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As Colorado legislators, lobbyists, public health officials and law enforcement seek ways to confront the fentanyl crisis, efforts are complicated by the synthetic opioids deadly and increasingly omnipresent nature and

As Colorado legislators, lobbyists, public health officials and law enforcement seek ways to confront the fentanyl crisis, efforts are complicated by the synthetic opioids deadly and increasingly omnipresent nature and

Millions have signed a petition calling for Colorado Governor Jared Polis to grant clemency to a truck driver convicted in a deadly crash on I-70 in 2019.

Colorado victim services have a serious diversity problem, according to a Tuesday report from the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition.

The unprecedented hesitancy from young attorneys and law school graduates to prosecute is due to “the poisonous attitude toward law enforcement that has been created in the past year-and-a-half.”

State courts across the country have gradually reopened for in-person proceedings, although many have yet to reach their ...

The El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Should paddleboarding while drunk be a misdemeanor? Should it be treated differently than boating while drunk? What about not registering a vehicle — is that a crime, or should that just be a ticket? What about juvenile fishing without a license? Last fall, an unlikely group of bedfellows — community activists and public defenders and prosecutors — began meeting to go line by line through all of Colorado’s 1,100 misdem...

David Zalubowski/AP A year after passing a sweeping police accountability bill with bipartisan support, its a very different climate for criminal justice reform at the Capitol this year. Amid a flurry of police brutality protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, criminal justice reform advocates at the Colorado legislature seized the moment last summer and passed one of the most sweeping police reform laws in the country.  Advocates and lawmakers hoped to nudge those efforts forward thi...

Six months after widespread racial justice protests catalyzed the Colorado General Assembly to pass sweeping reforms to policing and law enforcement accountability, the Democratic majority is planning to push the envelope further. “The entire General Assembly, especially and particularly my side of the aisle — the Democratic side of the aisle — have taken up the mantra of law enforcement accountability,” said Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, one of the chief proponents of Senate...

At 84 years old, Anthony Martinez is nearly blind and deaf. He can no longer walk on his own and his kidneys are failing. He struggles to write his own name, his niece says, a sign of brain deterioration after more than 30 years in prison. And though he seemingly poses little threat to anyone, he remains confined at Sterling Correctional Facility, among those at highest risk of falling victim to COVID-19, which has sickened hundreds of his fellow inmates and killing six at the northeast Colora...