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Colorado’s halfway houses will get an independent financial audit for the first time in 20 years, after a ProPublica investigation found a lack of oversight contributes to a system where more people end up incarcerated than rehabilitated.

The facilities often lack adequate employment training and effective drug treatment while residents are burdened with debt. A lack of transparency, limiting lawmakers’ ability to gauge their effectiveness, has been a barrier to reform.

Colorado’s halfway houses will get an independent financial audit for the first time in 20 years, after a ProPublica investigation found a lack of oversight contributes to a system where more people e...

Halfway house operators in Colorado have long been cited for failing to comply with standards, lapses that can lead to dangerous consequences. Yet regulators rarely force facilities to improve.

A Colorado Springs homeless shelter for families that has been trying to close since August is continuing to work on getting remaining families placed into subsidized housing programs.

Representatives from 23 different homeless-service providers in Colorado Springs, from government agencies to nonprofits, came together last week with one unified goal: find places where parents and children in ComCor

Representatives from 23 different homeless-service providers in Colorado Springs, from government agencies to nonprofits, came together last week with one unified goal: find places where parents and children in ComCor

Colorado’s halfway houses were intended to reduce recidivism, but insiders describe a system plagued by a lack of training and support, costs that can burden residents with debt and overly harsh rules that have sent many back in prison.

On the heels of the July 30 closure of Family Promise, Colorado Springs’ only dedicated emergency shelter for homeless families, another shelter catering to homeless families, City Hope, will close

Colorados criminal justice reforms are delivering a more violent mix of offenders to the states troubled community corrections system.