The man Longmont police named as a suspect nearly three years ago in the March 2018 disappearance of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia has been charged with her kidnapping and murder, according to court documents.
After over a year, Colorado prisons will allow in-person visits again â with lots of precautions
A photograph of the sign outside the Sterling Correctional Facility in Logan County. (Sterling Journal-Advocate)
Itâs been over a year since thousands of incarcerated people in Colorado have seen their loved ones face to face.
All state prisons halted in-person visitation in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which tore itâs way through correctional facilities across the state. The Colorado Department of Corrections announced on Wednesday that it will begin allowing in person visits at all but two of the stateâs prisons â with lots of rules and regulations in place.Â
Trying a defendant for the same crime for a second time, known as double jeopardy, doesn’t apply if that first trial was held in a foreign county, the Colorado Court
Chaffee County reached a vaccination rate of 53.5 percent of the total county population fully vaccinated for COVID-19. A total of 18,946 first and second vaccinations have been administered in
Chaffee County reached a vaccination rate of 53.5 percent of the total county population fully vaccinated for COVID-19. A total of 18,946 first and second vaccinations have been administered in the county thus far.
Case numbers are up in Chaffee County, in part due to two ongoing outbreaks at Buena Vista Correctional Complex and Chaffee County Detention Center.
The outbreak at the correctional complex is the fourth event since the pandemic began. Since the current outbreak began April 20, seven inmates and six staff members have tested positive for the virus.
At the detention center in Salida, an outbreak which began April 4, has yielded 24 inmate cases, seven staff cases. One of the inmate cases resulted in death.