Colorado has significantly lowered its prison population this year, but state analysts expect it’ll starting trending upward again soon. After peaking at 23,000 in 2009, the state prison ...

A Colorado woman working as a fake psychologist in multiple state departments will go to prison. A Denver judge on Monday sentenced Shannon McShane to four years in the Colorado Department of ...

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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.

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.) ...

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 ...

Mentally ill people are wasting away in Colorado jails and crowding the state’s prisons, paving the way for disasters by making correctional workers de-facto practitioners in what critics say is ...

She also spent several years at the Colorado State Mental Health Hospital and counseled inmates while working for the Colorado Department of Corrections. McShane worked on Chad Kullhem's custody case.