penitentiary's A-3 ...

Instead, the Colorado Department of Corrections is carrying out mandated changes to the state’s system under a 2019 class-action lawsuit filed in Denver District Court, which originated with ...

Colorado is on track to become the first state to accommodate transgender women inmates in the state penitentiary after a class action lawsuit alleged discrimination, assault, rape and harassment.

From their prison cells, Colorado inmates can make unlimited phone calls on state-issued tablets with taxpayers increasingly footing the bill. By the numbers: The cost of cellphones for inmates is ...

Recently, a settlement of $1.1 million was reached and finalized between employees of Colorado DOC and John Snorksy, an inmate serving a 30-year prison sentence for an attempted kidnapping in ...

Two Colorado federal inmates were sentenced for their roles in the death of another inmate in 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis cut short the prison sentences of four inmates and pardoned 20 people Thursday, including a former Colorado State Patrol trooper who guarded the state Capitol and pleaded ...

Five years ago this month, Colorado became the first state in modern U.S. history to enact this constitutional change. (Rhode Island banned slavery without exception in 1842.) ...

Nor does it state how suspected alcohol made it into the hands of inmates. CBS Colorado has requested that information from the DOC. From left to right, Charles Porter, Turell Lee and Justin Sanders.