Colorado's prisons are understaffed and overcrowded, pushing inmates into county jails. The state's emergency plan is now ...

Colorado activated its prison population management plan, which helps the state manage capacity when prisons are operating at more than 97% full for 30 straight days ...

At issue in the civil case is whether punishments for prisoners who refuse to work are so coercive that they actually force ...

“They have changed absolutely nothing, even after Colorado voters expressed their will.” “Prison privileges are just that — ...

In 2018, voters formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude from the state Constitution with a ballot measure that ...

A 30-year-old program giving 30 incarcerated individuals in Colorado an opportunity to care for wild horses is coming to an ...

Researchers say prisoners are uniquely vulnerable to heat, unhealthy air, flooding and more because they can't easily ...

Records, interviews suggest thousands in custody have hepatitis C, but only a fraction are tested or receive treatment.

The case underscores just how extensively the principles of religious liberty have been applied in the United States.

A 30-year program in which Colorado inmates trained wild horses and burros to ready them for adoption is coming to an end after a federal agency declined to renew a contract, according to the state ...

For nearly forty years, select inmates at the correctional facility in Cañon City were taught to care for wild horses, learning to tame and saddle-train the animals as a sort of dual rehabilitation ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The only escaped Louisiana inmate who remained on the run following an audacious May jailbreak in which 10 men ...