Colorado State Penitentiary News

Rooms and hallways that once were alive with the sounds of everyday life now echo with only memories at the former Colorado Women's Correctional Facility.

Older mustangs, being held at the Salt Lake Wild Horse and Burro Center in Herriman, stretch their legs Tuesday.

Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote ; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29.

Can killing Colorado's death penalty help the state catch murderers? by Erica Grossman At 4:30 p.m. on Oct.

Few things in the justice system raise passions like the death penalty. District Attorney candidates state their stands during their campaigns, Web sites in the thousands have been launched, candlelight vigils ...

Review: Illustrations from the Inside & The Real Cost of Prisons Posted February 18, 2009 by Josh MacPhee Go to this URL for the review which includes images from the books.

Feb 7, 2009 5:55 pm US/Mountain Lockdowns at the state's prisons has risen the past year as officials deal with increased gang activity and budget cuts affecting education and other programs aimed at changing ...

A summary of Gov. Bill Ritter's proposed budget cuts for the next fiscal year beginning July 1: Work force: - Keep vacant or eliminate more than 540 full-time jobs.

Knowing that even modest job gains are hard to come by, Canon City Mayor Frank Jaquez figures his community can wait a few extra months for the new 500-worker Colorado State Penitentiary II to open.

The state is considering delaying the opening of the soon-to-be-completed Colorado State Penitentiary II project, but only by a few months.

A lot of phrases have been used to characterize the state of the Colorado Legislature in the past decade.